Legal Advisory: Practicality of Manual Land Registration at the Nairobi Central Registry (June 2025)
**** **To:** Clients, Property Developers, Advocates, and Investors in Kenya **From:** [Your Law Firm/Legal Advisory Service] **Date:** June 19, 2025 --- **Subject: Navigating Manual Land Registration at the Nairobi Central Registry in the Era of Ardhi Sasa** **1. Current Landscape: The Dominance of Ardhi Sasa** It is critical to understand that the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, through the **National Land Information Management System (Ardhi Sasa)**, has largely digitized land transactions across Kenya, including Nairobi. Launched with the explicit aim of transitioning from manual operations to digital transactions, Ardhi Sasa is now the primary, and in most cases, mandatory platform for land-related services. This includes official searches, transfers, charges, payment of land rent, and conversion of title deeds. **Therefore, the practicality of conducting purely manual registration at the Nairobi Central Registry is now extremely limited and largely pertains to speci...