A permuta in Cuba is a home swap formalised before a notary. Cuba legalised outright sales in November 2011 and left the price to the two parties. What it never freed was the valuation: the state still fixes the number every transfer is taxed on. Cuba Luxury Rent checks that number, and the title behind it, before any Havana purchase. On Saturday mornings in the years either side of 2000, the Paseo del...
A Cuban property sale closes in one sitting at a state notary's office in the municipality where the house stands, with the whole price paid there by bank cheque. Since 7 January 2026 that sitting runs under a new law, Ley 175 "Del Notariado", which gives the notary seven working days to authorise the deed. Two eras meet at that desk. The housing side of the transaction still runs on a law from 1988...
Corporate incentive travel to Cuba works in August 2026 at one scale only: a small group, in one city, in private accommodation that makes its own power and water. Cuba's transport ministry now sells intercity bus tickets three days ahead. An incentive programme gets contracted a year ahead. That gap is the whole problem. Everything below is detail on that paragraph. We've had the question four...
A full private villa buyout Havana means exclusive use of an entire house - every bedroom, the pool, the roof, the kitchen - with no other guests and no shared areas. It normally includes staff, a generator with fuel, stored water, and a local contact who solves problems. Cuba Luxury Rent arranges buyouts on that basis. There's a moment in every Havana villa handover that tells you what kind of week...
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