Abstract: This study examines the roles and behavior of land speculators around the fringes of Kano metropolis. Rapid population growth has placed enormous pressure on land in most urban areas. The high demand for land provides opportunity for land speculator to hold land in anticipation of increase in price overtime. Despite the fact that one of the objectives of the 1978 Land Use Decree is to check the excesses of land speculation, the decree only succeeded in fueling it or pushing it underground. Primary data for this study were collected via administration of questionnaire to 83 respondents sampled through the combination of purposive and snowball sampling techniques. The major findings of the study reveal that land speculation is still practiced in the study area and respondents assert that economic consideration is mainly the reason why they engaged in such act. The study concludes by recommending that access to land on the part of private individuals and corporate bodies should be made easier than is presently the case and property taxation should be introduced so as to discourage the act of land speculation.