FEATURES OF INFORMAL LAND MARKET IN PERI-URBAN AREAS OF BAUCHI:

A STUDY OF JANRUWA SETTLEMENT BAUCHI STATE NIGERIA
1Singhry I.M. and 2Umar .W.
1Estate Management Programme, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
2Surveying and Geoinformatics, Programme, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
Email: singhry1968@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This paper examined some features of informal land market especially in the provision of services in Janruwa. The head of households served as the sample of the study. Simple random
sampling technique was used in administering the questionnaires, while in analyzing the data obtained from the respondents descriptive statistics is employed. Most of the information
gathered was from the residents of the study area. Informal interviews were also held with some staff of state Urban Development Board and Ministry of Lands and environment. It was
found that, since the market operated outside any regulatory framework of the government, transactions in the markets were unrecorded; land purchases were exclusively funded through
personal savings; plots were subdivided which were below official standards set for even the low density residential areas; proliferation of informal settlements and there are little or even
non provision of basic services. A machinery for recording transaction in the market for the purpose of creating a cadastral data base for the area was recommended; activities of the
informal land market should be regulated by government to check the dubious activities of land agents, formal lending institutions should be encouraged to fund the market, Bauchi
State Urban Development Board should re-enforce planning and building regulations in Janruwa and Bauchi metropolis in general. Bauchi state government should also provide basic
services in the study area.