THE PARTITION OF A LAND IN CAMEROON

THE PARTITION OF A LAND IN CAMEROON

Fragmentation is the action of dividing land following successive sales or sharing for the benefit of buyers. It is materialized by the delivery of a definitive and unassailable land title which reflects the official certification of real estate ownership on the concerned plot. It is therefore a special procedure for obtaining the land title.

The scenario for a division is as follows: the property subject to the transfer or dismemberment is already registered, but changes must be made to the land title as a result of events occurring after registration.

If you therefore wish to buy a lot of land and have a title established there or you have inherited a parcel of land and wish to establish a land title on it, this article responds in a few lines to your concern on the major issue of the division procedure in Cameroon.

 

THE PROPERLY SAID PARTY PROCEDURE

 

To benefit from a division, you must:

- Buy technical file request forms, to be completed and stamped, then file at the land registry which will issue you with a transfer report after payment of the fees;

- Remove the technical file to which must be attached, the request for an urban planning and accessibility certificate to be submitted to the mayor of the locality of the land;

- After issuance of the town planning and accessibility certificate by the mayor, ask using the land title number for the property certificate in the decentralized services of MINDCAF in order to reassure you of the seller's property and the fact that the land is not encumbered by any charge or mortgage; do this before any land purchase; the amount of this act is in principle 3000 FCFA, but for an express service, you can have it established between 10,000 and 25,000 FCFA.

 

- After withdrawal of the property certificate, please go to the notary, who will register the deed (5% of the price of the plot) and send the following file to the land registrar:

- Stamped application indicating the surnames and first names, filiation, domicile, matrimonial regime and nationality of the purchaser;

- A certified copy of your CNI;

- A plan of the building approved by the head of the cadastre service for the location of the land;

- The notarial act established according to the letter of art 8 of the ordinance of 74;

- A copy of the seller's initial land title.

 

In principle, the procedure takes 06 months and the notary is remunerated at 3% for land between 3 million and 10 million and% for those between 1 to 3 million. However, the disbursements (stationery or office costs) and the costs that the buyer owes the seller and that the notary has borne (registration fee, state taxes, advertising costs, etc.) must be reimbursed. Finally, you will have to spend 2% of the price of the plot to obtain the land title.

 

To view model deeds for the fragmentation process, click here.

 

THE NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK OF THE PARTICIPATION PROCEDURE

 

The fragmentation procedure must comply with the letter of the following legal texts:

  • The Ordinance of 74 establishing land tenure in Cameroon;
  • The decree of 76 setting the conditions for obtaining the land title and the decree of 2005 amending and supplementing it;
  • The decree of 76 relating to private real estate transactions;
  • The decree of 79 setting the rules relating to the creation of subdivisions and the decree of 90 amending and supplementing it;
  • The decree of 95 fixing the price of notarial acts and the decree of 2019 amending and supplementing it;
  • The 2004 law on town planning;
  • The General Tax Code;
  • The finance law.

 

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