Real Estate Alert System Stops Fraud in Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo, Mexico — Just months after its implementation, the Real Estate Alert system in Quintana Roo has proven its effectiveness by detecting the first six attempted frauds in property sales.

These cases have already led to complaints filed with the State Attorney General’s Office, according to Mariann González Pliego Castillo, director of the Public Registry of Property and Commerce.

Currently, the system has 70 active alerts registered by property owners seeking to protect their assets. The tool functions as a preventive monitor: once a property is registered, the system sends an automatic email to the owner at the exact moment any procedure is requested, such as a certificate of freedom from encumbrance or a preventive notice of sale.

“If you alerted your house and someone requests a procedure you did not authorize, you have the opportunity to immediately approach the authorities to file a complaint and safeguard the property’s official folio,” explained the official.

In the cases detected so far, the folios remain under the custody of the Attorney General’s Office while the investigation files progress.

Registering a property in this preventive system has an annual cost of 10 UMAs (Unit of Measurement and Update). González Pliego Castillo considered this amount “very small” compared to the total investment that acquiring a property represents and the risk of losing it to fraud.

The Real Estate Alert thus consolidates itself as a key digital tool to provide legal certainty to citizens, allowing a quick reaction to irregular operations or document falsification in transactions between individuals.

Check Before Buying: Avoid Fraud with Irregular Real Estate Developments

In the last seven years, the Secretariat of Sustainable Territorial Urban Development (Sedetus) has detected 119 irregular real estate developments in seven municipalities of Quintana Roo, putting at risk the investment of those who choose to buy plots in these sites lacking legal certainty.

José Alberto Alonso Ovando, head of the agency, indicated that there are risks in acquiring these lots that do not have the corresponding permits, so he invited citizens to consult the State Registry of Irregular Developments in the entity, available on the website of the agency under his charge.

The State Registry of Irregular Real Estate Developments is available at the link https://desarrollo.sedetus.gob.mx/consultaDesarrollos where one can learn the cause of irregularity, the status, the locality, the municipality, and the action that Sedetus is taking in this regard.