Real Estate Brokerage 101: The importance of a surveyor in acquiring a landed property [Part 1] By Chris Nii Abbosey 18 HOURS AGO A few years ago, I got a client who was referred to me after going through hell to acquire land previously. He showed me one of the site plans of the land he failed to acquire even after making payments. The land was engrossed into a dispute after it emerged that he was one of three persons to have bought the same land. To make matters worse, the land which they were showed to be the land as developed in the site plan was actually in the sea. Yes! You heard me right.