Paper short abstract:

Based on a recent survey, this proposal aims to document land transactions in eight areas representatives of the new peri-urban parcelling operations. It examines the sales prices and variations in metropolitan peripheries, which have doubled the urbanised surface of Bamako in the last two decades.

Paper long abstract:

According to previous analyses in Bamako, land markets mainly affect the urban periphery, the already established city experiencing fewer transactions and being more affected by the critical issue of securing properties. However, the sources of information on these transactions are scarce. The Land register gives an idea about the titling process' impact on the land value collected by the country's political and economic elites, but no mention of their preliminary acquisitions price. The influence of this property registration on other legitimacies of sale and subdivision, more numerous, is hardly informed in terms of the cost for ordinary access to land and the ongoing speculative resales. Online advertisements of plots and houses for sale concern only a few candidates and rarely indicate bases of negotiation.

Looking at a representative sample of peri-urban settlements in a large spectrum of formal to informal parcelling operations, we analyse the sales reported by 287 informants surveyed in 2022. We first characterise the sellers, buyers and intermediaries involved recently in eight sectors and their rural environment. Some 672 transactions are more precisely described, 594 allowing a comparative inventory of prices and surfaces. For a broader discussion, we investigate the factors driving these variations per meter square related to the land location, source of information and sale, use of the parcels sold and parties involved in these transactions.