HAVE A REGISTERED SURVEY PLAN WHEN BUYING LAND OR BUILDING
Imagine paying millions of naira for a piece of land and celebrating your ownership, only to later find out that the land is Government land or belongs to someone else.
This sad reality happens every day because many land buyers ignore one important land document: Survey Plan. Without it, you are not buying land; you are buying problem wrapped in soil.
A Survey Plan is a land drawing that shows the exact boundaries, size, coordinates and location of your land.
With a registered Survey Plan, a Property and Real Estate Lawyer will check if the land is free from Government acquisition, falls under a reserved area or has any existing issues.
At Apex Chambers, we have handled many heartbreaking cases. Buyers come in tears after discovering that the land they paid for sits on a government proposed project, falls on oil pipeline route, proposed cemetery or even falls inside another person’s land.
Millions of naira wasted, all because they skipped making a registered survey plan.
So do not let land sellers and estate agents rush you with sweet talk or fake urgency. Always insist on getting a licensed Surveyor to prepare a registered Survey Plan for you.
Then get a Property and Real Estate Lawyer to use the Survey Plan to make full findings about the land.
Let a Property/Real Estate Lawyer guide you in your land/building purchase.
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APEX CHAMBERS, Law Firm of Property/Real Estate and Business/Corporate/Commercial Lawyers, Attorneys, Barristers, Solicitors Advocates, Legal Practitioners rendering legal services, Legal Consultants and Notary Public with Law Office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria