THE REASONS SURVEY PLAN SEARCH IS CRUCIAL PRIOR TO BUYING A LAND.

First, what is a Survey Plan? It is a document that shows the dimensions and boundary of a parcel of land to give an accurate measurement and description of that land. It is highly technical and those that are academically, practically and professionally certified to carry out land surveys are referred to as Land Surveyors and they are regulated by the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors.

Now let's look at features of a survey plan:

must contain the following information:

(a) A Survey Plan must indicate the name of the owner of the land surveyed.

(b). Detailed address or description of the land surveyed

(c). The size of the land surveyed

(d). The drawn out portion of the land survey and mapped out on the survey plan document

(e). The beacon numbers

(f). The name, address, stamp & seal of the Surveyor that drew up the survey plan and the date it was drawn up.

(g). A stamp showing the land is either free from Government acquisition or not.

Therefore, Survey Plan is one of the most important documents that a prospective land buyer should demand from the seller (either agent, individual or family) that intends to sell the land/property before making payment at all. The reason being that most land owners do not have C of O, registered deed or any other government verifiable titles on their lands other than Survey Plans especially lands owned by families.

This survey plan is what your lawyer, agent or whoever engaged by you would take to the Survey Department of the State where the land is located or office of the Surveyor General if the land is in Lagos State to do a geographical search. To remove any doubt,  alsob take a Registered Surveyor to the land to pick out the coordinates of the land to compare with the Coordinates on the Survey Plan and then to the Surveyor General’s office for charting to ascertain if the land is free from government acquisition or not.

Taking a Surveyor to the Land physically to measure and pick the land coordinates is one of the most important things you must do before you buy a land so as to know the status of the land because from experience sometime the Coordinates on survey plans presented by sellers might be different from the true coordinates on ground. So, no matter how cheap or "beautiful" or strategically located a land or property is, once that property has been discovered through search to be designated for Government use in future, there is no point going any further to purchase it.

 However, it will be a very foolish risk to attempt to defile the government and say nothing would happen, at least there are so many houses around or so many people have bought their own and nothing has happened and proceed to buy without a search.

Well for those who are conversant with the Lagos State Government's no nonsense approach in maintaining the master plan of Lagos, once your property is within that area that has being designated for future Government use, no matter how long it may be. The plan must be carried out accordingly and your property will go down without any form of compensation because you failed to do the right thing by throwing caution to the wind.

Please take caution and do the needful before you become a victim of buying lands that are defective because you failed to carry out a thorough background survey land check

Finally another advantage of the Survey Search is that if the land has been designated for Agricultural Purpose, you would know in advance. It’s mostly prevalent in Ikorodu, Badagry and Growing Rural Areas that are just cropping up.

Buying into a place designated for Agric is a major no-no when your intention is for residential development unless it has been designated for Residential or Mixed Development, if solely for Agricultural land use, avoid it please.

The summary is that Survey Plan search, when the land doesn't have C of O, Registered Deed and the likes saves you alot of head ache at first before you even move ahead. And once you meet an Omonile or Agent who is extremely difficult with you in terms of not providing the survey plan on demand for search please my brothers and sisters, walk away quietly.

The red flag has been shown that you're about to be scammed. A survey plan is a public document and not a private cheque book, so you shouldn’t be bamboozled by people who tell you that the owner doesn’t want to release it because of security reasons.

At A2 REALMART OPTIONS, we help Nigerians home and abroad to avoid being scammed in real estate deals by assisting land/property purchasers to conduct detailed Survey Plan Search, C of O and other government registered title search.

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* Governor's Consent to Assignment.
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