Various Developments At The Lands Registries

The Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning (Lands Ministry) has been spearheading various projects for slightly over a year including: digitization of records, geo-referencing of land parcel boundaries, conversion of titles, national titling amongst other institutional reforms.

We have set out below a summary of the various developments that may impact your property transactions in Kenya.

Sectional Properties Act, 2020

The Sectional Properties Act, 2020 (the SPA 2020) came into force on 28 December 2020 and repealed the Sectional Properties Act, 1987 (SPA 1987). It provides for:

• the division of buildings into units to be owned by individual proprietors;
• common property to be owned by the proprietors of the units as tenants in common; and