Any part of Mahera is always a short distance away from the coast line with its natural sand.  You can also choose land, inland at other locations around Mahera.  

When you buy, a local official Surveyor partitions the land and has it registered. He/she will later produce the Deed which  makes you the owner of the land, after the necessary registration processes are completed.  You can have a next of kin's name added to the Deed if you want. 

Most probably, you will be buying from outside Sierra Leone.  We will highly recommend that you are either in place in person at some stage or have a reliable person there to see the process go through on your behalf.  Unless you instruct otherwise, we would prefer to hand the papers to you personally!

 ADDITIONAL  COSTS:

30% down payment or deposit.

 Surveyor's fees;

Land registration fees;

Local Authories;

Regional fees;

Other costs that are optional but strongly advisable:

High pillars to demarcate your land (locally ought materials and workmanship)

We would highly recommend putting up a wall fence round the plot as soon as you own the land(locallly bought materials and workmanship)

When you are ready to build, planning permission is required

The whole process, after identifying the land will take about six weeks.

Please note that the process here is done at local level and therefore the system is not necessarily the same as in other parts of the country;