VERIFY LAND CO-ORDINATES BEFORE BUYING

VERIFY LAND CO-ORDINATES BEFORE BUYING

Buying land without verifying the coordinates is like walking blindfolded into an expressway. You may get lucky, you may not.

A Survey Plan may appear genuine, yet the coordinates on it could point to a land completely different from the one you were shown.

Land coordinates are precise numbers (called Northing and Easting) that show the true and exact position of land on earth. They are the heartbeat of any valid Survey Plan.

What the seller or estate agent says is “your land” may not align with the coordinates in the survey plan or what is physically on ground.

If you are not careful, you may pay for one land and end up with an entirely different land. Many buyers have discovered too late that their Survey Plan points to land already owned by someone else or located in a swamp, right on a road or in the middle of nowhere.

Some have even lost buildings during demolitions because their coordinates were wrong and they built on land they never actually owned.

Remember, any building you erect on a land belongs to the owner of the land.

So confirm that the coordinates match the land being shown to you. Get a licensed Surveyor or a Property Lawyer to verify it. Do not rely on assumptions.

If the coordinates do not tally with the actual location of the land, do not buy.
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