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Caribbean Land Title Checks

Know who really owns a Caribbean site before you build: deeds and registered titles, family land, occupiers and squatters, boundary surveys, fraud checks and title insurance where it exists.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Caribbean Land Title Checks, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own affairs. It is not legal advice. Rules differ between countries and change often, so check decisions that matter with a qualified lawyer or the official authority in the country concerned.

What it installs.

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Projects

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Starter tasks

🏢 Real Estate Investing & Development

Caribbean Land Title Checks

Checking land title before developing in the Caribbean: deeds and registered titles, family land claims, squatting, boundary surveys and title insurance where available.

  1. Identifying the land registration system for a parcel
  2. Engaging a conveyancing attorney for title work
  3. Appointing a licensed land surveyor for the site
  4. Seller title document request for a land purchase
  5. Title deal-breakers written before searching
  6. Title findings register for a development site
  7. Land tax and rates arrears check
  8. First site walk to see who uses the land
  9. Title file and document index for each parcel
  10. Weekly registry search chase during a purchase
  11. Title watch on land you already hold
  12. Occupation patrol of held land against squatting
  13. Boundary marker inspection on held parcels
  14. Yearly land tax payment and receipt filing
  15. Quarterly title review of the site pipeline
  16. Yearly review of your attorney and surveyor panel
  17. Undertakings and title conditions tracker before completion
  18. Safe custody of original title documents
  19. Title lessons log across land deals
  20. Reading a certificate of title and its endorsements
  21. Tracing a chain of deeds on unregistered land
  22. Reading a survey plan and cadastral sheet
  23. Family land and succession basics
  24. Adverse possession and prescriptive rights basics
  25. Easements, rights of way and reserves on Caribbean land
  26. Spotting forged deeds and impersonation fraud
  27. State land, Crown grants and government leases
  28. Bringing old-law land under registered title
  29. Title insurance or attorney opinion decision
  30. Resolving a boundary encroachment with a neighbour
  31. Buying out co-owners of family land
  32. Dealing with occupiers found on the site
  33. Price, retention or walk away after title findings
  34. Amalgamating several parcels into one title
  35. Court action to quiet or rectify a title
  36. Registry search day in person
  37. Boundary survey day with neighbours present
  38. Title sign-off before the agreement for sale
  39. Completion day and lodging the transfer
  40. Lender title requirements before construction finance
  41. Buying from a seller who lives overseas
  42. Developing inherited family land you now control
  43. Landholding licence check for a non-citizen buyer
  44. Title checks on a tight first-site budget
  45. Rebuilding title evidence after a hurricane
  46. Title checks in a second Caribbean jurisdiction
  47. Customary and indigenous land rights checks
  48. Beachfront and foreshore title checks
  49. Multi-owner land assembly title programme
  50. Former estate land conditions and reservations

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Identifying the land registration system for a parcel

Whether a parcel sits under a registered title system or an older deeds system decides what a search can prove, how long it takes and what the attorney must check. Trinidad and Tobago, for example, runs both old law deeds and certificates of title under the Real Property Ordinance, while Saint Lucia and the Cayman Islands moved to registered land decades ago.

First tasks

  • Ask the seller or agent for the title or deed reference for each parcel
  • Find which registry office holds records for the district
  • Confirm with your attorney whether each parcel is registered or under deeds
  • Write a short note on what a search in that system will prove

Engaging a conveyancing attorney for title work

In most Caribbean jurisdictions only an attorney-at-law can give a title opinion, and the quality of that opinion depends on how far back they search and how well they know the local registry. Choosing an attorney who regularly acts on development land in the parish or district, and agreeing scope and fees in writing, avoids a cheap search that misses the one heir or charge that matters.

First tasks

  • Ask two local developers which attorneys they use for land titles
  • Request a written title scope and fee quote from three attorneys
  • Compare how far back each proposes to search and what they will report
  • Sign an engagement letter with the attorney you choose

Appointing a licensed land surveyor for the site

A title tells you what land a person owns on paper; a boundary survey tells you whether that paper matches the ground, the fences and the neighbours. Appointing a surveyor licensed in the jurisdiction early means the survey plan can be checked against the registry before the price is fixed, rather than after the foundations are set out.

First tasks

  • Check the official register of licensed land surveyors in the jurisdiction
  • Ask three surveyors for a quote on a boundary survey of the site
  • Send the chosen surveyor the title, deed plans and earlier surveys
  • Agree the fieldwork date and the delivery date for the survey plan

Make it yours.

Install Caribbean Land Title Checks, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.