{"type":"data","nodes":[null,{"type":"data","data":[{"market":1},{"schema_version":2,"document_type":3,"last_updated":4,"language":5,"country_code":6,"country":7,"slug":8,"region":9,"status":10,"live_on_site":11,"confidence":12,"section_order":13,"seo":27,"hero":30,"summary":36,"scorecard":44,"quick_facts":75,"strategy_fit":92,"development_reality":107,"foreign_ownership":125,"priority_cities":129,"catalysts":164,"risks":168,"lifestyle_base":172,"cta":177,"source_registry":182,"tags":213,"priority_rank":217,"group_id":218,"group_label":9,"launch_recommended":219,"status_summary":220},"1.0.0","market-intelligence-country","2026-03-29","en-GB","DO","Dominican Republic","dominican-republic","Latin America & Caribbean","active",true,"medium",[14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26],"hero","verdict","scoreboard","quick_facts","strategy_fit","development_reality","foreign_ownership","priority_cities","catalysts","risks","lifestyle_base","cta","sources",{"title":28,"description":29},"Dominican Republic Market Intelligence | Perfect Mission","The Dominican Republic is a tourism-led development market with open foreign ownership and strong resort-residential logic.",{"eyebrow":31,"title":32,"subtitle":33,"cta_primary":34,"cta_secondary":35},"Market Intelligence","Dominican Republic: tourism power feeding real estate","A market where hospitality, second-home demand, and open foreign ownership combine into a clear development story.","Request a verified market memo","Request a market briefing",{"one_line_verdict":37,"market_stage":38,"operator_angle":41,"investor_angle":42,"base_case":43},"The Dominican Republic is one of the cleanest tourism-linked real-estate markets in the Caribbean, but it is more of a hospitality-development story than a low-tax story.",{"label":39,"description":40},"Tourism growth / active","Tourism is not merely recovering; it is setting records, and the real-estate market benefits where projects align with durable destination demand.","Good for operators who understand resort-linked or mixed hospitality-residential product and can avoid generic beach brochure inventory.","Easy to explain because tourism numbers are strong and foreign ownership is open.","Use the Dominican Republic for tourism-linked development strategies rather than for a generalised national land thesis.",[45,49,53,56,60,63,67,71],{"key":46,"label":47,"score":48},"rerating_potential","Rerating potential",7.5,{"key":50,"label":51,"score":52},"development_viability","Development viability",7,{"key":54,"label":55,"score":52},"baseability","Base quality",{"key":57,"label":58,"score":59},"foreign_capital_friendliness","Foreign-capital friendliness",8.5,{"key":61,"label":62,"score":52},"exit_liquidity","Exit liquidity",{"key":64,"label":65,"score":66},"tax_efficiency","Tax efficiency",5,{"key":68,"label":69,"score":70},"livability","Livability",8,{"key":72,"label":73,"score":74},"overall_fit","Overall fit for Perfect Mission",7.2,[76,80,84,88],{"label":77,"value":78,"source_ref":79},"Headline corporate tax","27%, plus a 1% assets tax functioning as a minimum tax in some cases","do_pwc_tax",{"label":81,"value":82,"source_ref":83},"Tourism signal","11.6 million visitors in 2025","do_tourism",{"label":85,"value":86,"source_ref":87},"Foreign ownership signal","No restrictions on foreign individuals or entities owning or leasing real estate","do_chambers_re",{"label":89,"value":90,"source_ref":91},"FDI signal","2025 FDI reached about US$5.03 billion; tourism-linked real estate captured 15.7% of that flow","do_fdi_re",[93,97,100,103],{"strategy":94,"fit":95,"why":96},"Resort residential","strong","A natural format when linked to real destination demand.",{"strategy":98,"fit":95,"why":99},"Branded or hospitality-linked development","This is the country’s clearest cross-border product fit.",{"strategy":101,"fit":12,"why":102},"Urban residential","Can work in Santo Domingo, but the signature story is still tourism and lifestyle.",{"strategy":104,"fit":105,"why":106},"Generic inland land speculation","weak","The strongest demand logic is still destination-driven.",{"headline":108,"copy":109,"permit_friction":12,"title_reliability":12,"utilities":110,"best_entries":111,"avoid_first":116,"process_notes":119,"source_refs":123},"Destination logic matters more than national averages","The Dominican Republic rewards projects tied to real destination economics — airports, tourism flows, hotel ecosystems, and lifestyle demand. 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