Tanzania has reduced the cost of planning and surveying a single plot in developed areas to TZS 130,000 under the 2021 Regularization Guideline.
The Deputy Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Kaspar Mmuya, announced the reduction on 31 August 2026 in Parliament in Dodoma.
He was responding to a question from the Member of Parliament for Mafinga Urban, Dickson Nathan Lutevele, who asked when the government would introduce affordable land surveying for residents of the Isalavanu, Bumilayinga, Rungemba and Saohill wards.
Mmuya explained that survey costs in developed areas are charged in line with the 2021 Regularization Guideline.
“The cost of planning and surveying a single plot is now TZS 130,000,” Mmuya said.
The new figure compares with previous costs that ranged between TZS 250,000 and TZS 400,000.
He noted that ordinary surveying which does not involve regularization is governed instead by the 2016 Plot Pricing Guideline.
Under that framework, costs depend on factors including the distance of the area being surveyed, the size of the area, the distance from base marks, the number of instruments used, and the cost of boundary markers, known as beacons.
Mmuya urged residents to use the opportunities provided under the guidelines to regularize and survey their properties through legal procedures to secure ownership.
Land Regularization Programme
The regularization exercise is a national programme aimed at identifying and formalizing informal settlements built without following urban planning procedures.
The exercise began in 2013 and was expected to be completed by 2023.
Residents were initially required to pay fees ranging from TZS 250,000 to TZS 350,000, which were later reduced to TZS 150,000 by then Land Minister William Lukuvi.
The TZS 130,000 fee therefore represents a further step in a cost-reduction trend that has been underway for roughly a decade, as the government has repeatedly cut fees to encourage more urban landholders to formalize titles and reduce unplanned settlement growth.
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