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Ownership chain & party risk

Who has owned a parcel, and who owns it now, matters as much as the parcel itself. Rapid transfers, recycled names, and directorship patterns are how many land frauds are staged.

Aerial view of demarcated Kenyan land parcels and boundaries — the registry and survey identifiers ArdhiScore cross-checks

What we check

  • The full chain of registered transfers and the parties in it.
  • Unusually rapid or circular transfers before a sale.
  • Company and directorship links behind corporate owners.
  • Names that recur across disputed or cancelled titles.

Why it matters

A clean title in the wrong hands is still a bad deal. Understanding the ownership chain surfaces the fraud patterns that a single-point registry check can never reveal.

Where this comes from

  • Transfer and registration history
  • Company registry references
  • Court and cancellation records

See it in an ArdhiScore

Every finding above rolls into one number, 0 to 1000, with each point cited to its source.

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