Can US citizens own property in the Dominican Republic?

Yes. Foreigners — including US citizens — can hold fully registered, fee-simple title protected by the same Dominican property registry that governs domestic transactions. No residency, local partner, or citizenship is required, and your ownership rights are identical to those of a Dominican national.

How does the buying process work?

A purchase moves from a written offer with an earnest-money deposit, through title and developer due diligence handled by our local counsel, to closing before a notary and registration in the national title registry. We coordinate financing, wire logistics, translation, and every signature in between — most closings complete within 45–90 days.

Luxury Real Estate · Entire National Coastline

Luxury Real Estate
Across the Dominican Republic

Q: What is CONFOTUR?

CONFOTUR is the Dominican Republic's tourism-investment statute. Buyers in certified developments are exempt from the standard 3% transfer tax at purchase and from the annual tax on high-value real estate for up to fifteen years. We verify certification directly in the registry and price the incentive into every acquisition thesis we write.

Where the Atlantic becomes home.

Enter the Archive Meet the Collective

The Entire National Coastline Doctrine

We do not sell property. We curate a state of being — a life arranged between the salt air and the coral stone, engineered for those who arrive expecting nothing less than the exceptional.

$527M

Lifetime Sales

180+

Residences Placed

14 yrs

Across the Entire National Coastline

The Coastline

Nine outposts across the entire national coastline.

Cabarete Sosúa Las Terrenas Río San Juan Playa Grande Cabrera Puerto Plata Costambar Punta Cana

Field Notes

The Dominican coastline, read closely.

The market, in context.

To speak of luxury real estate in the Dominican Republic is to speak of the Caribbean's most consistent performer. The country has sustained one of the hemisphere's fastest growth curves for a decade, with new highways stitching the north coast to the capital, direct flights arriving from a dozen North American gateways, and a tourism economy that welcomes more visitors each year than any other island in the region. Foreign buyers purchase with full, registered title — fee-simple ownership protected by the same registry that governs domestic transactions — and the result is a market that behaves less like an exotic frontier and more like a maturing asset class. Since our founding, Paradise Investment Group has placed more than 180 residences and closed over $527M in lifetime sales along this coastline.

The CONFOTUR advantage.

Dominican law rewards those who build for the country's future. Under the CONFOTUR program — the republic's tourism-investment statute — properties within certified developments are exempt from the standard 3% transfer tax at purchase and from the annual tax on high-value real estate for up to fifteen years. For buyers and investors alike, the savings can run to six figures on a single transaction and materially change the yield of a long-term hold. We guide our clients to CONFOTUR-certified projects, verify certification status directly in the registry, and price the incentive into every acquisition thesis we write.

Four disciplines, one atelier.

Our practice is organized around the full arc of ownership. For buyers, a guided search across the entire national coastline — oceanfront villas in Cabarete, cliffside estates above Playa Grande, pre-construction residences in Punta Cana. For sellers, an exposure engine: visual tours, a private buyer list, and a marketing program calibrated to a global audience. For investors, quantified appreciation and rental-yield data across the Caribbean's most resilient coastline. And for developers, end-to-end counsel — from raw headland and entitlement through master planning and delivery. Each discipline reinforces the others; every residence we place sharpens the search for the next.

The coastline itself.

Nine outposts compose our map of the north coast and beyond. Cabarete, where trade winds built a kite-surfing capital; Sosúa, with its sheltered cove; Las Terrenas, the Samaná peninsula's fishing village turned cosmopolitan enclave; Río San Juan and Playa Grande, where the golf course meets the reef; Cabrera, the coast's quiet garden; Puerto Plata and Costambar, the historic Atlantic port and its beachside quarter; and Punta Cana to the east, the republic's resort capital. Each carries its own pricing rhythm, its own architecture, its own way of life. We know them all — not as listings, but as neighborhoods we have worked for over a decade.

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