Land Law
LAND LAW SERVICES IN ACCRA, GHANA
Before you buy land in Ghana, know exactly what you’re buying.
Title fraud, double sales, and unresolved stool land claims cost Ghanaian families and businesses dearly every year. We verify, document, and defend your right to the land you’ve paid for.
Land disputes are among the most common, and often the most costly, legal problems people face in Ghana. Most start the same way: an unclear title, a parcel sold more than once, or a customary land claim nobody resolved properly. Hansivan Legal Consult’s land law practice helps individuals, families, and businesses protect their property interests before a purchase, during a transaction, and in disputes after the fact.
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Title Search and Due Diligence
Before any land purchase, we conduct title searches at the Lands Commission to verify ownership, check for existing encumbrances, and confirm the seller has the legal right to transfer the land.
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Conveyancing and Property Transfers
We prepare and review indentures, handle conveyancing from offer to registration, ensuring every transfer is properly documented and legally binding from the outset.
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Stool Land and Customary Land Matters
We advise on stool and family land, one of the more complicated corners of Ghanaian property law, where customary ownership structures intersect with statutory registration requirements.
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Resolving Land Disputes and Boundary Conflicts
When disputes arise, whether that’s a boundary disagreement, a competing claim to the same land, or a landlord-tenant conflict, we represent clients in negotiation and, where necessary, before the Lands Commission or the courts.
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Indenture Preparation and Registration
Every indenture we draft is built to hold up under scrutiny. We don’t recycle a template from an old transaction and hope it fits. We write it for your parcel and carry it through to proper registration.
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Why Legal Due Diligence Matters Before You Buy Land in Ghana
Given how often land fraud and double-selling occur in Accra’s fast-growing property market, our strong recommendation to every prospective buyer is the same: get a title search done before money changes hands, not after.
- WHAT WE HANDLE
Every stage of a Ghanaian land
transaction
From the first search to a boundary dispute years later, we work on the same file, so
nothing gets lost in translation between lawyers.
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Title Search & Due Diligence
Verify true ownership, existing encumbrances, and prior transactions at the Lands Commission before you commit money.
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Conveyancing
Full handling of the sale process, from offer to indenture drafting, execution, and registration in your name.
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Stool & Family Land
Navigating customary ownership structures alongside statutory registration, Ghana’s most disputed category of land.
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Boundary & Ownership Disputes
Representation before the Lands Commission or the courts when a competing claim threatens your land.
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Indenture Preparation
Drafted and reviewed to hold up under scrutiny, not copied from an old transaction and hoped for the best.
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Landlord & Tenant Matters
Lease disputes, eviction procedure, and tenancy agreements for both landlords and tenants.
- OUR PROCESS
What happens after you call us
A title search follows the same four stages. Here’s what to expect.
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Instruction & Documentation
You bring us the site plan, indenture, or any documents the seller has provided. We identify what’s missing before we start.
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Lands Commission Search
We check registered ownership, encumbrances, and litigation history against the parcel. This usually takes 5 to 10 working days.
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Site Inspection
Physical verification that boundaries match the documents, and that no one else is occupying or claiming the land.
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Report & Next Steps
A plain-language report on what we found and what it means for your purchase. If it’s clear, we move straight to conveyancing.
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Land law questions we hear most
A standard search at the Lands Commission typically takes 5–10 working days once we have the parcel details, though this can extend if records are incomplete or the land falls under a disputed stool jurisdiction.
A site plan shows the physical boundaries and location of a parcel. An indenture is the legal document transferring ownership. A site plan alone does not prove you own the land. Many fraud cases involve a genuine site plan attached to a fabricated or unregistered indenture.
Yes. The same parcel can sometimes have more than one registered document if fraud or administrative error occurred earlier. This is exactly what a title search is designed to catch before you pay.
Stool land is land held in trust by a chief or family head under customary law, rather than owned outright by an individual. Transactions require proper authorization from the recognized custodian, and disputes over who holds that authority are a common source of land conflict in Ghana.