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Land Management Surveyor is a professionally
trained person to perform the functions mentioned above
with a degree in Land Economics and is a member of the
Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK), Land Management
chapter. The background of Land Economics equips such
a person with a wide range of knowledge on issues related
to the management and administration of the landed property
which includes land laws, surveying and valuation and
general economics. Such a professional is therefore
conversant with the whole development schemes to completion
and subsequent disposal of the property.
The diploma held by Land Management Surveyors from
ISK further equips such a person with better ways of
handling the process of land administration with a view
to achieving optimum returns from such land.
The mission of a land management surveyor is one of
"ensuring effective and efficient management and custody
of land resources in the country and provide technical
and professional services to property with a view to
getting maximum returns".
A Land Management Surveyor has three basic interests
in land as a resource for individual and national development:
- Optimum utilization and distribution of the land
resources at the nation's disposal to achieve a rapid
but balanced and coordinated social and economic development
of the nation as a whole
- Land as an investment to members of the general
public, private and public, limited liability companies,
cooperative societies, partnerships from which income
by way of stand premier and annual rent are derived
and
- Land as a source of tax revenue such as rates, capital
gains tax, stamp duty, estate duty and preparation
charges such as conveyance and registration fees.
Land management Surveyors are found in the public and
private sector, the surveyors' acts for the government
in the management of all lands by advising on the best
ways to: -
- Maximize utilization and distribution of the land
resource to achieve rapid but balanced and conditional
social and economic development
- Ensure that land as an investment gives the government
the income it requires by enforcing payment of stand
premium and annual rents.
- Administer the process of land administration in
the best ways so that the government achieves maximum
returns from the land held by its citizenry
- Scrutinizing and approving the development proposals
such as subdivisions, extension of leases, extension
/change of user, building plans transfers, charges
etc.
In private sector, the land management surveyors'
act as consultants to the public. They are usually called
upon by individuals and corporate clients to undertake
and implement the development processes on behalf. They
may be involved in the feasibility's studies and forecasting
on the development proposals, design and actual implementation
of these processes. They usually advise the clients
on the best development tools to adopt to achieve maximum
returns from the landed property.
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