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Most Dar es Salaam residents living in all corners of its suburbs faced great challenges of acquiring land on which to build permanent houses of their own, a week long survey by The Guardian can affirm.
Some of the biggest challenges include availability of plots which could be easily obtained in far flung areas of the city and their prices a bit lower coupled with the high prices of building materials such as cement.
The areas now designated for new plots are Chanika, Pugu Kajiungeni, Msongola and Kigogo Fresh along Kisarawe road and Vikindu and Kisemvule along Kilwa road as well as Bunju all the way to Bagamoyo and Kibaha about 40 kilometers from the city.
Generally these are the areas one can get a plot on which to build a house, with the four road networks the major outlets to the city of Dar es Salaam. Other challenges faced have to do with transport which becomes expensive for ordinary workers when coming to work and going back home.
Even those with personal means of transport, the cost of fuel becomes yet another obstacle. The survey unveiled the fact that prices of plots in designated areas suitable for construction of residential buildings are rising.
Non-surveyed plots are being sold at higher prices as demand is hitting the roof, but in newly developed areas such as Majohe, Nyantira and Bomba Mbili within Ilala municipality a hectare of land is currently sold sat between Tsh. 3.5 million and Sh. 4 million.
This is a tremendous increase, says Matiko Megwe, a long time resident of Majohe kwa Mwanagati, a newly established suburb. Megwe bought his plot 25 years ago and waited for years for other people to start building as well.
The price of the same piece of land has now increased by over 20 times and could be fetched at over Sh. 5 million.
An Ilala municipal official said land prices in most areas on the approaches of the city of Dar es Salaam have been rising because the population is rapidly increasing and this swells up the need for having houses to accommodate people.
A government program to formalize the informal sector including surveying land and issuing title deeds to owners in various Dar es Salaam suburbs, has made the land more valuable aas the surveyed plots can be used as collaterals to borrow money from lenders.
A village chairman for Bomba Mbili village in Chanika ward, Said Bakiriu says that land will soon become a scarce commodity, judging from his own area which he said people are pushing to buy it.
Land and Human Settlements minister, Prof. Anna Tibaijulka has drawn strategic plans covering the entire country from the district level, surveying land in non-surveyed areas.
For Dar city alone, statistics show that up to December 2008 about 410,000 constructions in unplanned areas were identified. Around three quarters of the population within the city lives in squatter constructions.
However, about 150,000 home owners have been registered and given the deeds since 2002 when the exercise started. Coupled with rapid changes in newly built structures coming up in the city of Dar es Salaam, especially commercial and residential flats, the sector has witnessed a boom for the last 15 years.
Among the major players in the on-going real estate boom in the city and even in upcountry regions is turning out to be none other than real estate developers who have encouraged real estate agents for commercial renting for office and residential needs.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
Some of the biggest challenges include availability of plots which could be easily obtained in far flung areas of the city and their prices a bit lower coupled with the high prices of building materials such as cement.
The areas now designated for new plots are Chanika, Pugu Kajiungeni, Msongola and Kigogo Fresh along Kisarawe road and Vikindu and Kisemvule along Kilwa road as well as Bunju all the way to Bagamoyo and Kibaha about 40 kilometers from the city.
Generally these are the areas one can get a plot on which to build a house, with the four road networks the major outlets to the city of Dar es Salaam. Other challenges faced have to do with transport which becomes expensive for ordinary workers when coming to work and going back home.
Even those with personal means of transport, the cost of fuel becomes yet another obstacle. The survey unveiled the fact that prices of plots in designated areas suitable for construction of residential buildings are rising.
Non-surveyed plots are being sold at higher prices as demand is hitting the roof, but in newly developed areas such as Majohe, Nyantira and Bomba Mbili within Ilala municipality a hectare of land is currently sold sat between Tsh. 3.5 million and Sh. 4 million.
This is a tremendous increase, says Matiko Megwe, a long time resident of Majohe kwa Mwanagati, a newly established suburb. Megwe bought his plot 25 years ago and waited for years for other people to start building as well.
The price of the same piece of land has now increased by over 20 times and could be fetched at over Sh. 5 million.
An Ilala municipal official said land prices in most areas on the approaches of the city of Dar es Salaam have been rising because the population is rapidly increasing and this swells up the need for having houses to accommodate people.
A government program to formalize the informal sector including surveying land and issuing title deeds to owners in various Dar es Salaam suburbs, has made the land more valuable aas the surveyed plots can be used as collaterals to borrow money from lenders.
A village chairman for Bomba Mbili village in Chanika ward, Said Bakiriu says that land will soon become a scarce commodity, judging from his own area which he said people are pushing to buy it.
Land and Human Settlements minister, Prof. Anna Tibaijulka has drawn strategic plans covering the entire country from the district level, surveying land in non-surveyed areas.
For Dar city alone, statistics show that up to December 2008 about 410,000 constructions in unplanned areas were identified. Around three quarters of the population within the city lives in squatter constructions.
However, about 150,000 home owners have been registered and given the deeds since 2002 when the exercise started. Coupled with rapid changes in newly built structures coming up in the city of Dar es Salaam, especially commercial and residential flats, the sector has witnessed a boom for the last 15 years.
Among the major players in the on-going real estate boom in the city and even in upcountry regions is turning out to be none other than real estate developers who have encouraged real estate agents for commercial renting for office and residential needs.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
