From Auction to Ownership: Registering an Adjudication of Dominican Real Estate The gavel falls, the price is paid, and the winning bidder at a Dominican judicial auction walks out with a court decision declaring the property theirs. It is a powerful document, and, until registered, an incomplete victory. In the Dominican Torrens-style system, real rights […]
Updating a Mortgage Creditor’s Registration Certificate in the Dominican Republic: Why Lenders Should Not Hold Old Paper. When a mortgage or other secured right is recorded at the Dominican Title Registry, the creditor receives its own official evidence of the registration, today, a certification of registration of creditors. But the format and content of that […]
Your Name Is on the Title, But Is Your ID? Updating Identity Documents at the Dominican Title Registry It is one of the most common, and most avoidable, obstacles in Dominican real estate closings: the seller is unquestionably the owner, but the identity document on the certificate of title no longer matches the one in […]
Contributing Real Estate to a Company in the Dominican Republic: The Contribution in Kind Sooner or later, many property owners in the Dominican Republic decide their real estate belongs inside a company, for liability protection, estate planning, investment structuring or simply to organize a family patrimony. The legal vehicle for moving it there is the […]
Law 544-14: The Rulebook for Cross-Border Legal Disputes in the Dominican Republic Before 2014, a foreign investor litigating a cross-border contract in Santo Domingo faced a patchwork: scattered Civil Code provisions, case law, and guesswork. Law 544-14 on Private International Law replaced that patchwork with a single, modern rulebook, one now regarded among the most […]
CONFOTUR Tax Exemptions for Tourism Projects: What Law 158-01 Still Offers After the 2026 Reform. Tourism and real estate together attracted roughly 42 cents of every dollar of foreign direct investment that entered the Dominican Republic in 2025, a record year at over US$5 billion. Much of that flow rests on a single statute from […]
Buying Dominican property can sometimes turn up situations where avoiding conflicts of interests will help you avoid purchase pitfalls. Many foreigners who come to the Dominican Republic, for either business or pleasure, discover the many different environments found within a short drive: major internationally-linked cities, scenic tropical country sides, serene mountain ranges, and pristine white […]
Trademark registration in Dominican Republic is governed by Industrial Property Law 20-00 and its Regulations. A trademark in the Dominican Republic is defined as any sign or combination of signs that may be graphically symbolized and are suitable to distinguish the products or services of a business from those of others. Although the registration of […]
Dominican Republic Residency by Investment or Retirement: The Fast Track Most Applicants Overlook A retired couple with a USD 1,500 monthly pension can skip the line. While most foreigners must first hold Dominican temporary residency and wait years to upgrade, the country’s special incentives regime for pensioners and rentiers grants permanent residency directly, often the […]
Dominican Free Zone Installation Permit: The 8 Requirements Every Applicant Must File Before a single machine is installed or a lease signed, every company seeking Dominican free zone status must clear one gate: the installation permit from the National Free Zones Council (CNZFE). The Council requires applicants to appoint a Dominican law firm as legal […]
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