Inside Kenya’s bogus title deeds crisis: How a fake paper can wipe out your investment
What you need to know:
- A buyer must establish whether the person selling the property is actually the registered owner.
- But ownership verification should go beyond looking at a title deed handed over by the seller.
For decades, a title deed has been treated by many Kenyans as the ultimate proof that they own a piece of land.
A buyer sees the document, checks the name, conducts a search at the lands registry, pays the seller and begins planning what to build.
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