Practical information guide

Documents required

• Identity document if the Djiboutian investor and residence permit for foreign investors
• Land request letter
• Business plan detailing your business project

Provisional concession title

Price per square meter of land

• Zone I: Old Djibouti Station: 25,000 DJF/m2
• Zone II: PK 20 to PK 23 south of RN 1: 2000 DJF to 3000 DJF
• Zone III: Douda – Nagad housing estates and their surroundings: 5000 DJF/m2.
• Zone IV: Balbala Sud housing estates – Nassib and their surroundings: 2000 DJF/m2
• Zone V: Balbala housing estates – PK 12 and their surroundings: 3,000 DJF/m2.

Processing time for land conservation and tax files: 72 hours

CONTACT INFORMATION

One-stop shop of the National Agency for the Promotion of Investment (ANPI)

Address: Boulevard of the Republic
PO Box 1884
Telephone: (+253) 21 33 34 00
Portal: https://www.guichet-unique.dj

Department of Housing and Urbanism

ZIS Boulaos Republic of Djibouti
BP 11
Telephone: (+253) 21 35 00 06
Telephone: (+253) 21 35 00 67
www.environment.dj

Direction des Domaines et de la Conservation Foncière: management of formalities and procedures facilitating the registration and transfer of properties

Ministerial City,
PO Box 13 Djibouti
(+253) 2132 51 89 (office)
othmansa@mefip.gov.dj
www.ministerefinances.dj

Contact
Ibrahim Waho Mohamed
+253 77 86 39 93
ibrahimdomaines@gmail.com

Investor access to land ownership

Through legal texts such as Law No. 177/AN/91 2nd L of October 10, 1991 on the organization of land, the Republic of Djibouti has undertaken vast reforms to facilitate access to land ownership for Djiboutian or foreign investors. .

These legal and institutional arrangements allow any Djiboutian or foreign investor, man or woman eligible for the benefits and guarantees of the investment code, to buy, rent or resell land belonging to the State or to a private owner. We will present in the table below a description of the services in charge of the management of land domains, procedures for access to land in Djibouti.

angle-left Document issued to the interested party

Document issued to the interested party

By land conservation

The sub-directorate of land registration issues the following documents:

 The certificate of ownership (for land under provisional concession
 The certificate of ownership
 The certificate of non-ownership
 The information sheet on a land title

These documents make it possible to obtain information on the existence or non-existence of real rights on a property, information on a property:

1. The certificate or certificate of ownership or certificate of non-ownership
• Documents to be provided: a copy of the identity card, validated passport or driving license and the land title number if possible;
• the cost: 1 stamp of 1000 DJF
• Delivery time: 48 hours
2. Land title information sheet
Documents to provide: The information request form duly completed and accompanied by an identity document.
• cost: 2500 DJF per request and per title
• Delivery time: 48 hours

By land registry:

1. The location plan
• The location plan is issued when the land title is created and is retrieved by the owner or concessionaire at the same time as the registration certificate or a copy of the land title.
• In the event of loss, the person concerned may request a second location plan by filling in that he must recover and deposit it with the appointments office.
• Delivery time: 48 hours

2. the ground plane
There are plans of the masses of the plots of land of the subdivisions and those of the old districts
• The mass plans of the plots of housing estates: it is issued only when the plot has been backfilled, compacted, obtained the certificate of compliance of the backfill, payment of the backfill tax and after final demarcation of the plot.
• The mass plans of the old districts: It is issued 72 hours after the demarcation of the plot or survey of the construction and after payment of the tax on embankments to the sub-directorate of land conservation

3. The simplified building permit
• This is a document issued for plots in the old quarters with an area of 150 m²
• It is issued after a deposit with the secretariat of the attached management of a copy of the certificate of registration of the ground plan and payment of the tax on embankments.

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