ali wrote:@ pablo....i see a potential danger in the way we are allowing brokers/ agents control the sector. I also blame the urbanites who just buy buy...please, as much as you can, do your research well, try get the owner where you can and use trusted referals. I noticed that guys even employ guys to mark proposed bypasses/highway and use such pretexts to hike prices...saying that such and such a road is being built and therefore, the land is prime
You are very right. People have to take time to go to the ground and do research. You have to make several trips and talk to differnt people not just the broker... infact, take a trip there without even notifying the broker at all.
Ask around at the shops around as you casually chat up the mama mboga or shopkeeper... you will get a feel of how things are. But if you sit and wait to buy land from the comfort of your chair, you are gonna pay for that comfort.... and it doesnt come cheap, you knot. Recently, i committed to a piece of land that i was about to pay double in the same area.... Got it at 1/2 the price i had been told by one broker!