Dominican real estate due diligence is the first step for verifying that the title to a prospective real estate property is clear and marketable. The purchase of Dominican Republic real estate property is governed by Real Estate Property Law 108-05 of 2005 and its regulations as well as the Dominican Civil Code and other special […]
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: […]
Giving Property Away, Properly: The Registered Donation of Dominican Real Estate The most common estate plan in the Dominican Republic is not a document; it is a decision parents make at a kitchen table, to give the property to the children now, while everyone is alive to see it. The instinct is sound: donation moves […]
Paying With the Property Itself: The Dation in Payment at the Dominican Title Registry Every debt is a promise of money, but not every debtor ends up with money. When the cash is gone and the creditor is real, Dominican practice reaches for one of the oldest instruments of honorable exit: the dación en pago, […]
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 […]
Nearshoring in the Dominican Republic: How Free Zone Law 8-90 Shields Manufacturers From Tariff Volatility When tariffs on Asian imports can double between one quarter and the next, the cost of distance stops being theoretical. Manufacturers supplying the U.S. market are discovering that a factory two days by sea from Miami, inside a jurisdiction that […]
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% […]
Free Zone Minimum Wage in the Dominican Republic: What Employers Must Pay in 2026 Labor is the largest recurring cost of most free zone operations in the Dominican Republic, and it is the one line item the government resets by resolution, not by negotiation with each employer. For companies budgeting a nearshoring move, getting the […]
Arthur & Castillo. All Rights Reserved.