9jaFinder: How Nigeria’s Leading PropTech Platform Is Solving the Accommodation Crisis

Finding a place to live in Nigeria has, for decades, meant the same exhausting routine: walking street to street, asking strangers if they know a landlord, collecting agent phone numbers one by one, and hoping the “available room” you were told about yesterday is still available today. 9jaFinder was built to end that routine.

9jaFinder has emerged as one of Nigeria’s leading property technology (PropTech) platforms, pooling verified listings — rentals, shortlets, sales, and commercial space — into one searchable place, rather than leaving every search to chance, word of mouth, and whoever picks up the phone first.

The accommodation problem 9jaFinder solves

Since its launch, 9jaFinder has set out to fix a specific, very ordinary, very widespread problem: accommodation discovery in Nigeria has never been structured. A few things it directly addresses:

• It blocks unverified properties. Every listing on 9jaFinder is tied to a verified agent or landlord profile, cutting down on the fake listings, outdated prices and non-existent “available” rooms that plague informal property searches.
• It ends the street-to-street search. Instead of physically walking neighborhoods asking around, users search, filter by budget and location, and compare multiple options from one screen.
• It replaces the agent-contact-book problem. Nobody has to save and juggle a dozen different agents’ phone numbers anymore — every listing already carries a verified contact, in one place.
• It pools listings by location. 9jaFinder organizes real inventory across Lagos, Abuja, Ondo State, Ibadan, Ilorin, and Ekiti — and is actively expanding into more Nigerian cities and states.

More than a rental app

9jaFinder has grown past being just a rentals platform. Today it covers Rent, Shortlet, Sale, Commercial, and Declutter listings, alongside newer categories like Artisan, Education, Places, and Jobs — positioning it as a broader local discovery platform for the things Nigerians search for daily, not just houses.

Built on trust

Every listing is tied to a verified agent or landlord profile. Users can message an agent directly, book an inspection, and ask questions before handing over any money — and once a tenancy begins, 9jaFinder’s in-app wallet lets tenants pay rent, track their tenancy, and file maintenance requests straight from their dashboard, instead of chasing a landlord on WhatsApp every month.

The founder behind it

9jaFinder was developed by Adewebs Technologies, a software company founded and owned by Adebo Adegboye David — one of Africa’s young technopreneurs building real, working software for everyday African problems rather than theoretical ones.

9jaFinder is one piece of a wider portfolio Adebo and his team at Adewebs Technologies have built and scaled: IdentifyOrg (identity verification infrastructure), ChatPaddi (an indigenous messaging alternative to WhatsApp Business), Spousora (verified matchmaking), Edu230 (school management), and Salesgit (AI-powered commerce) — each one solving a different, concrete problem for African users, under one company.

That pattern — identify a real, unstructured problem African users live with daily, then ship working software for it — is the throughline across Adewebs Technologies’ growing portfolio, with 9jaFinder standing as one of its clearest, most tangible examples: an everyday accommodation problem, turned into a platform already serving renters, landlords and agents across six Nigerian states and growing.

Get 9jaFinder

9jaFinder is available now:

• Website: 9jafinder.com — search and list properties directly from your browser.
• Android: Download 9jaFinder on Google Play.
• iOS: An iOS app is in development and coming soon to the App Store.

Have a property to list or manage? List it on 9jaFinder in minutes, or become a verified agent and grow your portfolio with secure in-app wallet payments on every transaction.