How Land Ownership in Ghana ACTUALLY Works (And Why It's So Confusing)II Building in Ghana

[@kwekuhayford7852]

@4:10 the search would always show the orginal owner's name, if the Land Commission spends over 5 years to register lands for a new owner. The actions of tbe lands commission is what gives land owners the opportunity to resell lands multiply.

[@johnsonolajide4647]

This is dishonesty practice, why person needs to sell a land for multiple people? Most Africans were the most hypocrisy people on this planet. African continent has Churches and Mosques than any other countries on this planet. At the same time we're the most wicked and dishonest people on earth 🌎🌍. You'll see an African person calling God name every seconds, whereas their heart is trillion miles away from God.

[@roseanne1466]

​@@johnsonolajide4647 It's because we go to church only for entertainment. You ain't know?😂

[@christiantee2243]

This makes sense waa, how can you register land for 5yrs long,this law should be band,is land commission that gives the upper hand ✋️ to do that shit.

[@SugarKane9547]

This is knowledge for free. Thanks very much to both of you. Blessings.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

We are glad the video is helpful

[@zenabubawah3708]

Informative and helpful. Thanks to the host Ms Afia and guest Mr Timothy for their brilliant insights. Great interview.

[@Lovelaceberis]

Oh my…..I can’t love you any less….Value value value…thanks Again Afia…we appreciate you…will definitely reach out to do my land search

[@therealestateshowafrica]

You are so welcome… please do get in touch , we sure will assist you

[@hiprofael]

Umm... not sure you understand the expression you used. What you said means you love her so little (or hate her so much) that you cannot love her any less than you do.

[@Lovelaceberis]

@@hiprofael oh wow🤣🤣🤣😅

[@kwekuhayford7852]

Registration takes a long time. By the time it is done, the original owner would've sold it several times, since any search would still show the original owner.

[@Rough_Coins]

There's a reason why it takes long time

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Just buy land from a reputable real estate organization, they have a lot to loose and won’t want to tarnish their hard earned reputation over a few thousand dollars

[@richmondbekoe5261]

​​@@therealestateshowafricaNot always Afia. In my case, I bought a land(fully paid) from a reputable real estate in 2018 and I'm still yet to receive an indenture. Land acquisition is problematic in Gh. I guess you just have to be lucky and find yourself in the right place at the right time. Very educative content, keep it up!

[@davidakorly8169]

I would advise you fence your property after the land search to verify the ownership of the land. After that put a signage with the inscription "This is the property of ........ For further inquiries contact....... Please keep off this property." in front or at the middle of the land. When done, then you can go ahead with the registration. If you don't have the funds to fence the property, please do not buy the land yet. Any new buyer of the land would not risk buying that land when the land is fenced with the signage.

[@euniceborkaialabi5715]

Tim, so proud of you...go higher!!!

[@fibi95041]

Afia, great interview! However, some tougher questions could be beneficial. The number of people at the Lands Commission asking for bribes to process my documents is insane. It's truly disheartening. I wanted to ensure everything was in order before starting construction. I began the process nearly three years ago, and they keep telling me it's pending on someone's desk, waiting for a signature. To proceed, they say I need to pay a bribe. It's just madness.

[@oneone7522]

Even the bribe they cannot tell you the amount!!! It takes a lawyer 2000years to sign a document at the lands commission Ohhh!!!!

[@richmondbekoe5261]

Small advice: My brother take action, start the process of retrieving your documents from the land commission before its too late. 1) Your documents might end up missing at the lands commission 2) Before you realise someone will encroach your land, the seller/chief might change their mind as the prices of your area increase in value 3) You will end up wasting more money fighting another person claiming ownership on the same land 4) Someone with more resources will start building on your land If needs be file a complaint with the police(against the person who took bribe from you). I lost 3 plots of land at a prime area trying to do the 'right' thing before construction. I wonder why a simple signature takes months and sometimes years. There are good people at the land commission but the bad ones are really denting the image of the institution. Until leadership takes land litigation issues seriously you just can't trust the system and process of "doing the right thing". The best thing to do is save money, get your documents back(as you will need it for the issuance of a building permit) consult the person/chief who sold the land to you, build a good relationship with the chiefs/elders while simultaneously drawing a building plan(This will cost you money as well but will save you a lot of headache)...lastly gradually start your project even if it's a single room but be ready to sort out landguards. Note : The aforementioned is based on my personal experience. I'm not here to dent the image of anyone. This issues must really be dealt with seriously, it's causing our country dearly.

[@kwadwoaprakuwiredu6241]

Pls, go and take possession before someone start developing the land

[@BettyArnoh-Oduro]

Hi, nice to hear this but documents sent to lands commission office is gone over 2years amd still not got registered which is very frustrating. Whenever asked the person supposed to get done is never om the office or attending funeral, so now who os speaking the truth. Would please be happy to hear from you in this regards for afvice on what to do next. Thank you very much.

[@richardowusu203]

Please interviewer, next time ask the man who supervisors those who signs the paperwork to get the land register.?

[@hayfordattaboafo6405]

Very educative. Kidos madam interviewer

[@sethaddo4871]

Great Interview 👍. God Bless You For Educating Us. Kudos To You All

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@kojodidio]

Awesome and educative content... love it 👌

[@franwern519]

Thank you, very important. Please someone give this lady some cookies ✨

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Thank you… we are glad the video is helpful

[@parmark_emmanuel]

Educative

[@richardowusu203]

Ask why those are to sign the documents are always asking for close to twenty thousand Ghana cedis before your documents are signed? Those in charge,were they not told how much they were going to pay? They go to work and the whole day just one paper will sign. Who supervisor them to make sure 8 hours work is done for the day,

[@ZvqZ203]

Fraudulent and lack of transparency are the main culprit with respect to land issue in Ghana.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Stop buying real estate from people who have nothing to loose

[@johnsonolajide4647]

​@@therealestateshowafricaHow could someone identify people like this?

[@therealestateshowafrica]

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[@zenabubawah3708]

Informative and helpful. Thanks to the host and guest. Great interview. Brilliant.

[@charlesbruce6175]

The current K-12 American Science based System replaced the multiple School Streams (10, 11,13) which ran before 1987. Now, we are supposed to have 2yrs Kindergarten, and 12 yrs continous education ie. Grades 1 - 12, and not 3yrs JHS and 3yrs SHS. But due to messy implementation, we have arrived at this messy situation; we should go back and implement the original format.

[@the-Bhawk7]

Thank you this helps alot go right to the source.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

We are glad the video is helpful

[@RayabiTV]

Thanks for the education ..But The inst should do more education across frequently

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Yes, definitely

[@menjalialino6379]

Thanks for the interview. But I was waiting a specific question. As a foreigner, you purchase a land with 50 years lease, all is good. You build a house. And at the 45th year you want to do the renewal of the lease but the land do not want. What has the law says about that case and what become my house that I build on the land?

[@maroonamaasante6382]

Yes great question

[@LaughGh]

You became a citizen 😂and kept it with small fee

[@KojoRealEstate]

There should be a land procedure process set in law this does not seem to happen in ghana. A site plan is not enough.

[@noahadams8096]

I bought a land 25 years ago, I have built my house but I have nit been able to register. I have paid monies but still

[@foesongeorge4531]

WHAT ABOUT THE DIGITAL REGISTRY

[@josephineprempeh6604]

Wow this is very educative thank you

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Thanks for watching

[@livingourtruth8971]

Wonderful video, please the audio isn't the best as it cut in and out. Makes it hard to hear all that's being shared. Thank you.

[@roseanne1466]

Way too much wickedness and greediness in Ghana. First of all the housing prices are as expensive as in Western countries. And secondly you don't have even near the infrastructure nor security as in western countries 😢. Thirdly the law doesn't work!

[@HarryLeeds]

Stay in the West and buy your land there then since everything is all perfect there.... I won't move even a step away from an all perfect country where everything is golden

[@Lovelaceberis]

Are you comparing concrete houses in Ghana to the frame houses in the West?😅😅

[@roseanne1466]

​​@@HarryLeeds yes and at least in western countries like in europe, the houses are all free hold. Those houses there are an investment because you have a great infrastructure and a booming economy. I pray that one day Ghana get a government with a bright vision!

[@HarryLeeds]

@@roseanne1466 sorry but not all land in Europe is on freehold basis 😊

[@noblecollins9549]

Thanks for the enlightenment

[@therealestateshowafrica]

We are glad it was helpful

[@samuelasah3622]

Very knowledgeable. Kudos 👏

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@JULLIETKOOMSON]

Hmm, very worrying . I bought a land at an undeveloped site for teachers at kubekro no.2 in 2014 . Given the indenture ,but wen we started developing the land ,we were driven away by land guards and the matter was taken to court . The chiefs are now claiming bc the land or they sell it bc to us . Just can't get it , pls how do l go about it , what can be done for me to reclaim my property? Thanks

[@garyhouston2679]

FYI: Good interview but pls chk your mic 🎤 because your guest’s voice is distorted kind of muffled.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Very well, thanks for the feedback

[@arrowcreativeafriq2911]

Very educative ❤

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Thank YOU

[@OfoeNelson]

For production purposes next time ask your guests to take off their name tags. Lovely program. Keep it up.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Well noted …. Thank you 😊

[@maroonamaasante6382]

I hear a lot of scamming here. How can you BUY an apartment but its under a lease for 50 years? The word buy should not be being used if you can not own... that's very misleading.

[@parmark_emmanuel]

Land is leased

[@naadeisampson2313]

If a land is bought from the chief or stool land where do you get your indenture if the stool land is not registered under land commission or under the government?

[@joshpway]

Is there a law that allows the land owners to repossess your land if you didn’t develop it. If so what is the time limit

[@jackydavis5406]

If you bought a land and been told the land is a virgin land, and when the search done on the land , the search has no history of the land, the land was bought from the chef, the chef and elders signed the land documents, I also have the indenture and site plan. Can the land be registered???

[@SOSEntrepreneurHub]

❤❤❤Ayekooo Madame🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@therealestateshowafrica]

We are glad the video is helpful

[@SOSEntrepreneurHub]

@@therealestateshowafrica 👏🏾yeah, kudos

[@noahadams8096]

Lands Department is a big problem

[@philippaodai673]

If you have a leased government land and you want to buy it , what happens.more especially when you have built on it.

[@solomonnaryeetey6108]

My family land which was won through conquered since 1733 we have not registered it ,we did seach report 2014 and it came out that some people that our fathers leased some to have registered theirs and the was no declaration on it but suddenly when we did another seach 2019 it was reported that there is a declaration on it since 1986 how is that possible?

[@solomonnaryeetey6108]

We have submitted a seach since December 2023 at Koforiduah. We followed up and they keep telling us they are working on it.

[@KYRaR]

Sue them

[@Ablathev19]

One year now waiting on our documents!!!!! I'm calling and visiting there always we live very close by... No problems with our register.. did the work to be sure before and after registration.. its like they always say the sane thing we sent it to Accra still waiting please give us time should be ready in a couple weeks now its been more then a year. Would really be nice if it really work this way.. for foreigners your just the cash cow..😢

[@paulokra6216]

Hmmmmm I am facing the same problem

[@brigittarausch1737]

CASH-COW herrlich...es stimmt absolut.😅

[@joanlevene2647]

Hi, can I submit a side plan to register my land? What does it cost to register your land?

[@salisumdzineku5760]

Please I want to know is true now the land picking is digital now a days..

[@emmanueldensu2969]

Great interview 👍

[@therealestateshowafrica]

We are more than happy to hear this ...

[@ultymateproff6075]

My Question is why if you buy land and the land commission have to give me some years to expired meanwhile agreement with an individual and the land owner, the land owner is giving his land to you in exchange with money however he did not rent the land for you?

[@samuelosamkrampah]

Please why a the word lease is used indenture instead of purchase

[@GodisLove-v9w]

Who do you renew the lease with if it's a sub-lease and the sub-lessor can't be found? Do you go to the original lessor?

[@maroonamaasante6382]

Exactly... this is important questions

[@DickoSaeedmusah]

Since Kwame Nkrumah time Government has been steeling our land up to now please help us move the capital from Accra we are tired of them been sharing our land taketh capital to Ashanti region

[@asase.tv88]

Very educative

[@therealestateshowafrica]

we are glad to hear the video is helpful

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Thanks for watching, we are happy to hear the video is helpful

[@bernardnyamesorto7329]

I bought a property in North Tongu since March 2024 , and I paid everything, including registration fees. Till date, the surveyor keeps telling me the registration is pending at the lands commission in Ho. Why's nothing efficient in Ghana, What's going on!!???

[@edmcgeman5084]

Did I miss what is exactly to be done in 2024 as captioned for this video?

[@Lovelaceberis]

I picked a few lessons Register your land Run your search before purchase Read the indenture carefully etc… I hope this helps😊

[@nanakwadwosafo4758]

Interesting content. Kindly work on your editing skills.

[@georgeappiah4472]

Registration is expensive.Why

[@Lovelaceberis]

A lot of us buy real estate like we would buy groceries from the shop, we rush, don’t run checks, do it all by ourselves without engaging professionals and only come back to complain when we fail…..😅 Just spend some small money to do checks, you won’t do, take your time to get a professional help you, you won’t do. Like this is an investment, get help and you will be fine. I have bought acres of land in Ghana and never had issues 😊 Do we expect government to do that for us too? Again, there are bad people everywhere, even In Illinois where I grew up, bad people will be everywhere and that won’t change😅 Just get thing done right and you will be good. It goes without saying that not every country is for everyone.

[@princedjaba4626]

Great information. Thanks

[@therealestateshowafrica]

We are glad to hear

[@daydreamed]

How much does it cost to do the land search?

[@therealestateshowafrica]

There are different forms of land search... we recommend and conduct suitable searches based on the cost of the land and other factors

[@Nana_hemaa1897]

Other factors which mainly includes the acreage of the land.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

Rightly so👍

[@nanamottola9577]

Timo ❤

[@KojoRealEstate]

There is a law what does the law say regarding this. There is a lands commission act.

[@HamzaWahabu]

I submitted my documents for registration and it’s been four months now. If I check on the portal it’s still at records verification what should I do ? Great interview.

[@kwekuhayford7852]

Be ready. It may take years.

[@nyabinghi870]

Pay bribe

[@TheChariot99]

😂 boss, you have to pay bribe. They will sit on your document for years.

[@roseanne1466]

How much do they charge for them to do their job? ​@@TheChariot99

[@TheChariot99]

@@berniceboateng-sagoe2865 yes then you have to pay them again. Ghana is such a corrupted

[@HarryLeeds]

It will be bad to have all lands in Ghana sold on a freehold basis... Ghanaians will wake up to nothing, they will loose all their land to the rich and foreigners... Very wise decision

[@ahijahisrael4611]

So each countries in the world 🌎 will have this problem?

[@HarryLeeds]

@@ahijahisrael4611 In my honest opinion no country should sell their land on a freehold basis, may be a few exceptions here and there but not entirely

[@Dave-dp3pk]

BAD SOUND

[@jamrock2979]

As a diaspora this is very interesting. diaspora should stop buying lease lands in Ghana! We are wasting our hard earned money in Ghana! Why should we buy land and building expensive houses and when the lease up it may no renewed or even less years than we bought it for! are diaspora buying lease lands and building houses to give away for free! Daylight robbery..

[@bujujohnson2170]

Yes, it is daylight robbery. Ghana's land law is whack

[@therealestateshowafrica]

A lot of leases have renewal clauses which makes it’s legally binding for the land sellers to renew for you. It’s why we keep preaching, ‘Ensure your land seller puts a renewable clause in your indenture’.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

We have worked and seen hundreds of indentures as a company, we are yet to see one that doesn’t have a renewal clause.

[@maroonamaasante6382]

Exactly... it's a scam

[@richardowusu203]

Sorry, I made a lot of mistakes whilst typing, please ask the greater Accra commissioner ,that, don't they informed those lawyers who they employ to sign the land documents, about how much they were going to be paid at the end of a month? Who supervisors them, to make sure they are doing their job? They have been creating artificial pile up so they can extort money from those who want to register their lands?

[@richardowusu203]

Those at the top, should please,make sure those who signs the documents are doing their eight hours work in a day , Because I promise you they don't come to work early, and when they report to work, with in a few minutes,they are off to launch,they don't come back to the office and that will be the end of their work for the day.In Ghana, public officer's have no supervision and that has created problem for the citizens.God help Ghana.

[@swiffmatic]

Ghana & honesty dishonesty go 2gether like rice & stew! Integrity is a foreign concept... corruption all around!

[@isaacdankwa7613]

If this guy is the boss of lands commission,then God help us because he is swimming in corruption; he can't even answer,neither can he explain a leasehold or freehold

[@HarryLeeds]

Isaac please what is a leasehold or freehold?

[@benedictreynolds7708]

Swimming in corruption paaa 😂😂😂

[@foesongeorge4531]

LAND TITLE MAY NEVER BE GIVEN BECAUSE OF CORRUPTION IN LAND COMMISION

[@HarryLeeds]

I am reading comments comparisons between infrastructure in the West and what's available in Ghana and how that does not match up prices of real estate in Ghana.... My question now is why do people want to still invest in Ghana anyways?🤔 If the country is that bad then why don't the people complaining rather buy their real estate in the West since there's better infrastructure, there's no corruption and everything is perfect over there? I won't move an inch from such an 'all-prefect' situation. We expect all lands in Ghana to be sold freely when we know we'll that that's not done even in the West that we so compare Ghana to If the country is that bad, why do you still want to buy real estate there?

[@RayabiTV]

Who's the Government?

[@Lovelaceberis]

Ministry of Works and Housing , Parliament,The President

[@RayabiTV]

​@@Lovelaceberis They work for The government,their not the government.The host did well for this education . But him saying the land commission is land Lord is where my question came up,that is what the white man made us understand. After all it is worth watching...❤❤

[@ObedMensah-p5t]

People have started registration but the workers will deliberately frustrate you. The man talked as if he doesn't know the problems there

[@KojoRealEstate]

Why is he talking about deeds document when land title exists? This is causing the confusion.

[@therealestateshowafrica]

The Eastern Region uses a deed document

[@davidhenaku707]

All this is Accra wahala

[@akuakesewaa9715]

Please with the search he’s not being honest and sugarcoating things unless he being a leader is not aware of what those beneath him in leadership are doing, it does not take 14 day and even after 14 days there’s not one progress to be seen on the the online website, you have to pay bribe before an action is taken, unless he’s not aware this is going on, I was a victim please get to him in my behalf and let him give us reasons and if action needs to be taken it’s done so. The employees are not forthcoming, if it will take even a month it should be communicated so you see there’s is progress that you application just being left with no communication

[@doyededon6849]

The most terrible and corrupted commission in Ghan

[@frankmensah6213]

Lands commission in Ghana, DON'T GO THERE !!!

[@therealestateshowafrica]

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[@richardowusu203]

The land commission is not helping Ghanaian land buyers at all