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 […]
Putting the Home Beyond Reach: Forming a Bien de Familia Over Dominican Property Asset protection does not always require offshore structures. Dominican law has offered families a domestic shield for nearly a century: the bien de familia, a regime under which a home, once formally constituted as such and registered, becomes as a rule unseizable […]
The Queue Is the Contract: Registering a Conventional Mortgage in the Dominican Republic Strip away the paperwork and a mortgage is a claim to a place in line. The conventional mortgage, granted by contract over registered property, entitles its holder, if the debt goes unpaid, to pursue the property and collect from its price with […]
From Shares to Parcels: Registering the Civil Partition of Dominican Property Co-ownership is easy to enter and famously hard to inhabit. Heirs receive a succession and become co-owners of everything in it; a divorced couple’s community dissolves into shares; partners acquire together and later want apart. In each case the law’s starting point is indivision: […]
The Inheritance Is Not Yours Yet: The Transfer of Dominican Property by Cause of Death Dominican law transmits estates at the instant of death: legally, the heirs succeed the deceased immediately, in everything. The registry obeys a different clock. The day after the funeral, and the decade after, in thousands of families, the certificates of […]
The Dominican 1% Property Tax (IPI) in 2026: Exempt Amount, Deadlines and Fiscal Reform Changes Every January, the Dominican tax authority publishes a single number that decides whether thousands of property owners will write two checks that year. For 2026, that number is RD$10,695,494. The figure is the exemption threshold of the IPI, the 1% […]
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