Inheriting

Inherited land you’ve never seen?

Inherited property tends to arrive as a story and a photograph. What it needs first is a document trail, and somebody standing on the boundary.

What goes wrong

What the family believes, and what the registry holds.

Inherited land is where paperwork and ground disagree most often, and the disagreement has usually had years to settle in.

First: what does the registry say you hold?
The story and the registry are different documents.
What the family knows is usually true and almost never filed. The registry holds its own account of the same land, and that one decides.
Consent is missing, and nobody says so.
Customary family land can be dealt with by one member without the consent of the family head. The absence is not written on anything you would think to ask for.
The boundary was surveyed from memory.
Beacons move, plans get redrawn, and the corner everybody agrees on is not always the corner on the plan. Somebody has to stand on it.
Nothing has been done for years.
Unoccupied land is where paperwork and ground drift furthest apart, and time only makes the record harder to reconstruct.

Where this sits

You meet the first two, and may never need the rest. Establishing what you hold is a complete piece of work on its own.

Verification
The title is searched, the survey is matched against the beacons, and somebody walks the land.
What you get
A written verdict, with the name of whoever reached it.
Title perfection
If the title is imperfect, and on inherited land it usually is, this is the work that closes the gap between what you hold and what the registry says. It is slow, and we publish how slow.
What you get
The title as the registry holds it.

What refuses

One refuses a check nobody explained. The other refuses to date a title state by the day we happened to type it.

Verification
No check without a note
A check recorded with no note is refused. Once a verdict is reached, the checks are sealed.
Title perfection
No date the title never had
A title state cannot carry a date it never had. Where the date is unknown, the state stands alone rather than borrowing the day we recorded it.

What it costs

Read from the schedule that posts fees to your ledger. Perfection is banded by state and title condition, and quoted before the work starts.

What these stages charge

Verification₦250,000.00 to ₦450,000.00 quoted per engagement before we start
Quoted per engagement before we start. Charged whether we approve the property or reject it. The work is the same, and a fee that only lands on approval would be a reason to approve.
Title perfection₦850,000.00 to ₦3,500,000.00 when the title reaches the state
Banded by state and title condition, and stated when the title is perfected.

What we never charge for

Money sitting in your property accountNo charge
It is your money waiting, not a balance we are earning on.
Leaving usNo charge
No exit fee, and no notice period that functions as one. The ledger and every document in it leave with you.
Converting your payoutNo charge
No markup on the exchange rate. Payouts convert at the rate our bank gives on the day, and the rate and the moment it was captured are printed on the transfer.

Verification is a professional opinion on the evidence available, not a guarantee against fraud.

What happens next

The first piece of work is establishing what the registry says is yours, and it ends in a document.

You tell us what you think you have.
Five short questions. None of them asks for a document.
Who you are · Where · Details · Purpose · Contact
The title is searched and the boundary is walked.
What the registry holds, what the survey says and what is on the ground, each recorded with the name of whoever checked it.
₦250,000.00 to ₦450,000.00 quoted per engagement before we start
If the title is imperfect, perfection is quoted separately.
Banded by state and title condition, and quoted before it starts.
The title as the registry holds it.

What you can go and read

The ask

We publish how long it takes. What we charge for it is on the pricing page, banded by state and title condition.