Buyer guides

The questions buyers actually ask

Comparisons, tax rules, and market intel on projects we don't sell — written the same way as everything else on this site: plainly, with the numbers, and honest about our own bias.

Comparisons

Cap Cana against the alternatives

The big one

Cap Cana vs Punta Cana

One is a region, the other a gated development inside it. Prices, beaches, daily life — and who belongs on which side of the gate.

The budget question

Vista Cana vs Cap Cana

Condos from under USD 100,000 against a resort city from USD 388,000. An unfair fight, done fairly — including when the cheaper buy wins.

The real rivalry

Cap Cana vs Casa de Campo

The 1970s original versus the newer challenger. Same league, same money, different bets — mature community or growth phase.

Taxes & market intel

The fine print, expanded

The tax break

CONFOTUR, explained

What the "TAX FREE" listings are actually referring to: the 3% transfer tax, the 1% annual IPI, the 15-year window — and the three-state status question that separates savings from marketing.

Market intel

St. Regis Cap Cana Residences

The facts on Cap Cana's top-of-market branded residences — a project we don't sell, covered because buyers keep asking about it.

The process

The full buying guide

The five steps from reservation to registered title, the two taxes that matter, and the questions to ask before signing pre-construction.

Inside the gates

Area guides

The beach

Juanillo Beach

The postcard beach — and how it actually works: gate registration, the day-visitor credit, when it's quiet, and what changes when you live up the road.

The marina

Marina Cap Cana

172 slips, a serious blue-marlin fleet, restaurants around the basin — and what living in the marina district trades against the beach side.

The famous course

Punta Espada Golf

Jack Nicklaus, eight holes on the sea, ranked the Caribbean's best for over a decade — the facts, the fees, and why it matters even if you don't golf.

The new course

Las Iguanas Golf

The second Nicklaus course, fifteen years in the making — first nine holes open since November 2025, with a residential district growing around it.

The overview

Living in Cap Cana

The whole map of life behind the gate: beaches, golf, marina, schools, security and drive times — the hub the area guides branch from.

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