Assessment of Mentorship Opportunities for Real Estate Developers in Ghana
Keywords:
Challenges, mentorship, mentors, mentees, real estate developers, opportunitiesAbstract
Effective mentorship usually guides and steers young professionals towards path of success in their professional career development. Majority of infant real estate developers in the developing countries including Ghana do not tap into mentorship opportunity to sharpen their professional tools due to the limited knowledge they have in the concept of mentorship. In spite of the limited empirical research conducted in real estate mentorship, this study serves to break grounds by assessing the opportunities and challenges existing in real estate industry. To achieve this purpose, study materials such as books, academic articles, theses and other documented sources were gathered to examine literature on the subject matter. Interviews were further conducted among some selected real estate developers in Ghana with the basis to establish the key facts and factors associated with the challenges and opportunities mentorship provides to mentees. It was discovered through this study that majority of the real estate developers (mentees) lack funds to undertake projects due to the difficulty they face to secure affordable funding. They also frequently face land litigation issues. The study suggests that the emerging real estate developers in Ghana could build their capacities to remedy such findings through mentorship opportunities available to them.
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