Our team offers research services in the six cognate areas of our specialization. Some are contracted research while some are of our cause. Access to contracted research documents is limited but can be available upon request and consent by the contracting client. Current researches done include:
Legal Regulations for Valuation and Transparency in the Real Estate Market in Tanzania, a research report published as conference proceeding; FIG Working Week, Orlando,...
Just access to land for housing in Tanzania, a chapter in a book ‘Building the Just City in Tanzania- Essays on Urban housing; https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/tanzania/20135-20230614.pdf
Valuation Accuracy and Certainty in Developing Countries- A socio-Political Analysis- a research that sought to explain the growing problem of valuation accuracy, published by the International Journal of Real Estate and Planning,...
Land value capture in regularization schemes- research report presented at World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2020- https://www.oicrf.org/-/land-value-capture-in-land-tenure-regularization-projects
Dilemma of regulating residential real estate markets in developing countries, presented at an International conference Hanoi- https://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2019/ppt/ts02i/TS02I_komu_9818_ppt.pdf
Property Valuation Systems and Methods in Tanzania- An Empirical Analysis- Research report funded by SIDA through Ardhi University that investigated improvement areas in valuation methods -presented at FIG Conference -...
Revisiting Affordable Housing Strategies In Africa: The Social Justice Case: research that explored significance of land governance and institutional framework for delivery housing on an equitable basis and abiding with the principles of social justice and livelihood...
Design of Information Centre for Housing in Tanzania ( Contracted research), by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development which was based on best practice studies covering three countries ( Singapore, Kenya and South Africa.
Promoting affordable rental housing in Tanzania: This was an extended research work which resulted in a conference presentation available at https://www.auhf.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Promoting-affordable-rental-housing-in-Tanzania.pdf
Urban rental housing markets in Tanzania- the case of Dar es Salaam and Dodoma: This research seeks to deepen the previous rental research undertaken in Tanzania in 2018, by exploring the supply-side ecosystem of urban rental housing markets. The research focused on...
Conceptualizing Fair, Full and Prompt Compensation – the Tanzanian Context of Sustaining Livelihood in Expropriation Projects, a research on land acquisition and compensation problem, discussing the disparity between Tanzania and World Bank practices- available...
By Felician KOMU, Tanzania This paper argues for the need to adopt a uniform land titling system that does away with the customary land holding system in Tanzania and possibly other African countries. It departs from other existing literature that urges governments to...