NewsWhore
07-27-2011, 03:00 PM
An investigative article in today's Diario Libre describes just how difficult, frustrating and time-consuming it is to obtain a clear title to a property received through one of the government's housing projects. On one level there is a notorious lack of effort by the government to collect the money owed on the apartments and on the other level there is an incredible bureaucratic entanglement that includes the three branches of government.
According to National Assets office head Elias Wessin Chavez, the process can be faster or very much slower depending on the value of the property. Properties worth less than RD$1.1 million can obtain titles in less than a month, but for properties over the value of 200 minimum wages, the process can take many years. The file has to be sent to Congress for approval, the cadastral registration is checked and re-checked, and then the case goes to the Executive Branch and then to the Judicial Branch. This means that literally thousands of people are trying to obtain their legal title to property that they paid off in the 1980s, and have yet to get clear title.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)
According to National Assets office head Elias Wessin Chavez, the process can be faster or very much slower depending on the value of the property. Properties worth less than RD$1.1 million can obtain titles in less than a month, but for properties over the value of 200 minimum wages, the process can take many years. The file has to be sent to Congress for approval, the cadastral registration is checked and re-checked, and then the case goes to the Executive Branch and then to the Judicial Branch. This means that literally thousands of people are trying to obtain their legal title to property that they paid off in the 1980s, and have yet to get clear title.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)