Cancelling a Provisional Note on Dominican Property: Clearing the Record Provisional annotations exist to protect pending claims, and, like scaffolding, they are supposed to come down when the work is over. In practice, Dominican titles accumulate annotations that have long since lost their reason: the lawsuit ended, the claim was settled or abandoned, the term […]
Registering a Lease in the Dominican Republic: The Difference Between a Contract and a Right Every lease binds the landlord who signed it. The harder question is whether it binds the next owner, the buyer who acquires the building mid-term, the bank that forecloses on it, the heir who inherits it. For tenants who have […]
Foreign-Owned Property and Dominican Succession Law: The Rules That Apply When the Owner Dies A Canadian dies in Toronto owning a villa in Las Terrenas. Whatever her will says, and whatever Canadian law provides, the fate of that villa runs through Dominican succession law, because for real estate on Dominican soil, the location of the […]
Dominican Property Taxes: What Buyers Pay, When, and What Changed in 2026 Six months. That is how long a buyer of Dominican real estate has to pay the 3% transfer tax after closing before surcharges and interest begin to accrue, and it is the deadline most often missed by foreign purchasers who assume the closing […]
CONFOTUR Tax Exemptions for Tourism Real Estate in the Dominican Republic: 15 Years, Nationwide, With New Limits in 2026 A condominium buyer in Punta Cana who chooses a CONFOTUR-approved project over an identical unapproved one can avoid the 3% real estate transfer tax at closing and the annual property tax for years afterward. That difference, […]
The review of promise of sale contracts for pre-construction real estate property in Punta Cana requires years of experience and the edge to find out the check items needing clarification, update or negotiation by the purchaser with the owner and developer. Buyers often ask for a second opinion or the review of their promise of […]
The Nice International Classification Thirteenth Edition entered in force in the Dominican Republic on January 1st, 2026. In this regard, the Classification establishes, among other items, the following: First: Goods and services will not be considered similar, solely for being in the same category; Second:Goods and services will only be considered different by appearing in […]
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