Excision in process: Meaning of excision in progress 2021

What is Excision in Progress?

The first thing I want you to know is all land belongs to the government. Even a land with excision still belongs to the government. The government will revoke every right given on a land if it occupancy overrides public interest else in the case in which certificate of occupancy has been awarded to the owner of the land.

So what I am saying is even when you buy a land that already has an excision, the government might decide to still make use of it in the future, such cases where raw materials are discovered in the area and in many more cases where public interest is more than the individual or land occupant interest.  

Buying land with Excision is actually better than buying one without, but in any case whereby the government wants to make use of land with excision. The government has to pay you a fee like they are buying your land from you at the current market value of your land and the property on it.

Excision in progress

This group of words basically means the application of excision of the particular land has been filed in the ministry by the ancestral family who own the Land.

Most times this is used by real estate companies especially in ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State around the Lekki free trade zone and Epe town to deceive people that their plots of land will soon receive full Excision from the government.

In most cases what these real estate companies do is file for Excision from the government, get a file number and never proceed to finish or process their excision which they always called Excision in progress.

This is a rampart because most Estate or real estate companies just want to make a profit selling land as quickly as possible and move on to the next land to sell. This is just business as usual for most companies.

Should I buy land with Excision in progress?

This is a great question because most of the land for sale in Lagos State are actually without excision from the state government. less than 40% or 30% of the lands in Lagos State do have an Excision. While buying a land with the Excision is Great, Land without an excision are available more.

I know you are thinking, is it that the state doesn't want us to build or buy lands? The answers is No and these are steps to follow in buying a land:

The first thing to do is to hire a surveyor

Before we continue, I would like to make some recommendation of professionals:
I Recommend:
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They provide the service of Land surveying in Lagos, Ogun or anywhere in Nigeria.
For Land Documentation (C of O Processing)
All land Investigation before you buy any property.

Why I Recommend OME Land Surveyor And Consultants:
The CEO Holds Bachelor of Tech in Surveying And Geo-Informatics from FUTMINNA.

He is the Engineering Land Surveyor | Hydrographer | Survey Plan Cartographer at OME Land Survey And Mapping.

Also this firm is a complete package because they have all professional on board including lawyers to help with your deed of assignment. 

This is the very first step that can save you a lot of trouble either before you buy land or after you buy a land.

The Surveyor should be paid to actually help you verify the status of the Land, The status of the Land should be a committed land or a land with excision or a land that is not committed and has no excision.

Even though a land is said to have an excision in progress, it can either be one of the three listed above either it is a committed land or a free land (not yet verified status).

A committed land is a no-go area, these lands are already subject to future government use, any property transaction or land transaction on parcel of land located in this area will be very risky.

But in the instance where such land have already been purchased, a surveyor should be contacted as soon as possible to start the documentation process and indicate the uniqueness of the purchased land in the plan and should also notify the lawyer of all uniqueness to be indicated in the deed of assignment.

Where a person will be very foolish is to buy any land from an estate location and allow the same person selling carry out documentation for them.

This should be totally avoided, no matter the ease of payment plan.

Any land that its status is not committed is still a good buy.

How To Fully Secure And Protect My Land After Buying:

The most important thing in buying a land is getting your surveyor to do the survey of the land after buying the land. This is actually more important than the receipt of the Land lol.

 for example when you buy a car from somebody you get a receipt from the person but you still have to get your own plate number from the government to know you are the owner of the car so that when the car is stolen it can be traced with the plate number, without the proper survey and documentation another person can claim to be the legal owner of the land.

Your land survey document is like your receipt of your car.

Remember I recommended a surveyor earlier on in this post, After the survey plan and recommendation have been received from the surveyor, the registered plan should be attached into an agreement that should be formed between the seller and the buyer by a lawyer to fully secure your land legally. 

The New Lagos:

Ibeju Lekki, popularly called the new Lagos by real estate agents and developers. 

Every day we see news like this;

And this

 they preach to us why ibeju lekki is the next big thing and the place to invest to get 100 times profits on out real estate and land investments.

But what they don't show is this

Firstly the truth is that ibeju lekki is the new Lagos and this is where real estate investors can and potentially will make 100 times profits in a few years time. The blessings in ibeju lekki is also why it is a risky place to buy lands or any other property, but if done well involving the right professionals then it is the right place for future investment.

What makes ibeju lekki land risky?

What makes the lands lucrative also makes it risky, because Lagos is a mega city and opening up ibeju Lekki to great investments needs planning. A lot of the land in ibeju has been committed to government use, a lot of the natives know this including real estate companies and in order to cash out on the great demand of land they in collaboration with real estate companies sell all the lands including the ones committed for government use. 

An example is when an estate was selling part of the land committed for airport in the future, wow this is a very risky investment for you.

Land with excision in ibeju lekki:

The Lagos state government is gradually opening up the town and given excision to some family land. What giving excision really means is that the family has full right to the area giving excision to and can sell or use for personal reasons.