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482 guides and case studies, a plain-English land glossary, county-by-county risk guides, answers to common questions, and a featured guide every day.
Rift Valley
Baringo combines community and pastoral land, settlement schemes, and lake and irrigation areas. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Bomet combines agricultural smallholdings, tea-growing land, and family land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideWestern
Bungoma combines agricultural smallholdings, settlement schemes, and family land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideWestern
Busia combines family and agricultural land, border-town plots, and lake and wetland-adjacent land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Elgeyo-Marakwet combines family and agricultural land, escarpment settlements, and forest-edge land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideEastern
Embu combines agricultural smallholdings, adjudicated family land, and irrigation-scheme land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNorth Eastern
Garissa combines community land, pastoral land, riverine agriculture, and urban allotments. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNyanza
Homa Bay combines family and agricultural land, lakefront and island land, and adjudication areas. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideEastern
Isiolo combines community land, pastoral land, conservancies, and urban leaseholds. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
A large county bordering Nairobi where rapid land subdivision from group ranches and Maasai community land has created fertile ground for fraud and boundary disputes.
County guideWestern
Kakamega combines dense agricultural smallholdings, family land, and former sugar-estate areas. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Kericho combines tea estates, agricultural smallholdings, and urban leaseholds. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCentral
A rapidly developing county bordering Nairobi, with one of the most active land markets in Kenya driven by urban sprawl and satellite town growth.
County guideCoast
A coastal county with high-value beach properties, significant diaspora investment, and complex land disputes involving historic coastal grants, community land and informal tourism development.
County guideCentral
Kirinyaga combines Mwea irrigation-scheme holdings, agricultural smallholdings, and urban subdivisions. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNyanza
Kisii combines very dense agricultural smallholdings, family land, and urban roadside plots. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNyanza
Western Kenya's largest city and regional commercial hub, with land disputes concentrated around the lakefront, succession conflicts, and informal settlement encroachment on titled land.
County guideEastern
Kitui combines family and community land, adjudication areas, and mineral-bearing land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCoast
Kwale combines historic coastal grants, community and family land, settlement schemes, and mineral-bearing land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Laikipia combines large ranches, conservancies, settlement schemes, and urban subdivisions. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCoast
Lamu combines historic grants, community land, settlement schemes, and coastal and mangrove land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideEastern
A rapidly urbanising county bordering Nairobi, with high-growth towns like Athi River, Mlolongo and Syokimau experiencing intense land speculation and subdivision fraud.
County guideEastern
Makueni combines family land, agricultural smallholdings, and transport-corridor subdivisions. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNorth Eastern
Mandera combines community land, pastoral land, and border-town allotments. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideEastern
Marsabit combines community land, pastoral land, conservancies, and border-town allotments. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideEastern
Meru combines adjudicated family land, agricultural smallholdings, and urban leaseholds. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNyanza
Migori combines family and agricultural land, mining areas, border-town plots, and lakefront land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCoast
Kenya's second-largest city and main port, with a complex land tenure history involving historic grants, beach plots and high-value coastal parcels that attract significant fraud.
County guideCentral
Murang'a combines agricultural smallholdings, family land, and peri-urban subdivisions. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNairobi
Kenya's capital city and the most active land market in the country, with the highest volume of land transactions, court cases, and gazette notices.
County guideRift Valley
A major Rift Valley county with rapidly growing urban land markets around Nakuru City, Naivasha and Gilgil, and a history of post-election land disputes and ethnic displacement.
County guideRift Valley
Nandi combines tea estates, agricultural smallholdings, and family land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Narok combines group ranch and community land, conservancies, agricultural expansion, and tourism leases. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNyanza
Nyamira combines dense agricultural smallholdings, family land, and tea-growing land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCentral
Nyandarua combines settlement schemes, agricultural farms, and wetland and forest-edge land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCentral
Nyeri combines agricultural smallholdings, colonial-era farms, and urban leaseholds. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Samburu combines community land, pastoral land, conservancies, and wildlife corridors. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNyanza
Siaya combines family and agricultural land, adjudication areas, and lakefront land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCoast
Taita-Taveta combines large ranches, community and family land, mining areas, and park-adjacent land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideCoast
Tana River combines community land, irrigation and settlement schemes, and riverine and pastoral land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideEastern
Tharaka-Nithi combines adjudicated family land, agricultural smallholdings, and dryland community interests. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Trans Nzoia combines large farms, settlement schemes, and agricultural subdivisions. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Turkana combines community land, pastoral land, oil and infrastructure corridors, and lakefront land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
Home to Eldoret, Kenya's fifth-largest city and a major agricultural and commercial hub, with land disputes driven by farm subdivision, post-conflict claims and rapid urbanisation.
County guideWestern
Vihiga combines very dense family smallholdings, urban roadside plots, and agricultural land. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideNorth Eastern
Wajir combines community land, pastoral land, and urban allotments. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
County guideRift Valley
West Pokot combines community and family land, pastoral land, and agricultural settlement areas. Parcel verification should connect the title and seller to local allocation, subdivision, succession, planning, court, Gazette, and physical-context records.
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