Buying from abroad
You are in London. The land is in Prampram.
Everyone knows somebody whose money went home and came back as a story. We built a remote process so you never have to take a relative’s word about a wall, you see the plot, hold the documents, and watch it rise.
The story everyone knows.
Money sent to a trusted relative. A plot bought that nobody independent ever verified. A building that stopped at lintel level while the updates kept arriving. Photographs that, it turned out, were all taken the same week.
It is common enough that most people reading this can put a name to it. The failure is never the ambition, it is the distance, and the absence of proof across it. So we replaced trust-in-a-person with proof-you-can-check. That is the whole offer.
Proof at every step. Not a relationship you have to trust blind.
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A walkthrough of your actual plot
A live video call or a recorded walk of the specific plot, pillars, access road and neighbouring landmarks in shot, so you see the ground, not a stock aerial.
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Geo-referenced photographs
Photographs tied to the location, so the plot in the picture is provably the plot on the document.
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Documents to you and your lawyer
The full document pack goes to you and to a lawyer you appoint in Ghana, not just to us. Verification you control is the only verification worth having.
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Payments in writing, in stages
A written schedule, receipts for every transfer, and, if you build, money released against completed construction stages rather than against the calendar.
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Dated progress at every stage
Timestamped photographs at each construction stage, sent on WhatsApp, so “it’s coming along” always comes with a picture and a date.
Appoint your own people. We mean it.
A seller who welcomes your independent lawyer and your own person on the ground is a seller with nothing to hide. So we ask you to bring both.
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Instruct a Ghanaian lawyer
Your lawyer, chosen by you, to run the Lands Commission search and review the indenture. We will work with them, not around them.
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Send a trusted person to the site
A relative or friend who can stand on the plot independently of us and confirm what our video showed.
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Close with a Power of Attorney
A buyer who cannot travel can appoint someone in Ghana to sign and register on their behalf through a Power of Attorney. It must be notarised in the country you are living in, and then either apostilled under the Hague Convention or authenticated by the Ghana High Commission or Embassy, before a Ghana-based lawyer can act on it. It is a real process with real steps, and it is worth starting early.
Fifty years, not ninety-nine
If you hold a Ghanaian passport, you buy as a Ghanaian.
Ghanaians in the diaspora who hold Ghanaian citizenship are not affected by the fifty-year cap. If you hold a Ghanaian passport you buy on the same terms as a Ghanaian at home.
A non-citizen cannot hold a leasehold in Ghana for more than fifty years at any one time. Any purported grant of a freehold to a non-citizen is void. Marrying a Ghanaian, partnering with a Ghanaian, or buying through a Ghanaian-registered company does not change this: a company counts as a non-citizen if more than forty per cent of its equity is held by non-citizens.
Land Act, 2020 (Act 1036) s.10(1)–(2), s.10(6), s.10(9), s.10(10); 1992 Constitution art. 266. This is general information about Ghanaian land law, not legal advice. Confirm current fees, timelines and requirements with the Lands Commission and instruct your own lawyer before you transact.
Time zones, and how to reach us.
WhatsApp is the channel, message any time and we answer in Ghana hours. Ghana runs on GMT all year and does not change its clocks, so the gap to your city shifts when your city moves to summer time.
- Monday – Friday 8:00 – 17:00 GMT
- Saturday 9:00 – 15:00 GMT, site inspection day
- Sunday By appointment
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London
Same time, or Ghana 1 hour behind in British Summer Time
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New York
Ghana 4–5 hours ahead
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Toronto
Ghana 4–5 hours ahead
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Amsterdam
Ghana 1–2 hours behind
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Milan
Ghana 1–2 hours behind
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Anywhere else
Tell us your city on WhatsApp and we will work to your hours.
Then we build it.
The same company that sold you the plot can survey it, build on it, hire you the plant and supply the blocks, with staged payments and photographic reporting the whole way up. From abroad, one accountable party beats five you have never met.
What buyers abroad ask first.
You verify it independently. We give you the plot details and the documentation, and you run an official search at the Lands Commission, yourself, or through your own lawyer. We would rather lose a week to your due diligence than have you doubt the plot later. Any seller who discourages you from searching is telling you something important.
Yes. We take a deposit and agree an instalment schedule in writing before you pay anything. The terms depend on the location and the plot, so message us on WhatsApp with the location you are interested in and we will send the deposit and instalment options for that specific site.
Yes, and a large share of our buyers do. We run a documented remote process, video walkthrough of the actual plot, geo-tagged photographs, the full document pack sent to you and to your lawyer, and staged payments. See the Buying from abroad page for how it works.
Wherever you are reading this. Send one message.
Tell us the country you are in and what you want to do. We will explain exactly how the remote process would work for you.