ABSTRACT The study focused on maintenance management practice in public and private properties, (a case study of selected public and private housing estates) in Lagos state, Nigeria. To achieve this, case study of 10 selected housing estates were carried out by means of structured questionnaires. A total number of 200 questionnaires were administered to the selected estates and 141 were returned and used for the analysis, and this gave a response rate of 70.5%. Th...