Know before
you buy.
Verify land ownership, litigation status, and parcel history in under five minutes. Built for Ghana's land market.
Free to download · 1 check per month on Starter
52,400+
Parcels indexed
16
Regions covered
4m 12s
Median check time
Daily
Court record refresh
99.5%
12-month uptime
38 MB
App download
How it works
From search to safe purchase
in four steps.
Search the parcel
Parcel number, GPS pin, or address.
See the custodian
Registered owner with source and last-updated date.
Check litigation
Any active case, dispute, or judgment on the title.
Download the report
Timestamped PDF with all source data attached.
Who it's for
Three kinds of buyers.
One shared concern.
Whether you're buying your first plot, running a law firm, or underwriting a mortgage — the question is always the same. Is this land safe?
For individual buyers
Protect your deposit
Before money changes hands, confirm the seller actually owns the land and no one is disputing it.
- —Verify custodian before paying a deposit
- —Check for active court cases
- —Get exact GPS coordinates
- —Export a report for your lawyer
For lawyers & agents
Client diligence at speed
Land searches that used to take a week of legwork at the Lands Commission now take five minutes.
- —Title search on demand
- —PDF verification reports for the file
- —Watchlist for ongoing deals
- —Bulk search for multi-plot portfolios
For banks & insurers
Collateral verification
Before accepting land as collateral, confirm custodian, litigation status, and any registered encumbrances.
- —Collateral check before loan approval
- —Encumbrance and mortgage search
- —Batch verification via API
- —White-label reports for underwriting
In practice
Four moments when Landefy
saved someone money.
01
Individual buyer · Accra
The plot with a hidden case
Kwame was buying a plot in East Legon. The seller showed him a title document, the land looked clean, and the price was fair. Before paying the GH₵ 180,000 deposit, he ran a Landefy check — and found a case filed three months earlier by the seller's brother, disputing the family's right to sell.
He walked away. The case is still in court.
02
Lawyer · Kumasi
Client diligence at ten times the speed
Ama runs a small property law practice. Client diligence used to mean two trips to the Lands Commission — one to file, one to collect, often weeks apart. Now she runs five checks a morning, exports the reports into the client file, and has time to review the actual documents instead of chasing paper.
Billable hours up. Turnaround on client matters from weeks to days.
03
Bank · Tema
The collateral that wasn't collateral
A commercial bank was about to accept a parcel as security for a GH₵ 900,000 loan. Landefy flagged the parcel as active litigation — a case the borrower had not disclosed. The bank verified through their own channels, confirmed the case, and restructured the loan to different security.
A GH₵ 900,000 exposure avoided for the cost of a single check.
04
Real estate agency · Takoradi
The listing that closed in a week
An agency was struggling to close a resale. Buyers kept pulling out over paperwork concerns. They started including a Landefy report with every listing — custodian, litigation status, coordinates, history. The next buyer had no questions that couldn't be answered by the report.
Closed in seven days. The agency now runs a check on every listing before it goes up.
How data flows
From record to decision
in four stages.
01
Source
We pull records from the Lands Commission, court registries, OASL, and the Survey Department on scheduled refresh cycles. Each source has its own cadence.
02
Normalise
Records arrive in different formats — PDFs, spreadsheets, XML. We normalise them into a single schema, deduplicate, and link parcels across sources.
03
Verify
Every record is stamped with its source and last-updated date. Conflicting records from different sources are flagged, not silently merged.
04
Deliver
You search, we return the parcel record in under five minutes, with every field traceable to its original source.
Data sources
We don't guess.
We aggregate.
Every result traces back to an authoritative source — with the last-updated date visible on every check.
Lands Commission
Registered parcels, custodians, and title records from the national land registry.
Court registries
Active and historical land litigation from High Courts, Circuit Courts, and District Courts.
Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands
OASL data for stool land transactions, ground rent, and customary interests.
Licensed surveyors
Parcel boundaries, GPS coordinates, and cadastral maps from the Survey Department.
Ghana Card (NIA)
National ID verification during onboarding and identity confirmation.
Regional dispute registries
Aggregated dispute data by region — land guards, DOIs, and dispute concentration.
Coverage
All sixteen regions.
One index.
14,200
Greater Accra
9,800
Ashanti
4,600
Western
5,300
Central
4,100
Eastern
3,400
Volta
2,800
Northern
1,900
Bono
1,100
Bono East
800
Ahafo
1,200
Western North
700
Oti
900
Savannah
600
North East
500
Upper East
400
Upper West
Parcel counts as of 22 September 2026. Updated monthly as new records are indexed.
Data dictionary
What every field means.
Land law has its own vocabulary. Here's what each term on a Landefy report actually means — and what it doesn't.
Custodian
The person, family, stool, or state on record at the Lands Commission as the owner of the parcel. This is who legally holds title. Note: custodian is not necessarily the same as occupant, and never the same as the person who merely 'claims' the land.
Occupant
The person physically present on the land. Occupants may be tenants, licensees, or squatters. An occupant is not automatically the custodian. If a parcel has an occupant who is not the custodian, ask why.
Registered interest
Any legal right recorded against the parcel other than outright ownership — including mortgages, charges, easements, caveats, and court-ordered restrictions. Every registered interest must be disclosed to a buyer before sale.
Caveat
A formal notice registered against the title that says a third party has a claim on the land. A caveat blocks the Lands Commission from registering a transfer until it's resolved. Seeing a caveat on a parcel is a red flag.
Litigation status
Whether there is an active court case, pending judgment, or recent dispute attached to the parcel. Green means no case on record, amber means a matter is under review, red means an active case is before the courts.
Encumbrance
Any claim against the land that reduces its value or restricts its use — a mortgage, a lien, a lease, an easement, or a judgment. A parcel can be cleanly owned by the custodian but still carry encumbrances.
Stool land
Land held in trust by a traditional authority (a stool or skin) on behalf of the community. Transactions in stool land follow customary processes in addition to statutory ones. All stool land transactions must be confirmed through OASL.
Source date
The date the record was last updated at the original source. Different sources update at different cadences. If a record is over 90 days old, verify it manually before relying on it.
Features
Everything you need
before you buy.
Search any parcel
Parcel number, GPS coordinates, region, district, or street address.
True custodian
Who the land actually belongs to — not who claims to own it.
Litigation status
Real-time court records for disputes, cases, and judgments.
Parcel history
Owners, sale dates, transfers, mortgages, and registered interests.
Exact coordinates
Precise GPS and boundary data. Confirm the parcel on the ground.
Verification reports
Timestamped PDFs with source data for legal and bank files.
Parcel watchlist
Get notified when litigation or ownership status changes.
Dispute hotspots
See which areas have the highest concentration of disputes.
Report anatomy
What a report
actually looks like.
Every field. Every source. Every last-updated date. Here's the structure of a Landefy verification report.
Landefy verification report
Parcel 1234/2025 · East Legon
Generated
22 Sep 2026 · 14:34 GMT
IDENTITY
LITIGATION
HISTORY
COORDINATES
This report is a factual snapshot of records at the sources shown. It is not a legal opinion. For high-value transactions, verify with the source directly and engage a qualified lawyer.
Specifications
The details.
In writing.
Coverage
- Regions
- All 16 regions of Ghana
- Parcels indexed
- 52,400+ registered parcels
- Court records
- High Court, Circuit Court, District Court
- Stool land records
- OASL — all stool land areas
- Survey data
- Survey Department + licensed surveyors
- Update frequency
- Courts: daily · Lands Commission: weekly · Survey: on deposit
Device support
- iOS
- iOS 14.0 and above
- Android
- Android 8.0 (API 26) and above
- Installed size
- 38 MB (iOS) · 42 MB (Android)
- Network
- 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G — optimised for low bandwidth
- Offline mode
- Report caching for 30 days
- Languages
- English · Twi · Ga (in progress)
Security
- Encryption at rest
- AES-256 (PostgreSQL and object storage)
- Encryption in transit
- TLS 1.3
- Authentication
- Ghana Card verification + OTP
- Data residency
- Ghana — on-prem or Ghana-hosted cloud
- Compliance
- Data Protection Act 843 · GDPR-ready
- Audit logging
- Immutable · 7-year retention
Performance
- Median check time
- 4 minutes 12 seconds
- p95 check time
- 6 minutes 40 seconds
- Uptime (12 months)
- 99.5% measured
- API latency (p99)
- 180 ms
- Concurrent users supported
- 50,000+
- Batch processing
- Up to 1,000 parcels per upload (Business)
Privacy
Your searches
are yours.
We never tell the seller
Sellers, agents, and other users have no way to know you checked a parcel. Your search history is visible only to you.
Encrypted end to end
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We use the same standard that banks use for account information.
Compliant with Act 843
Landefy operates under Ghana's Data Protection Act. Your data is not sold, shared, or used for advertising.
Delete at any time
You can export your full search history or delete your account from within the app. No email requests required.
Inside the app
Three screens. The whole truth.
Pricing
What a check actually costs.
Priced per check. No hidden fees. Cancel any time.
Starter
One check per month. Try before you trust.
- 1 check/month
- Custodian name
- Litigation status flag
- 1 user seat
Single Check
One parcel, one full report. No subscription.
- 1 full report
- Full custodian lineage
- Complete case details
- PDF export
Pro
Recommended100 checks a month for professionals.
- 100 checks/month
- Watchlist up to 20 parcels
- Bulk search (10 parcels)
- Email support
Business
For firms and institutions doing volume.
- 1,000 checks/month
- 5 team seats
- REST API + bulk CSV
- White-label reports
Compared to
What you get, versus
the alternatives.
Option
Time
Cost
What it covers
Landefy
4–6 minutes
GH₵ 0–120
Custodian, litigation, history, coordinates, source dates
Lands Commission search
2 wks – 12 mo
GH₵ 132–237
Ownership record only. No litigation, no history, no coordinates.
Lawyer full diligence
5–15 days
GH₵ 5,000–15,000
Everything, plus legal opinion and representation. Slowest.
BoG Collateral Registry
Same day
GH₵ 10
Encumbrances only. Does not confirm custodian or litigation.
Do nothing
Instant
Free
Nothing. The most common — and most expensive — option.
Landefy is not a substitute for legal due diligence. For high-value transactions, use Landefy first to filter out obviously unsafe parcels, then engage a lawyer for the ones worth pursuing. That's the sequence that saves the most money and time.
Download
Get Landefy before
your next land deal.
Free to download. Starter gives you 1 check per month. Single Check unlocks a full report for GH₵120.
Direct APK download is Android only. iOS users must install through the App Store. v1.0.0 · 38 MB · Requires Android 8.0+
What we don't do
Landefy is a tool.
Not a substitute for advice.
Every product has limits. Here are ours, in writing, before you pay us anything.
We don't verify physical condition
Buildings, encroachments, terrain, access roads. Landefy tells you what the record says, not what the land looks like. Visit the site. Bring a surveyor if the parcel is unusual.
We don't confirm the seller's legal right to sell
You can have a clean custodian record and still be dealing with someone who isn't authorised to transfer the land — a family member without consent, an agent without authority, an heir without probate. That's a lawyer's job.
We don't process transfers
Landefy doesn't file documents with the Lands Commission, doesn't draft contracts, and doesn't represent you. If you need a transfer done, you need a lawyer and a Lands Commission filing.
We don't give legal opinions
A Landefy report is a fact-finding document. It says what the record says. It does not say whether a transaction is safe, advisable, or legally sound. That's a legal opinion, and it's not ours to give.
We don't guarantee completeness
No database of Ghanaian land records is complete. A parcel not appearing in Landefy may still exist. An absence of litigation in our records doesn't guarantee no litigation exists. Court records are imperfect — that's why daily refresh matters and why we show last-updated dates.
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