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.

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Land you have not stood on
Title searched, boundary walked
Before you decide anything

What goes wrong

What the family believes, and what the registry holds.

Inherited land is where paperwork and ground disagree most often, and where the disagreement has usually had years to settle in. These are the four we look for first.

First: what does the registry actually 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 a separate account of the same land, and it is the one that decides what you have.
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 does not settle the argument on its own. It only makes the record harder to reconstruct.

Where this sits

Stages 1 and 2 of the seven

You meet the first two, and you may never need the rest. Establishing what you hold is a complete piece of work on its own, and deciding what to do with it is a separate decision you take afterwards.

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Verification
What the family believes and what the registry records are not always the same document. The title is searched, the survey is matched against the beacons, and somebody physically walks it. Unoccupied land is where paperwork and ground most often disagree.
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 you hold. It is slow, and we publish how slow rather than quoting the best case.
What you get
The title as the registry actually holds it, not as it was described.

What refuses

The parts nobody can quietly skip.

The guards on these two stages are about the record, not about us. 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: a result nobody explained cannot be reviewed by anyone else. And once a verdict is reached the checks are sealed: a verdict written against a record that can still move is a verdict about nothing.
Title perfection
No date the title never had
A title state cannot carry a date it never had. The record refuses a date with no state behind it, and where the date is genuinely unknown the state stands alone rather than borrowing the day we happened to record it.

What it costs

The part of the price list that applies to you.

Read from the same schedule that posts fees to your ledger. Perfection is banded by state and title condition, and the band is quoted before the work starts rather than discovered at the end.

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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. We say so here because we would rather be trusted than believed.

What happens next

Find out what you hold, before you decide anything.

Nothing here asks you to sell, keep, build or let. The first piece of work is establishing what the registry says is yours, and it ends in a document.

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You tell us what you think you have.
Five short questions. None of them asks for a document, because the document is usually the thing you are missing.
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The title is searched and the boundary is walked.
What the registry holds, what the survey says and what is actually on the ground, each recorded against 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, quoted before it starts, and slow enough that we publish the range rather than the best case.
The title as the registry actually holds it, not as it was described.

What you can go and read

The ask

Title perfection is slow, and we say so

We publish how long this actually takes rather than quoting the best case. Everything we charge for it is on the pricing page, banded by state and title condition, before you commit to anything.

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Inherited land you’ve never seen?

The story and the registry are different documents.

Consent is missing, and nobody says so.

The boundary was surveyed from memory.

Nothing has been done for years.

Verification

Title perfection

You tell us what you think you have.

The title is searched and the boundary is walked.

If the title is imperfect, perfection is quoted separately.

Title perfection is slow, and we say so