According to Torres, he has identified 63,000 title certificates that must be delivered throughout the national territory for houses and dwellings built by the Dominican State during all these years, but which they had not bothered to deliver to their purchasers.
Taken from the Listín Diario
SANTO DOMINGO.- The director of the Permanent Commission for the Titling of State Lands (CPTTE), Mérid de Jesús Torres, reported that he has in his possession 1,850 title certificates for residential properties built by the State, in the sectors Los Mameyes, Maquiteria, José Contreras, Invivienda and Los Ríos.
“We are conducting a survey of those apartments and we have in our possession 1,850 title certificates for Los Mameyes, Maquiteria and those areas that are currently in the process of being transferred to the beneficiaries, to be delivered in the coming days,” Torres said.
He also indicated that in the eight years since the founding of the Titling Commission, before there was a change of administration, only 43 title certificates had been delivered in said apartments and currently they have delivered around 100 titles in the Invivienda residential complex.
According to Torres, he has identified 63,000 title certificates that must be delivered throughout the national territory for houses and dwellings built by the Dominican State during all these years, but which they had not bothered to deliver to their purchasers.
“It was turnkey, contract in hand, but they were never given the title certificate, and we're fixing that. That's why you've seen that when we hand over the keys to the apartment, we also hand over the title certificate,” he emphasized
Torres considered the delivery of the title, which a citizen so desires in order to enter the economic world and be able to obtain credit, as a necessity.
He also said that the apartments or houses built by INVI or National Assets that do not have their definitive title of ownership, have created a structure that is directed by the Titling Commission and that are forming part of the institutions that had made those constructions to ensure and accelerate the processes.
In the case of National Assets, he indicated that they have found about 25,000 units, including homes and houses, that were built but have not been given their title certificate.
Exemption from payments
The Titling Commission agreed with the Internal Revenue Service that each apartment or house built by the Dominican State that has a value below RD$3,600,000, will be exempt from the 3% transfer payment, to be transferred to the people who occupy these apartments.
Requirements and costs
Among the requirements for purchasers to obtain their title to an apartment built by the State are, among others: Having acquired it from the Dominican State, having an identity and electoral card that proves that he is the contracting person, and having paid the 3% transfer fee, as established by law.
Other deliveries
According to the director of the Permanent Commission for Land Titling of the State, this year for the first time 2,500 title certificates will be delivered in Greater Santo Domingo in the Sabana Perdida sector and another 2,800 in the Los Mina, Catanga and Vietnam sectors.
“We are in the stage of transferring it to the name of the legitimate owners, which is a rather technical process, and through a very rigorous survey to prevent it from being transferred to people who are not the legitimate owners,” Torres explained.
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the traumas of becoming a homeowner.
More than 30 years. Most of the state-owned housing apartments that will receive property title certificates were delivered to their beneficiaries 30 years ago, some of them dating back to the so-called “Twelve Years” of President Joaquín Balaguer (1966-1978), when a broad program of infrastructure projects was initiated that the opposition came to call “the government of rod and cement”.
Invivienda.
Another project like Invivienda was started in the government of Salvador Jorge Blanco (1982-1986), but it was not completed until many decades later, even though the purchasers were given the rights to the apartments without them being finished, causing great discomfort and disorder.
