What happens before land moves into development?

Connect land ownership or use with construction and development activity.

The record concepts include parcel status, ownership history, development events, parcel history, ownership / use transitions, development status and project lifecycle. Inspect ownership and recorded land use. Review construction events connected to parcels. Inspect linked business context along development histories.

This dataset is prepared to order. Choose the city, date range and required scope; the accepted order defines the population, final fields, formats and delivery.

Onboarded city options

Nairobi (Kenya) · Lagos (Nigeria)

Custom city requests

African Major Cities · Additional cities require availability, scope and quote confirmation.

Data type

Synthetic

Connected domains

Land, Construction, Business

Catalogue structure

Longitudinal

Key features

Record concepts for your order-specific extract.

Who it is for

• Planning teams
• developers
• land researchers
• investment analysts

Entities represented

Parcel / project-level

This identifies the entities described by the catalogue. The analytical row grain, eligibility, keys and dates are agreed for your extract.

Explore ownership and land-use changes preceding recorded construction starts.

Record concepts for your extract

• parcel status
• ownership history
• development events
• parcel history
• ownership / use transitions
• development status
• project lifecycle

The agreed specification defines the final columns, keys, relationships and observation period for your order.

Trace parcel-to-project and business links; show permit, start and completion dates separately and retain parcels without observed construction starts.

Proposed questions for your custom order

1. Which ownership and land-use changes precede recorded construction starts, and what connected business activity appears along those parcel histories?
2. What sequences of ownership, use and project activity precede development?
3. Which tenure changes are followed by investment in land or buildings?
4. Which ownership or use changes occur before development starts?
5. How do project lifecycles connect with parcel histories?
6. What paths distinguish parcels at different development stages?
7. How does connected business activity change along those paths?

Proposed research and analytical applications

• Exploratory analysis
• Cohort comparison
• Planning scenarios
• Data workflow prototyping

Data generation

FCTE synthetic city engine

Data classification

Synthetic

FCTE generation methods and published city/domain checks provide source context. The order defines the final extract and the release-specific checks, documentation and limitations supplied with it.

Known limitations

• Confirm event dates, parcel-project joins and release coverage. Legal title, planning permission and investment returns require separate assessment.
• Synthetic records describe generated scenarios; they do not establish observed population prevalence or real-world causal effects.

Catalogue base price

$395 USD

Price basis

Base price per selected city

Availability

Prepared after order

The displayed catalogue amount is a base price per selected city. Your requested dates, population, fields, formats and usage rights determine the agreed scope and final quote. Applicable published discounts and taxes are confirmed with that quote.

Your prepared package

Your order confirms the data files, documentation, evidence, examples and release controls included in the prepared package.

• Agreed data extract
• Schema and field documentation
• Release-specific evidence and limitations
• Agreed loading or analysis examples
• Licence, manifest, checksums and delivery note

SD_RESEARCH_DATASET/
├── data/
│   ├── land_records.parquet
│   ├── construction_records.parquet
│   └── business_records.parquet
├── documentation/
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── DATA_DICTIONARY.csv
│   ├── SCHEMA.md
│   └── METHODOLOGY.md
├── evidence/
│   ├── CERTIFICATION.json
│   ├── VALIDATION_REPORT.pdf
│   └── KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md
├── MANIFEST.json
├── CHECKSUMS.sha256
└── LICENSE.pdf

Delivery process

Confirm the cities, date range, records, formats, rights and price in writing. The order-specific extract is then prepared and supplied under the agreed payment and delivery conditions.

One secure download package for the agreed release and licensed entity.

Delivery timing, access expiry, formats and prerequisites are confirmed in the accepted order.

Support, refreshes, future releases, hosting and APIs are included only when expressly ordered.

Data Licensing Agreement · 2026-10

A non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for the named customer within the accepted scope and duration.

Permitted use

Internal research, development, testing and analytics within the accepted order.

Model training

Model training, external applications, commercial distribution and access by other legal entities must be expressly addressed in the order.

Redistribution

Raw or substantially reconstructable data cannot be resold, published or redistributed without separate written authorization.

Attribution

Preserve release provenance and applicable third-party notices. Published outputs must identify the data as synthetic.