Quisqueya Connection: RD Real Estate & Confotur

AI-powered Dominican Republic real estate scraper. Extracts from SuperCasas & Corotos, flags Confotur (Ley 158-01) tax-exempt properties, and matches investors via OpenAI. By Maria Correa-Resto.

Part of the Caribe Data Ecosystem — the most complete suite of Caribbean real estate intelligence tools on the Apify Store.

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What does this Actor do?

This Actor scrapes SuperCasas.com and Corotos.com.do — the two leading real estate platforms in the Dominican Republic — to extract investment-grade property listings enriched with Confotur (Ley 158-01) tax-exemption analysis and optional AI-powered deal matching via OpenAI GPT-4o-mini.

It operates in two modes:

🏠 Mode 1: DEAL_SCRAPER

Scrapes property listings from both platforms, normalizes data, and flags properties eligible for Confotur tax exemptions (up to 20 years of tax-free ownership in tourist zones like Punta Cana, Samaná, and Puerto Plata).

🤖 Mode 2: MATCH_ENGINE

Analyzes scraped listings against an investor profile using OpenAI, generating a match score (0–100), deal structure recommendations (Joint Venture, Hard Money, Buy & Hold, Wholesale/Option), and projected ROI estimates.

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Why Dominican Republic? Why Now?

The DR is the fastest-growing real estate market in the Caribbean:

• Tourism surpassed 10 million visitors in 2023 (record high)
• Punta Cana ranked Top 3 for global vacation rental yields
• Ley Confotur 158-01 offers up to 20 years of tax exemption on property tax, capital gains, and transfer tax
• USD-denominated transactions common (dollarized market)
• 30-minute flight from Miami, 4 hours from NYC

US capital is flooding in — and it needs accurate, structured data to find the deals.

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Data Extracted

Each property listing returns:

Field	Description
id	Unique hash ID
title	Property title
url	Source URL
source	SuperCasas or Corotos
propertyType	Apartamento, Casa, Villa, Solar/Terreno, Penthouse, Finca, Oficina/Comercial
transactionType	venta or alquiler
priceUSD	Price in USD
priceDOP	Price in Dominican Pesos
pricePerSqmUSD	Price per square meter in USD
province	Normalized province name
location	Full location string
bedrooms	Number of bedrooms
bathrooms	Number of bathrooms
areaSqm	Area in square meters
confoturEligible	Boolean — is property in a Confotur zone?
confoturZone	Name of the Confotur zone
confoturExemptionYears	Years of tax exemption (15 or 20)
confoturTaxSavingsUSD	Estimated USD tax savings over exemption period
matchScore	AI match score 0-100 (MATCH_ENGINE mode only)
matchRationale	AI explanation of match (MATCH_ENGINE mode only)
dealStructure	Recommended deal type (MATCH_ENGINE mode only)
projectedROI	Estimated annualized ROI (MATCH_ENGINE mode only)

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Confotur Zones (Ley 158-01)

The following provinces qualify for Confotur tax exemptions:

Province	Zone	Exemption Period
La Altagracia (Punta Cana/Bávaro)	Zona Turística Este	20 years
Samaná	Zona Turística Norte-Este	20 years
Puerto Plata	Zona Turística Norte	20 years
La Romana	Zona Turística Este	15 years
Pedernales	Zona Turística Sur	20 years
Barahona	Zona Turística Sur	20 years

Tax exemptions typically cover: property tax (IPI), capital gains tax, and transfer tax (3% ITBI).

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Input Parameters

{
  "mode": "DEAL_SCRAPER",
  "sources": ["SUPERCASAS", "COROTOS"],
  "transactionType": "venta",
  "provinces": ["la-altagracia", "santo-domingo", "santiago"],
  "confortorOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "minPrice": 50000,
  "maxPrice": 1000000,
  "minBedrooms": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

For MATCH_ENGINE mode:

{
  "mode": "MATCH_ENGINE",
  "openaiApiKey": "sk-...",
  "investorBudgetUSD": 500000,
  "dealType": "JOINT_VENTURE",
  "investorProfile": "US-based family office seeking 10-15% yields, prefer Confotur zones, open to condo-hotel and fractional investments",
  "sources": ["SUPERCASAS"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

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Usage Examples

Example 1: Find Confotur-eligible condos in Punta Cana

{
  "mode": "DEAL_SCRAPER",
  "sources": ["SUPERCASAS", "COROTOS"],
  "provinces": ["la-altagracia"],
  "confortorOnly": true,
  "propertyTypes": ["Apartamento", "Penthouse"],
  "transactionType": "venta",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example 2: AI-matched investment opportunities for a $300k budget

{
  "mode": "MATCH_ENGINE",
  "openaiApiKey": "sk-YOUR-KEY",
  "investorBudgetUSD": 300000,
  "dealType": "ANY",
  "investorProfile": "Retired couple from Florida, want rental income and annual vacation use",
  "provinces": ["la-altagracia", "samana"],
  "maxItems": 30
}

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Anti-Blocking & Reliability

This Actor is built for production-scale scraping:

• Apify RESIDENTIAL Proxies — rotates real residential IPs from the Dominican Republic and the US
• CheerioCrawler for SuperCasas (server-side rendered ASP.NET portal) — fast and lightweight
• PlaywrightCrawler for Corotos (React SPA) — full browser automation for dynamic content
• Automatic retries with exponential backoff on failed requests
• try/catch on every handler — a single bad page never crashes the run
• Data validation — filters out listings with invalid prices or missing critical fields

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Output Format

Results are saved to Apify's default Dataset in JSON format. In MATCH_ENGINE mode, AI analysis results are also saved to the match-results named Dataset, sorted by match score descending.

You can export results to:

• JSON / JSONL
• CSV / Excel
• Webhook (for real-time alerts on matching deals)
• Zapier / Make (no-code automation)

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Tech Stack

• Runtime: Node.js 20 + TypeScript
• Crawling: Crawlee (CheerioCrawler + PlaywrightCrawler)
• Browser: Chromium via Playwright
• AI: OpenAI gpt-4o-mini (MATCH_ENGINE mode)
• Platform: Apify SDK v3
• Sources: SuperCasas.com (SSR) + Corotos.com.do (SPA)

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Developed By

Maria Correa-Resto | Caribe Data Ecosystem

Expanding the suite of Caribbean real estate intelligence tools — from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic and beyond.

• Puerto Rico Actor: Boricua Connection: Real Estate Capital & Deal Matcher
• Dominican Republic: This Actor
• Coming soon: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Panama

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Pricing

This Actor uses the Pay Per Result model:

• Free: First 50 results per month
• Starter: $9.99 for 1,000 results
• Pro: $49.99 for 10,000 results
• MATCH_ENGINE mode: Additional OpenAI API costs apply (approximately $0.01-0.05 per analyzed property with gpt-4o-mini)

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Changelog

• v0.1.0 (2026-07-02): Initial release — dual-source scraping (SuperCasas + Corotos), Confotur analysis, MATCH_ENGINE with OpenAI GPT-4o-mini