Kumasi

Public administration

Lands Commission

National land administration body covering registration, survey and mapping, valuation, and public or vested land management. It routes title searches, registration and parcel-plan enquiries through its divisions and territorial service points.

Public administration

OASL

Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands

Office administering stool-land revenues and related ground-rent matters. Its regional contact list helps users find the relevant office for a ground-rent enquiry, alongside the separate land-registration functions of the Lands Commission.

Public administration

GRA

Ghana Revenue Authority

National revenue authority publishing official stamp-duty information for property instruments. Its customer-service and tax-centre routes help users direct enquiries involving acquisitions, leases and property-related tax matters.

Public administration

LUSPA

Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority

National spatial-planning authority publishing planning standards and procedures. Its framework permission covers specified development with wider impacts and is distinct from planning and development permits handled by district assemblies.

Public administration

AMA

Accra Metropolitan Assembly

Metropolitan local authority publishing development and building-permit guidance for its own jurisdiction. It also provides local property-rate information. Its remit does not extend to every municipality in Greater Accra.

Public company

SHC

State Housing Company Limited

Public housing company publishing development programmes and property management, leasing and regularisation services. Its customer enquiry routes help users identify available projects and the relevant office for a particular property.

Public administration

GIPA

Ghana Investment Promotion Authority

National investment promotion and facilitation authority, formerly GIPC. It provides investor guidance, project facilitation and aftercare, with property development among the sectors available through its public enquiry route.

Government department providing tenancy information and reconciliation for landlords and tenants. It offers a public starting point for guidance about a lease, rental concern or tenancy disagreement.

Professional body

GBA

Ghana Bar Association

National professional association for lawyers in Ghana. Its website links to a lawyer-finder tool and publishes secretariat contacts for institutional guidance when seeking legal counsel for a property matter.

Public administration

Engineering Council

Public regulator of engineering practice in Ghana. It publishes a licensed-practitioners register and information on firms, with an institutional route for registration and professional-conduct enquiries relevant to building projects.

Public regulator of real-estate agency practice. It licenses and supervises agents and brokers and provides an institutional route for verification enquiries or concerns about professional practice.

Public administration

GSS

Ghana Statistical Service

National official statistics service. Its demographic, social and territorial data help users examine population, households and housing, while a public data-request route supports enquiries for additional information.

Professional body

GhIS

Ghana Institution of Surveyors

Professional institution for land, quantity, valuation and estate surveyors. Its site provides member and firm search routes and information on dispute-resolution services involving boundaries, ground rent and construction.

Public administration

JSG

Judicial Service of Ghana

Ghana’s Judicial Service, with information about the court system and central contacts. It provides a route to ask which registry or authority to consult about a document, dispute or professional check.

ARC regulates the architectural profession in Ghana. Contact the council to ask how to check an architect and the scope of their practice.