YOU DO NOT WANT TO SKIP DUE DILIGENCE WHEN BUYING LAND

YOU DO NOT WANT TO SKIP DUE DILIGENCE WHEN BUYING LAND

A few days ago, a middle-aged man walked into Apex Chambers Port Harcourt office, visibly shaken.

In 2020 he bought not one, not two, but three different portions of land in various locations across Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Proud of what he believed were smart investments, he got unregistered survey plans and Deeds of Conveyance.

Now, every single plot (25 in total) is in serious dispute.

One is now claimed by another buyer who is now building on part of the land.

Another is under contention by a community that has surfaced, insisting they are the rightful owners, not the man’s vendor.

The third land turns out to be government-acquired land.

He’s on the brink of losing lands worth tens of millions of naira and his mind too.

We asked him two questions:
“Did you engage a Property Lawyer to conduct due diligence (investigations ) before buying the land?”

He said No.
“Have you contacted your seller?” we asked him.

“No, he has sold the house he was living in and was nowhere to be found.”

His mistake was trusting hearsay and surface-level documentation, without conducting legal due diligence.

This man’s story is a painful but powerful reminder: buying land without a Property Lawyer is like building a house on sand.

Always engage a Property Lawyer before any land transaction.

Let the Property Lawyer conduct comprehensive due diligence – ownership search, survey verification, history  of ownership examination, and checks for any official  or unofficial issues.

Register your land documents and perfect your ownership properly.

At Apex Chambers, we have seen too many of these stories. Don’t let yours be the next headline of avoidable loss.

Land is wealth, but only when it’s secured.
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