La transaction foncière populaire par l’intermédiation du Mpanera Tany : essor du marché foncier semi-informel et transformation des sols urbains à Tananarive (Madagascar)

Abstract

This article analyzes how the property market operates in the city of Antananarivo, Madagascar, by looking at the formal and informal practices and processes of land transactions. Looking at the reality of the processes on the ground, it decrypts the central role of an informal intermediary called Mpanera Tany, whose interventions contribute to bringing derelict or dormant land into the market for buildable land and to the transformation of the city of Antananarivo. These practices underline the hybridization of “legal norms” and “standardized practices”, but also the people’s desire to contribute to the legality of property markets. The concept of the “informality” of property market in countries of the global South is then questioned.

Keywords

• semi-formal land market
• informal broker
• people’s practice of land transaction
• making cities
• Mpanera Tany
• Madagascar