CR. Amanya Advocates is counsel to one of the largest affordable-housing companies in Uganda, and has built a formidable land department well versed with Uganda’s land laws — the mailo, freehold, leasehold and customary tenures, and the condominium regime now fully in operation.
The practice covers both ends of the work. On the registry side: searches, transfers, caveats, mortgages, conversions between tenures, and the orders that resolve a defective or contested title. On the development side: land acquisition, project structuring and construction contracting through to sale, subdivision and transfer. We advise investors, developers, landlords and tenants, and coordinate the approvals required from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, the National Environment Management Authority and Kampala Capital City Authority.
What we handle
- Title searches, verification and processing
- Purchase, sale and transfer of land
- Conversion of customary tenure to freehold, mailo or leasehold
- Registration of leases, reversions and surrenders
- Lodging, removal and withdrawal of caveats
- Mortgage documentation, registration and discharge
- Vesting orders, partition and sale orders
- Substitute and special certificates of title
- Registration of administrators on title
- Condominium developments and registration
- Real-estate project structuring and management
- Construction contracts and development advisory
- Land sale, lease and tenancy agreements
- Landlord and tenant matters, and rental collection
- Compliance with the Housing Act and related laws
- Environmental and land-use approvals from NEMA and KCCA
The instruction differs; the standard does not. Every engagement is scoped in writing and led by an advocate — with an honest and realistic evaluation of your land holding or development plan.