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 […]
The Provisional Note: How to Put the World on Notice Over Dominican Real Estate Property, Before It Is Too Late Litigation is slow; property moves fast. Between the day a claim over Dominican real estate arises and the day a court resolves it, the property can be sold, mortgaged or encumbered, and in a registration […]
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 […]
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