Land search, title transfer and Boma Yangu
Land searches and transfers on Ardhisasa, replacing a lost title deed, Nairobi land rates and Boma Yangu affordable housing. Answers come from the Ministry of Lands, Nairobi City County and Boma Yangu.
Most asked
- Do an official land search (title search)
- Transfer land to a buyer after a sale
- Get a title deed for the first time (new plots after subdivision, or from an allotment letter)
- Buy KPLC tokens, recover a missing token, or report a power outage
- Apply for a new electricity connection (Kenya Power)
- Get building plans approved in Nairobi (construction permit)
- Amalgamate (combine) adjoining plots into one title
- Appeal a NEMA decision at the National Environment Tribunal
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- Amalgamate (combine) adjoining plots into one title
- Appeal a NEMA decision at the National Environment Tribunal
- Apply for a government pool house (civil servants, Nairobi)
- Apply for a new electricity connection (Kenya Power)
- Apply for net metering to export rooftop solar power to the grid
- Ask the NLC to review a grant or title of public land
- Building on a road reserve: what the law says
- Building plans and the county: time limits, appeals and enforcement notices
- Buy a house from the National Housing Corporation (cash, mortgage or tenant purchase)
- Buy KPLC tokens, recover a missing token, or report a power outage
- Buy navigational (hydrographic) charts
- Buy or rent a house from the Civil Servants Housing Scheme
- Buy tree seedlings from KFS or register a tree nursery
- Can a foreigner own land in Kenya?
- Can a landlord demand goodwill or key money before renting to you?
- Can a relative sell or use a dead person's land before succession?
- Can I appeal a Business Premises Rent Tribunal decision?
- Can I get a title deed for land on a riverbank, beach or road?
- Can I own property anywhere in Kenya?
- Can I take an unfair Lands Registry decision to court?
- Can the county auction your land for unpaid rates?
- Can the Land Registrar correct a mistake on my title deed?
- Can the Land Registrar put a restriction on your title?
- Can you be evicted from land without notice?
- Can you get your Housing Levy back?
- Can you keep a wild animal as a pet, or buy bushmeat?
- Can you kill a wild animal that attacks your crops or livestock?
- Can you own land by living on it for 12 years (adverse possession)?
- Can your landlord cut your water or lock you out to make you leave?
- Can your landlord end your lease straight away for breaking it?
- Can your landlord raise the rent whenever they want?
- Can your landlord take your goods for unpaid rent?
- Can your spouse sell or mortgage the family home without your consent?
- Challenge a compulsory land acquisition decision or compensation award at the Land Acquisition Tribunal
- Change of user or extension of user for land
- Change your electricity tariff (lifeline, domestic or commercial)
- Check and pay Nairobi County land rates
- Check and pay your postpaid electricity bill
- Check if a Kenya Power staff member or contractor is genuine (Jua For Sure)
- Check if a land surveyor is licensed
- Check if an estate agent is registered, or report one
- Check or pay your Mombasa water bill (MOWASSCO)
- Check planned power interruptions (Kenya Power maintenance schedule)
- Check the weather forecast (Kenya Meteorological Department)
- Check your Nakuru water bill or get a new connection (NAWASSCO)
- Claim compensation when the government compulsorily acquires your land
- Claim for appliances or property damaged by a Kenya Power fault
- Close your Kenya Power account and get your deposit back
- Community land: who owns it, who decides, and can it be sold?
- Complain about your water company to WASREB
- Complain to REREC about a rural electrification project
- Complain to WRA or report water pollution or illegal abstraction
- Contact Kenya Power customer care and self-service
- Correct an error on a title deed or land register
- Deadlines to appeal a WRA or WASREB decision to the Water Tribunal
- Discharge a charge after clearing a land loan (remove the bank from your title)
- Dispute a high, estimated or zero Kenya Power bill
- Do an official land search (title search)
- Do I have to separate my rubbish by law?
- Do you need a permit to cut trees on your own land?
- Does a land sale agreement have to be in writing?
- Does a lease or rental agreement have to be registered?
- Does land a parent gave a child before death count in inheritance?
- Extend or renew a land lease (leasehold)
- Family land registered in one person's name: can relatives claim a share?
- Farm a plot in a KFS forest plantation (PELIS)
- File a land dispute at the Environment and Land Court
- Get a discharge of charge or certificate of outright purchase for a settlement-scheme plot
- Get a dog licence (Nairobi)
- Get a government valuation of a deceased person's land for probate
- Get a government valuation of land or property for a court case or arbitration
- Get a home loan from the Civil Servants Housing Scheme Fund (civil servants)
- Get a land rent clearance certificate
- Get a mains water connection from your water company (any county)
- Get a Nairobi Water connection or report a water problem
- Get a Part Development Plan (PDP) or have one authenticated
- Get a RIM amended or a deed plan prepared
- Get a title deed for the first time (new plots after subdivision, or from an allotment letter)
- Get a water use permit or borehole authorisation (WRA)
- Get a wiring (electrical installation test and completion) certificate
- Get allocated a settlement-scheme plot (balloting and letter of offer)
- Get building plans approved by Bomet County
- Get building plans approved by Bungoma County
- Get building plans approved by Busia County
- Get building plans approved by Elgeyo Marakwet County
- Get building plans approved by Garissa County
- Get building plans approved by Homa Bay County
- Get building plans approved by Kajiado County
- Get building plans approved by Kericho County
- Get building plans approved by Kiambu County
- Get building plans approved by Kilifi County
- Get building plans approved by Kirinyaga County
- Get building plans approved by Kisii County
- Get building plans approved by Kisumu County
- Get building plans approved by Kitui County
- Get building plans approved by Kwale County
- Get building plans approved by Laikipia County
- Get building plans approved by Lamu County
- Get building plans approved by Machakos County
- Get building plans approved by Makueni County
- Get building plans approved by Mandera County
- Get building plans approved by Marsabit County
- Get building plans approved by Meru County
- Get building plans approved by Mombasa County (e-DAMS)
- Get building plans approved by Murang'a County
- Get building plans approved by Nakuru County
- Get building plans approved by Nandi County
- Get building plans approved by Narok County
- Get building plans approved by Nyamira County
- Get building plans approved by Nyandarua County
- Get building plans approved by Nyeri County
- Get building plans approved by Samburu County
- Get building plans approved by Taita Taveta County
- Get building plans approved by Tana River County
- Get building plans approved by Tharaka Nithi County
- Get building plans approved by Trans Nzoia County
- Get building plans approved by Turkana County
- Get building plans approved by Uasin Gishu County
- Get building plans approved by Vihiga County
- Get building plans approved by Wajir County
- Get building plans approved in Nairobi (construction permit)
- Get compensation for land, crops or structures affected by a KETRACO power line (wayleave)
- Get copies of land adjudication case proceedings or sketch maps
- Get copies of National Physical Planning Liaison Committee minutes or inspect the minute books
- Get free advice from a lands officer
- Get ground rent set after subdivision, change of user or lease extension
- Get KCAA height approval for a building, mast or tower
- Get KeNHA approval for an access road to your property off a national highway
- Get KURA approval for roadside development or access on an urban road
- Get Land Control Board consent to sell, lease or subdivide agricultural land
- Get newly allocated government land (a new grant) surveyed
- Get public land allocated, or a wayleave over public land, through the NLC
- Get survey maps, survey plans and RIMs
- Get your power reconnected after disconnection
- Getting your own title for an apartment (sectional title)
- Go to court to divide matrimonial property after separation or divorce
- Going to court to protect the environment
- How is property divided in a polygamous marriage?
- How long building approval lasts, and building differently from approved plans
- How much notice a landlord must give to end a shop lease or raise rent
- How much notice to end a rental with no end date
- How to legally remove squatters from your land
- Is a title deed final proof of who owns land?
- Is it a crime to enter, or graze animals on, someone's land without permission?
- Is it a crime to remove or destroy boundary beacons?
- Is logging legal in Kenya? Timber harvesting licences and protected trees
- Jointly owned land: what happens when an owner dies or wants to sell
- Kenya's National Land Policy (Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2009)
- Land conversion: get your title moved to the new land law (new parcel numbers)
- Land sold to two buyers: what the law says
- Land transferred by fraud: getting the register corrected
- LSK Conditions of Sale in property sale agreements
- Make NHC payments and get your statement on the NHC mobile app
- My landlord sold the building: is my tenancy still valid?
- My neighbour's noise, smoke or smell is disturbing me: what the law says
- No access road to your plot: what the law says
- No Land Control Board consent: can you get your money back?
- No title deed: will I be compensated if the government takes the land?
- Noise rules: loud music, parties, hooting and building at night
- Object to the land adjudication register
- Objecting to a neighbour's building or development
- Oil and chemical spills: who pays, compensation and penalties
- Order a government topographical survey of your land
- Order a water bowser, get water tested or complain to Coast Water Works Development Agency
- Partition jointly owned land into separate titles
- Pay Baringo County land rates
- Pay Bomet County land rates
- Pay Bungoma County land rates
- Pay Busia County land rates
- Pay Elgeyo Marakwet County land rates
- Pay Embu County land rates
- Pay Garissa County land rates
- Pay Homa Bay County land rates
- Pay Isiolo County land rates
- Pay Kajiado County land rates
- Pay Kakamega County land rates
- Pay Kericho County land rates
- Pay Kiambu County land rates
- Pay Kilifi County land rates
- Pay Kirinyaga County land rates
- Pay Kisii County land rates
- Pay Kisumu County land rates
- Pay Kitui County land rates
- Pay Kwale County land rates
- Pay Laikipia County land rates
- Pay Lamu County land rates
- Pay land rent (ground rent) on Ardhisasa
- Pay Machakos County land rates
- Pay Makueni County land rates
- Pay Mandera County land rates
- Pay Meru County land rates
- Pay Migori County land rates
- Pay Mombasa County land rates online
- Pay Murang'a County land rates
- Pay Nakuru County land rates
- Pay Nandi County land rates
- Pay Narok County land rates
- Pay Nyamira County land rates
- Pay Nyandarua County land rates
- Pay Nyeri County land rates
- Pay or check your Nairobi water bill (Nairobi Water, NCWSC)
- Pay Samburu County land rates
- Pay Siaya County land rates
- Pay stamp duty on a land or property transfer
- Pay Taita Taveta County land rates
- Pay Tharaka Nithi County land rates
- Pay Trans Nzoia County land rates
- Pay Turkana County land rates
- Pay Uasin Gishu County land rates
- Pay Vihiga County land rates
- Pay Wajir County land rates
- Pay West Pokot County land rates
- Pay WRA water use charges and send your meter readings
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Bomet (Bomet Water Company)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Eldoret (ELDOWAS)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Embu (EWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Homa Bay (HOMAWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Kakamega (KACWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Kericho (KEWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Kilifi and Mariakani (KIMAWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Kisii (KWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Kisumu (KIWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Malindi (MAWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Mavoko and Athi River (MAVWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Meru (MEWASS)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Murang'a town (MUWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Naivasha (NAIVAWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Nanyuki (NAWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Nyahururu (NYAHUWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Nyeri (NYEWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Ruiru and Juja (RUJWASCO)
- Pay your water bill or get a new connection in Thika (THIWASCO)
- Place or remove a caution (caveat) on land
- Property in your spouse's name only: do you have a claim?
- Public, community and private land: what is the difference?
- Register (deposit) your will at the lands registry
- Register a charge (a loan or mortgage secured on your land)
- Register a community and its community land
- Register a court order, decree or vesting order against land
- Register a document at the lands registry (agreements, deeds of indemnity, bonds, licences)
- Register a lease or sub-lease of land
- Register a power of attorney for land
- Register a sectional plan to get titles for flats, or convert an old long lease
- Register an Ardhisasa account
- Register and apply for an affordable house on Boma Yangu
- Rent a Kenya Railways house, building or land
- Rent a National Housing Corporation (NHC) house
- Rent office space or buy an apartment from Kenya Development Corporation (KDC)
- Replace a lost title deed
- Report a fallen power line, illegal connection, vandalism or Kenya Power fraud
- Report a problem animal or wildlife emergency (KWS)
- Report illegal allocation or grabbing of public land
- Report illegal logging, a forest fire or forest encroachment to KFS
- Report pollution, noise or an environmental incident to NEMA
- Resolve a land boundary dispute with your neighbour
- Reverse a wrong Kenya Power payment or move tokens to the right meter
- Rights over your land that don't show on the title
- Set up and register a wildlife conservancy or sanctuary on your land
- Subdivide land and get new title deeds
- Submit a historical land injustice claim to the NLC
- Switch from a postpaid to a prepaid (token) meter
- Take a landlord–tenant dispute to the Rent Tribunal (BPRT or RRT)
- Take a water dispute or appeal to the Water Tribunal
- Take part in land adjudication (demarcation, land committee and arbitration board cases)
- Tenancy agreements: what to include and stamp duty
- The Land Control Board refused consent: can you appeal?
- Transfer a Kenya Power account to a new owner or tenant
- Transfer a settlement-scheme plot to heirs after a death (succession)
- Transfer land to a buyer after a sale
- Transfer land to heirs after a death (transmission at the land registry)
- Update your token meter (Update Token Meter Yako)
- Upgrade your power supply (additional load, e.g. three-phase) or reroute a line
- Water crimes: illegal connections, meter tampering, river diversion and dumping
- What a bank must do before selling your charged land
- What a landlord must do for a tenant by law
- What counts as matrimonial property
- What is illegal to do inside a government forest
- When can a landlord evict a tenant under the Rent Restriction Act?
- Which court hears a land dispute
- Which law protects you as a tenant renting a home?
- Who doesn't pay stamp duty: first-time affordable housing buyers, spouses, wills and family trusts
- Who runs an apartment block, and service charge disputes
- Your landlord won't refund your deposit: what the law says
- Your right to clean water, and who is responsible for it