{"id":14701,"date":"2011-11-07T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14701"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T13:46:09","slug":"cuba-to-allow-buying-and-selling-of-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/cuba-to-allow-buying-and-selling-of-property","title":{"rendered":"Cuba to Allow Buying and Selling of Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14703\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14703\" title=\"cuba-property\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cuba-property-250x141.jpg\" alt=\"Property in Cuba\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cuba announced a new property law last week that promises to allow citizens and permanent residents to buy and sell real estate \u2014 the most significant market-oriented change yet approved by the government of Ra\u00fal Castro, and one that will probably reshape Cuba\u2019s cities and conceptions of class.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules go into effect on Nov. 10, according to Cuba\u2019s state-run  newspaper, and while some of the fine print is still being written, the  law published on Thursday amounts to a major break from decades of  socialist housing. For the first time since the early days of the  revolution, buyers and sellers will be allowed to set home prices and  move when they want. Transactions of various kinds, including sales,  trades and gifts to relatives by Cubans who are emigrating, will no  longer be subject to government approval, the new law says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba announced a new property law last week that promises to allow citizens and permanent residents to buy and sell real estate \u2014 the most significant market-oriented change yet approved by the government of Ra\u00fal Castro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84,98,28],"class_list":["post-14701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-cuba","tag-financial","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}