Property Law Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Property Managers, Real Estate Managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 7 Nov 2026 Course code SD-L-029

Before you join: Participants should have workplace exposure to property transactions, leases, facilities, lending, development, contracts or legal administration.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Property transactions and property operations can fail through defects in title, unclear rights of access, weak lease terms, missed registration steps or poorly allocated risk. Staff who acquire, lease, finance, manage or develop property need to identify the legal interests involved, obtain the right evidence and escalate issues before commitments become expensive disputes. This course addresses the legal questions that arise from initial due diligence through completion, occupation, enforcement and dispute resolution.

Participants examine the foundations of property rights, registered and unregistered title, land interests, conveyancing, leases, easements, covenants, secured lending and development controls. They learn to read title records and property documents, apply the IRAC method to property-law problems, structure a due diligence review, identify contractual protections and assess remedies. The programme also addresses property management duties, service charges, insurance, tenant default and dispute routes. Legal principles are explained with reference to the applicable local jurisdiction, while retaining transferable methods for identifying risks and documenting advice.

Teaching combines instructor briefings, document-based case work, group analysis, negotiation simulations and guided application planning. Cases reflect commercial premises, development sites, secured lending transactions and contested rights of use. Participants leave with a property transaction risk register, title review checklist, lease clause review model, completion checklist, dispute triage framework and a property matter action plan. The five-day instructor-led course is available in classrooms in more than 50 cities or live online, with 6.5 contact hours each day. Participants receive a certificate of completion.

What you will be able to do

  • Interpret title registers, plans and supporting instruments to identify ownership and priority issues
  • Apply the IRAC method to assess property-law claims and competing interests
  • Prepare a property due diligence risk register covering legal, planning and operational matters
  • Draft and review core sale agreement and lease clauses for risk allocation
  • Assess easements, restrictive covenants, boundaries and access rights using documentary evidence
  • Evaluate mortgage security, lender priorities and enforcement options
  • Select appropriate remedies and dispute-resolution routes for property disputes
  • Produce a documented action plan for a property acquisition, lease or management matter

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Read title records and identify issues requiring legal escalation
  • Review lease provisions with greater confidence during renewals and negotiations
  • Recognise property rights affecting access, development and property use
  • Communicate property risks clearly to lawyers, lenders and senior decision-makers
  • Build evidence-based recommendations for acquisitions, disposals and disputes

For your organisation

  • Earlier identification of title, boundary and access defects before transaction commitment
  • Better allocation of repair, default and compliance risk in property agreements
  • More consistent due diligence records for acquisitions, leases and secured lending
  • Reduced exposure from missed notices, registration requirements and limitation periods
  • Improved coordination between property, legal, finance and facilities teams

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can classify property interests and apply a structured method to analyse property-law issues.

  • Sources of property law: statutes, case law, equity and local regulations
  • Classifying real property, fixtures, chattels and incorporeal interests
  • Freehold, leasehold and condominium interests distinguished by duration and incidents
  • Legal and equitable interests analysed using priority and notice rules
  • IRAC method applied to possession, ownership and competing claims
  • Recording assumptions where local legislation changes the general rule

Participants can review ownership evidence and identify title defects, priority issues and required searches.

  • Reading title registers, parcel plans and cadastral references
  • Chain-of-title review identifies breaks, missing instruments and authority defects
  • Registered and unregistered systems compared through priority and notice
  • Priority searches reveal charges, restrictions, easements and pending dealings
  • Adverse possession assessed against statutory periods, possession and intention
  • Title opinion structure separates facts, risks, qualifications and conclusions

Participants can scope and document due diligence for a proposed property acquisition.

  • Pre-contract due diligence scope defined through a property risk register
  • Searches cover title, planning, environmental, tax and utility matters
  • Seller disclosure reviewed for misrepresentation, omission and contractual remedies
  • Survey findings translated into price, warranty, indemnity or walk-away decisions
  • Conditions precedent allocate approval, financing and third-party consent risk
  • Transaction timetable maps exchange, completion, registration and post-completion filings

Participants can review property sale terms and plan the legal steps to completion.

  • Heads of terms distinguish commercial points from binding commitments
  • Sale agreement clauses allocate title, condition, default and remedy risk
  • Deposit, escrow and stakeholder arrangements protect performance before completion
  • Representations, warranties and indemnities matched to diligence findings
  • Completion mechanics specify documents, funds flow, possession and releases
  • Remedies assessed: specific performance, damages, rescission and termination

Participants can assess major lease provisions and identify landlord and tenant exposures.

  • Lease anatomy identifies premises, term, rent, repair and alienation provisions
  • Rent review clauses tested for indexation, market review and dispute mechanisms
  • Repairing covenants allocate structural, service-charge and dilapidations exposure
  • Assignment, subletting and change-of-control provisions examined for consent requirements
  • Break clauses checked against notice, conditions and vacant-possession requirements
  • Landlord remedies compared: forfeiture, rent recovery, guarantees and deposits

Participants can analyse rights affecting land use, access and relations with neighbouring owners.

  • Creating easements by express grant, implication, prescription and necessity
  • Rights of way, access, drainage and utility rights interpreted
  • Restrictive covenants tested for benefit, burden, notice and enforceability
  • Positive obligations managed through covenants, rentcharges and estate schemes
  • Boundary evidence evaluated using plans, monuments, conduct and survey data
  • Neighbour disputes assessed through injunctions, damages and negotiated releases

Participants can assess property security, lender protections and enforcement risks.

  • Mortgage and charge structures distinguish legal security from equitable security
  • Lender due diligence tests title, priority, valuation and insurance requirements
  • Security documents address covenants, events of default and enforcement powers
  • Priority agreements regulate intercreditor ranking, subordination and release mechanics
  • Receivership, foreclosure and power-of-sale routes compared under applicable law
  • Completion checklists coordinate lender conditions, filings and security registration

Participants can identify property-law constraints affecting development proposals and site acquisition.

  • Planning permissions, zoning controls and building approvals assessed before acquisition
  • Development agreements allocate site assembly, approvals, infrastructure and delay risk
  • Construction interfaces distinguish land rights, procurement duties and completion obligations
  • Environmental liabilities examined through contamination, remediation and statutory notices
  • Heritage, coastal and conservation constraints incorporated into development conditions
  • Community benefit and affordable-housing obligations evaluated for project viability

Participants can manage legal issues arising during property occupation and ongoing administration.

  • Property manager authority defined through agency appointments and delegated limits
  • Service-charge budgets reconcile lease provisions, recoverability and consultation duties
  • Insurance clauses allocate reinstatement, premiums, excesses and rent-loss cover
  • Health and safety duties mapped between owner, occupier and contractor
  • Tenant default notices preserve remedies while meeting statutory requirements
  • Data rooms retain leases, consents, certificates and critical correspondence

Participants can triage a property dispute and create a controlled response plan.

  • Dispute triage separates urgent preservation steps from merits assessment
  • Without-prejudice negotiations planned using interests, alternatives and settlement authority
  • Arbitration, mediation and court routes selected by clause and remedy
  • Evidence files organise title documents, correspondence, photographs and witness accounts
  • Limitation periods and notice deadlines diarised before rights are lost
  • Property matter action plan assigns decisions, advisers, dates and controls

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Property due diligence risk register
  2. Title review checklist
  3. Sale agreement clause checklist
  4. Commercial lease review model
  5. Property completion checklist
  6. Property dispute triage framework

Who should attend

  • Property Managers — need to interpret leases, owner duties and tenant remedies
  • Real Estate Managers — need to assess legal risks in acquisitions and disposals
  • In-House Counsel — need a structured approach to routine property matters
  • Facilities Managers — need to understand occupation rights, repair duties and access issues
  • Credit and Lending Officers — need to assess property security and lender priority
  • Development Managers — need to manage land rights, approvals and development obligations

Skills and tools covered

Title due diligenceLease clause reviewProperty risk allocationLand rights analysisSecurity documentationProperty dispute triage

Tools and standards

IRAC method, Land Registry title register, Heads of Terms, Completion statement

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish legal principles, followed by property-document analysis, case discussions, group exercises and negotiation simulations. Participants work with title records, sale clauses, leases, security documents and dispute scenarios resembling commercial property matters. The instructor demonstrates IRAC analysis, risk-register design and document review methods, then guides participants in applying them to their own responsibilities. Each participant develops an action plan for improving property-law issue spotting, escalation and record keeping.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have workplace exposure to property transactions, leases, facilities, lending, development, contracts or legal administration. They should be comfortable reading business documents and following a structured legal argument. Familiarity with basic contract concepts, such as offer, acceptance, breach and remedies, is useful but not essential. This is an intermediate course, so it is not designed as a first introduction to law. A law degree, professional legal qualification, prior conveyancing experience or ability to draft formal legal documents is not required.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should have some workplace exposure to property, contracts, facilities, lending, development or legal administration. A law degree or previous conveyancing role is not required, but the course assumes comfort reading business documents.

Bring a laptop or tablet if you prefer to work electronically, plus any questions from current property matters. You may bring redacted leases, title records or transaction documents where your employer permits this and confidentiality is protected.

It suits property managers, real estate managers, in-house counsel, facilities managers, lending staff and development managers. It is particularly useful for staff who work with external lawyers but need to identify issues and ask informed questions.

This course covers the wider legal life cycle of property: title, acquisition, leases, land rights, secured lending, development, management and disputes. A conveyancing course focuses more narrowly on transfer procedure, while a real estate finance course concentrates on lending structures and investment analysis.

Participants can use the title review checklist, due diligence risk register and lease review model on live or upcoming matters. The course also helps them prepare better instructions for lawyers, surveyors, lenders and property advisers.

The course provides approximately 32.5 contact hours, with training from 08:30 to 16:30 each day. Time is divided between legal briefings, document review, cases, group work, simulations and action planning.

Questions about this course?

Ask about dates, fees, group bookings or running it for your team. Our training team replies by email.

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