Answer:

Yes, survey plan contains all the mappings and coordinates of an area you want to buy.

It is through this survey plan, you will first search and discover whether the property is free from acquisition or it has been acquired by Government.

A deed of assignment: is a written agreement between the owner that sold it to you and the new purchaser to buy a land or property. Without this deed, you have no proof that a purchase occurred.

Most people always rely on receipts to show proof but time and time again, these receipts can be falsified or denied by the seller whenever he or she wants to sell the land to another person but a deed of assignment describes the time the transaction was made, between which parties, the location of the property, the survey number, the amount it was sold and the signatories to the transaction.

Answer:

 When an omonile or family omonile shows you their whole survey plan mapping out the entire area it is as a result of the following;

a. The families want to separate their own lands from the other community so they call a surveyor to map out their own lands according to their customs, heritage and gift of succession of land over the years.

b. When they divide it into particular plots, it is known a block per plot and it makes it easier to locate your plot if you intend to buy from a family that has done this. They usually look as if you are buying from an approved Government scheme. It’s an organized way of doing things but the problems comes from the fact that what they allocate to you via paper is different from what you see in real life.

So unless those plots that have been mapped out as a Scheme, you should take it with a pinch of salt and get an Alausa Surveyor(if the property is in Lagos) to go with you to map it out personally. Some land owners when they show you mapped out plots for you to buy and you just buy them on face value without taking a professional surveyor to map out the coordinates according to what is written in their survey plan, you could end up buying another person’s land that has been allocated or sold to somebody else and that is where the real problem starts.

No matter the survey plan that you see free from acquisition stamped on it, whether individual land for sale or family mapped out land for sale, make sure you do the survey plan search to verify it in the surveyor general’s office.

The number one fraud and scam today in land sales is this “Free from Acquisition” stamp you see on survey plans. It has generated so much controversy and has led to the duping of a lots of People in terms of Millions of Naira.

Answer:

It Is not advisable, reason explained below:

• The fact that a file number has been given at the ministry does NOT mean that the excision will be granted. This means that if the government does NOT grant the excision, you get no land.
• In an excision application, the total area of land applied for is NOT always granted.

This means that if a real estate company applied for 50 hectares of land to be excised, the government may grant 30 hectares. The implication is that those who bought land from the 20 hectares that was not granted will lose their lands.

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