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Hormigueros lines up more than 300 abandoned houses for a land bank in a town with fewer than 20 homes listed for sale

Hormigueros has inventoried more than 300 abandoned houses and is setting up a land bank so that residents of the municipality can buy them at their appraised value, the mayor told wapa.tv on October 20, 2026. Interested buyers apply at the municipal tax office (CRIM) in Hormigueros and must meet its requirements, the outlet reported; the mayor said Hormigueros is the first municipality with a land bank and that the process is meant to be transparent.

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The last undeveloped homesite in the Las Estancias enclave of Bahía Beach, the Four Seasons resort community in Río Grande, is being offered for $3.9 million by Puerto Rico Sotheby's International Realty, Caribbean Journal reported on October 20, 2026. The lakefront lot covers about one acre, according to the outlet.

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The Vega Baja Community Land Bank has completed its first property sale: a vacant one-story concrete house at 23 Calle José Julián Acosta in downtown Vega Baja, sold for $50,000 to a local resident who must rehabilitate it and rent it as affordable housing for at least five years, the San Juan Daily Star reported on October 20, 2026.

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Two companies, Hacienda Campo Rico and Caribbean Golf Academy, have filed a 28-page memorandum with the Senate Committee on Tourism, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs alleging that the permits director at the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources gave lawmakers misleading information about the permit renewal and expansion of the Carolina municipal landfill, sanjuandailystar.com reported on October 15, 2026.

Source: sanjuandailystar.com and RED Atlas