The need for modern real estate management in urban Ethiopia : the case of Bahir Dar City
Moges, Elkamu Belachew
In Ethiopia, real estate management has been generally based on traditional and customary institutions and laws. Ethiopian Urban centers in general and Bahir Dar in particular, being the centre of one of the most populous regions in Ethiopia, Amhara Region, can not tolerate inefficient real estate management any longer. Socio-economic issues and issues of sustainable development encircle the need for effective cadastral and land registration development in Bahir Dar. If appropriate cadastral services are not put in place and examined from time to time as the urban expansion continues, the city will undoubtedly face high infrastructural costs and worse socio-economic problems. Neither will the urban development policy of the country be effectively applied in the city. This paper clearly shows the importance of effective or modern real estate management in the context of cadastre and land registration together with the basic features of same. The core of the paper is that it concisely puts the short history of cadastre in Bahir Dar and implicates its future trends as it is and as it ought to be. It assesses the factual situations with regard to cadastre and land registration in Bahir Dar and then evaluates the system based on the institutional, legal and technical evaluation criteria.
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