I bought some land in Mombasa from a man based in Nairobi. It was a subdivision and we signed an agreement prepared and witnessed by a registered advocate. It was agreed that he would register and deliver the title deed to me within a period of 2 months. It has been 8 months now and he still claims the process is not completed. We communicate and his update is always the same: that the title deeds are almost ready but there is a "small" hitch. I have waited for far too long:
1. What should i do to recover the money from this land vendor? The agreement is still valid and i have all his personal details including ID/Passport numbers i got after a background check on him(Thanks to a wazuan here)
2. How can i check the progress of the titles being processed now that I'm far from Nairobi/Mombasa ?

Your thoughts and advice are welcome.

Organise mamboys to work on his knees and knee cup. Then you send him flowers in hosi

I do not want to go to the legalities of this case but i want to advice myself that in Kenya there are many people who call themselves 'land owners' just because they parted with some money to purchase a piece of land. Many people pay money for land but fail to follow up with the process that will put the tittle deed in their hands. They even get to enter the land but are shocked later to find out that the land does not legally belong to them because the transfer of the land has not yet taken place. I suffered this fate once, i trusted a colleague at work who had a piece of land to sell to me. I had just taken a sacco loan and i wanted to become a land owner. I took my mum and we surveyed the land and even took over the land. We had executed the land control board documents and the only thing remaining was to get the board approval so i could pay the final balance on only 20,000. I am tellign you even though i stayed on this land for about two years, i ended up vacating because the many refused to transfer the land or even finish the land board process. He conned me of my money which i later recovered through a court process. So please dont think that because your eyes have seen a piece of land, your feet have walked over that land and a lawyer has drafted the sale agreement that the land belongs to you. Always follow the whole process until you have the title deed in your hands and the deed has your actual name. Most of the land sales are con games, and it hard for sellers to do the right thing even though they take your money

Thanks for all the replies:
@ Mamu the seller had not finalised approval for the subdivision when i signed the agreement. It had been subdivided and there were beacons. However at the end of last year i was able to see the deed plan for the pieces of land including mine.Apparently he claimed approval for subdivision took very long but he claims it has been finalized and they are now preparing the titles at the land offices in NRB.
The agreement was that he would finalize all the registration process and deliver a title to me. He asked for my KRA pin, copy of Id and passport photos that were to be used in the registration. I have not been asked to sign any transfer papers at any point and i assumed the agreement would suffice.
Can he lodge the documents for registration without me having physically signed the transfer documents? I have been assuming that he can carry out the transfer without my physical signature. Basically the agreement would serve as my "signature".
I will request for that booking form and see what happens. Im getting a sick feeling about this, although the seller still takes my calls.

This process of sub-division is very tricky and I personally I gave my surveyor to do it for me. He took 1 year and every time he told me the title will be ready the following week. I took it upon myself, and managed to get the titles within 2 weeks. Dont blame the seller. Do due dilligence, and may be find out if the title can be transferred directly to you. I dont advocate on working on his knee cap, this wont bring the money back.

When a parcel of land is sub-divided ALL the subdivisions are initially registered in the name of the Proprietor(i.e. the owner B4 the subdivision).
Only then can a transfer to other parties take place.

@King...You are just the king