In real estate, we often focus on location and price.
But there’s a more important question many people fail to ask:
“What type of land am I actually buying?”
This is where the conversation of Government Allocation vs Priv
Every year, thousands of Africans lose property they paid for in full, not to thieves breaking down doors but to paperwork. A document is unsigned. A title is unregistered. A transaction that felt complete but was legally hollow.
The number one culprit? The absence of a valid, registered Deed of Assignment.
In real estate, documentation is everything.
A beautiful piece of land means nothing if your ownership is not legally recognized.
So before you say “I’ve bought land”, make sure you can confidently say:
“I own it — and it’s backed by a Certificate of Occupancy.”
Sometimes the biggest mistakes in real estate happen before the purchase is made because the wrong questions were never asked.