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The Office of Government Ethics has filed an ethics complaint against an employee of Puerto Rico's Department of Housing in the Arecibo Region, alleging he accessed and changed his own title-regularization application for a property in Adjuntas, noticel.com reported on October 9, 2026.

Source: NotiCel and RED Atlas

Company buyer records purchase of a unit in Candelero Abajo, Humacao

MS PROPERTIES INC. bought the property at Unit 12, Candelero Abajo, Humacao, 00791 for $1,860,000, in a deed recorded on September 24, 2026.

Source: RED Atlas

JL Properties, Inc. buys a 770 m2 property on Calle Pomarrosa in Santurce for $1.15 million

JL Properties, Inc. has bought the property at 118 Calle Pomarrosa, Santurce, San Juan, 00911 from a private party. The company paid $1,150,000, and the sale entered the registry on September 8, 2026. The deed gives the property 770.84 m2 (8,297 sq ft) of floor area on a lot that property records put at 809 m2.

Source: RED Atlas

The $424,000 the government spent rebuilding a two-bedroom home in Bayamón is not necessarily excessive, given the state and federal requirements such projects must meet, a former president of the Puerto Rico Builders Association said in a radio interview, notiuno.com reported on October 13, 2026. He said other alternatives should be weighed so that public funds go further.

Source: NotiUno and RED Atlas

A woman in her eighties facing an eviction order from the two-bedroom house she has rented for 27 years in Urbanización Roosevelt, Hato Rey, San Juan, has completed the paperwork to begin the search for a permanent home and has shown interest in a unit at one of the housing projects presented to her, elvocero.com reported on Thursday, October 15, 2026. The Puerto Rico Department of Housing will coordinate a visit by her lawyer to the available unit in the complex she chose, a department spokesperson told the outlet.

Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas

Authority opens Carraízo floodgate as Trujillo Alto neighborhood lists homes for rent and sale

The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority opened one of the large floodgates of the Carraízo dam in Trujillo Alto on Sunday, releasing water in a controlled way to lower the reservoir by several centimeters, telemundopr.com reported.

Source: Telemundo Puerto Rico and RED Atlas

The Representative for New York's 15th district pledged to push in Washington for higher HUD income limits, which decide who qualifies for subsidized housing in Puerto Rico, at the Puerto Rico Builders Association's 53rd annual convention, held October 7 and 8 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, El Vocero reported.

Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas

An $8 million mortgage on a Dorado Country Estates lot

A loan of $8,000,000 from E.M.I. Equity Mortgage, Inc. is now secured against a property at Urbanización Dorado Country Estates, Unit 25, Higuillar, Dorado, 00646, in a deed recorded on August 5, 2026, according to property records analysed by RED Atlas.

Source: RED Atlas

Santa Rosa housing project in Guaynabo gets an approved construction permit

A project of 102 housing units at PR-833 Km 8.5, Urb. Monte Azul, Bo. Santa Rosa, Guaynabo has one approved construction permit and a second one under inspection, according to permit filings analysed by RED Atlas.

Source: RED Atlas

Elicorp Holdings pays $7.8 million for a Dorado Beach East property in Dorado

Elicorp Holdings LLC bought Urbanización Dorado Beach East, Unit 111, Higuillar, Dorado, 00646 for $7,800,000, in a deed recorded on October 1, 2026.

Source: RED Atlas

A court marshal went on Thursday, October 8, 2026, to evict an 85-year-old woman from the two-bedroom house she has rented for 27 years in Urbanización Roosevelt, San Juan, and the eviction was not carried out because several government agencies did not arrive, elvocero.com reported. After nearly two hours of waiting the eviction was called off, with no home to move her and her three dogs to, claridadpuertorico.com reported.

Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas