Lagos Life houses: every home, the rent, and what it costs to move in

Lagos Life has 5 homes, from a face-me-I-face-you in Mushin to a mansion on Banana Island — and the rent runs from ₦2,400 a week to ₦1,500,000. Rent is charged every Saturday, and moving house is not just the weekly figure: it costs three weeks of rent to get through the door. Here is every number.

1. All five homes, side by side

The rent column is what the game charges you every Saturday. The move-in column is what it costs to relocate there later — for the two homes you cannot start in.

What each home actually is

2. What you can pick at creation

Character creation only offers the homes that are not marked move-in only, and each one comes with a different opening balance — the trade is smaller rent against less cash:

Two things follow from that table. The first is that Lekki is not a free choice: the option exists at creation but is only selectable if the birth lottery gave you a Nepo Baby, who gets the flat with the rent already paid. The second is that the bigger starting balance does not make Yaba the better opener — a larger rent is a larger weekly deadline, and the deadline is the thing that actually hurts.

If you have not rolled your start yet, that choice is a separate decision with its own maths — see Nepo Baby vs LAPO Baby.

3. How Saturday rent actually works

Rent is weekly, it is charged on Saturday, and it is the only hard deadline in the early game. The game takes it from your balance that morning; the clock on it is 09:00.

Three consequences that are easy to miss:

• Unpaid rent becomes arrears, not a reset. What you could not pay is carried as money you owe, and the game will not let you move house while it is outstanding.
• The landlord turns up. The game has a landlord event that demands the arrears at your door, with two options: beg for more time (a Charisma check) or pay whatever you have towards it.
• Eviction exists. The game carries an evicted outcome that moves you back into a face-me-I-face-you in Mushin — with your possessions filtered down to what fits a 6×6 room. Losing the furniture is the expensive part, not losing the address.

Running out of money on a Saturday is therefore the worst thing that can happen to a young Sim, which is why the skills page and the shift guide both come back to the same point: raise income before you raise your rent.

4. Moving up: the 3× rule

Relocating is priced as three weeks of rent, split into two parts, and the split matters:

The advance is not a fee — it is your first two Saturdays already paid, so the first two weeks in a new home cost you nothing on the rent line. The agent fee is simply gone. Practically: stepping up from Mushin to Yaba needs ₦18,000 in hand, and Mushin to Lekki Phase 1 needs ₦51,000.

Beyond the cash, the game blocks a move while any of these is true:

• You still owe rent — the arrears have to be cleared first.
• You are mid-shift. The game tells you to finish your shift first.
• You are travelling. The game tells you to wait until you arrive.

5. The order to do things in

1. Start in Mushin. ₦2,400 a week is the smallest weekly deadline in the game, and the ₦16,000 you start with covers more than six Saturdays of it.
2. Get the cheapest career income moving first. A promotion roughly doubles your per-shift pay — see the shift guide for what gates it.
3. Buy a side business before you buy a better address. The POS stand at ₦500,000 pays back its own price in about 111 shifts, which no house does — the full ranking is on the money guide.
4. Then move. Three weeks of rent in hand, arrears at zero, and not mid-shift.
5. Leave Ikoyi and Banana Island until last. Both come unfurnished, so the purchase price is the smaller half of the bill.

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