Your land has a story the title deed doesn't tell.
Court filings, gazette notices, encumbrances — the risks that sink deals and sour collateral never show up in a registry search. HodiScore reads every one and distils it into a single number, 0 to 1000, before you sign, lend, or wire a cent.
HODISCORE by LITMUS
47
Counties covered
0–1000
The HodiScore
72 hrs
Verified report
100%
Findings traceable to source
The blind spot
What a clean title deed won't tell you
Gazette notices. Court orders. Encumbrances recorded outside the land registry. These are the risks that collapse deals, wipe out loan collateral, and expose advocates to personal liability — and none of them appear in a standard registry search or an official portal. In 2025 the Supreme Court held in Sehmi v Tarabana that a registered title is no longer sufficient proof of ownership. Independent verification stopped being optional.
Score inputs
What official searches miss — and what HodiScore reads
Seven weighted checks roll into one number. Every point is traceable to the record it came from.
Litigation & court records
Active suits, injunctions and historical disputes tied to the parcel — including ELC filings a registry search never surfaces.
Gazette & public notices
Compulsory-acquisition orders, revocation notices and government publications that quietly change what a parcel is worth.
Title identity & integrity
LR, IR, deed and block/plot identifiers cross-checked across independent sources — so the title you see is the title that exists.
Ownership chain & party risk
Every party in the ownership chain, historical transfers, and directorship patterns that signal fraud risk.
Encumbrances
Charges, cautions, caveats and arrears — including ones recorded outside the registry and easy to miss.
Signed field verification
On Verified, a named surveyor walks the parcel, confirms boundaries and occupation, and signs the findings.
HodiScore land map
See asking-price context, county by county
Median asking price per acre across 25 Kenyan counties. Hover a county to compare market context — then open the full map to click into any county's detail.
Asking prices, not valuations or sale prices — useful context, but they never move a HodiScore.
Source coverage
Where we look
The sources a title deed and a registry search never surface — read, digitised, and cross-checked.
Court & dispute history
Environment & Land Court filings, injunctions, and historical disputes across all 47 counties.
Gazette & government actions
Compulsory-acquisition orders, road reserves, riparian and forest overlays — decades of notices.
Registry & survey cross-checks
Title, LR, deed-plan and survey identifiers reconciled across independent public records.
Use cases
Who relies on a HodiScore
Different stakes. The same question — what is this parcel, really, before it matters.
Workflow
One score. Three steps.
Enter the parcel
County, section, tenure — and a title, LR or plot number if you have one. Two minutes, from anywhere.
AI searches. An expert attests.
AI reads court filings, gazette notices and records official portals don't cover — in seconds. For Verified, a named surveyor walks the land and signs the findings.
Your HodiScore, ready to act on
One number, 0 to 1000, with a report where every finding cites its source — ready for your bank, SACCO, or advocate.
Trust model
Why a HodiScore can be trusted
AI searches every source
Court filings, gazette notices, encumbrances and records official portals miss — read in seconds, not days.
A named expert signs it
On Verified, a credentialled surveyor walks the parcel and puts their name on the findings. Accountability, not anonymity.
Every point is traceable
Nothing moves the score without evidence. Each finding cites the registry entry, gazette page, or court file it came from.
Built on the Litmus platform
HodiScore runs on Litmus — infrastructure built from the ground up for Kenyan registries, courts, and land law.
HodiScore Verified
A named surveyor signs every Verified report
For high-stakes decisions, a licensed field verifier walks the parcel, confirms the beacons and occupation, and puts their name and licence number on the findings — the 10% field-verification weight in your HodiScore, earned on the ground.
Request a Verified check →Decision moments
Three parcels. One number that changed the decision.
The parcel had already been sold
A Kenyan in the UK was ready to wire payment for a plot in Kajiado. The title looked clean. HodiScore surfaced an active court case and a second transfer registered three months earlier — the same parcel, sold to someone else.
A gazette order made the collateral worthless
A SACCO ran a standard search before approving a land-secured loan. The title was clean. HodiScore found a compulsory-acquisition notice gazetted six months earlier — a government order that hard-capped the score.
Documented for the file
After the 2025 Supreme Court ruling, a Nairobi conveyancing firm made HodiScore standard. Each report is a signed, source-cited audit trail their partners use to satisfy their professional obligation.
Know the score before you sign. Keep watch after.
Run a HodiScore on any parcel in Kenya — every relevant source searched, a named expert's findings signed, a report in 72 hours. Then let Monitoring watch it for you.