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Risks of land adjudicated via FONTIERRAS and agrarian decrees

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Land and property for foreigners15-tierra-propiedad.md
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Who may hold land, and on what titletierra-propiedad
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Land/tierra
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The Land Fund (FONTIERRAS, Decree 24-99, a decentralized institution born of the Peace Accords) administers access to land through credit or subsidy and the regularization of land handed over by the state under Decrees 1551 (Agrarian Transformation), 60-70 and 38-71. Risk for the buyer: estates granted by the state often carry resolutory conditions, time-limited bans on transfer, or incomplete grant files awaiting regularization. It is worth checking in the registry certificate whether the property came from a state grant and whether the restriction has lapsed or been canceled. The exact scope of the restrictions article by article is an inference from the framework of Decree 24-99 and is still to be verified.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

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the exact scope of the restrictions article by article is still to be verified (an inference from the regularization framework of Decree 24-99)

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