Three questions decide whether anything else matters: can you own it, does the register hold, and is your deposit protected. Here are the answers for Mauritius, each with the law or source it rests on. The answers are written for EU and EEA citizens; where rules differ for other nationals, the ownership answer says so. As of September 2026.
The core answers
Can you buy property here as an EU citizen?
Purchase only within the approved IRS, RES, PDS or Smart City schemes, or an apartment from USD 375,000 with approval of the Economic Development Board.
Legal basis: Non-Citizens (Property Restriction) Act; EDB Guidelines
Is your deposit protected by law?
VEFA on the French model: notarial contract, completion guarantee (garantie financière d'achèvement) from a bank, payment by construction progress
Source: harcourts.co.mu · 2025
Residence
Residence permit under the Immigration Act on purchase of a property above USD 375,000 under IRS, RES, PDS or Smart City
Source: edbmauritius.org
First thing to check
- Whether the project is actually registered under one of the approved schemes. Without that registration the purchase is void.
All 24 dimensions
Scale 0 to 100, higher is better. Each value shows where it comes from: tied to a published index, own research with a source on file, or approximated from comparable countries.
Law and register
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Property rights | 53 | Index |
| Register | 74 | Research |
| Deposit protection | 75 | Research |
| Rule of law | 54 | Index |
| Freedom from corruption | 48 | Index |
| Political stability | 80 | Index |
Money and market
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase costs | 14 | Index |
| Tax burden | 86 | Index |
| Entry price | 46 | Index |
| Rental yield | 27 | Research |
| Short-term rental | 60 | Research |
| Price development | 27 | Approximation |
| Demand pipeline | 12 | Index |
Residence and access
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | 95 | Research |
| Exit | 70 | Index |
| Currency | 39 | Index |
| Accessibility | 34 | Research |
Place and building stock
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Climate | 49 | Index |
| Natural hazards | 71 | Index |
| Utilities | 56 | Index |
| Build quality | 76 | Research |
| Construction cost | 63 | Research |
| Quality of life | 35 | Approximation |
| Healthcare | 41 | Approximation |
Researched individually
These entries do not come from an index but from research for this country. The source is given with each.
Residence
Residence permit by virtue of the Immigration Act on acquisition of a property above USD 375,000 under the IRS, RES, PDS or Smart City schemes
Source: edbmauritius.org · 2025
Deposit protection
VEFA (off-plan sale) on the French model: notarial contract, a garantie financière d'achèvement (financial completion guarantee) from a bank, payment in line with construction progress
Source: harcourts.co.mu · 2025
Accessibility
8,860 km great-circle distance from Munich
Source: Grosskreisentfernung Muenchen-Hauptstadt · 2026
Build quality
BQCI 14/15 (WB Doing Business 2020) + WGI Government Effectiveness 66,22 (2024), Gewicht 35/65
Source: archive.doingbusiness.org · 2019
Place and building materials
What to check in Mauritius
Derived from the four weakest dimensions of this country - statistically, that is where buyers lose money.
- Demand pipeline. Whether there is real demand behind it: migration, employment, household formation.
- Purchase costs. The actual purchase costs including transfer tax, notary, registration and agent's commission.
- Rental yield. Whether the gross yield still holds after vacancy, management and withholding tax.
- Price development. Whether price growth was real or only nominal - with inflation taken out.
Developers and projects in Mauritius
The developer index records 28 projects and 13 developers in Mauritius without rating them, each entry with source and retrieval date. An excerpt:
| Project | Place | Developer | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amara Golf Villas (Azuri) | Azuri | BlueLife Ltd | under construction |
| Ariza (Azuri) | Azuri | BlueLife Ltd | under construction |
| Celimar (Azuri) | Azuri | BlueLife Ltd | under construction |
| Ennéa Golf Villas (Azuri) | Azuri | BlueLife Ltd | sold out |
| Palmea (Azuri) | Azuri | BlueLife Ltd | completed |
| Solis (Azuri) | Azuri | BlueLife Ltd | under construction |
| Indigo - Phase 2 | Beau Plan | Novaterra | sold out |
| Mango Village - Phase 3 | Beau Plan | Novaterra | sold out |
| Souvenir | Beau Plan | Novaterra | sold out |
| Heritage Villas Valriche | Bel Ombre | Rogers Group | partly handed over |
| La Plantation Marguery | Black River | Eco Native Lodges Limited | planned |
| Le Clos du Littoral | Grand Baie | Evaco Group | under construction |
Individual project pages are currently in German; they contain the recorded data, the source and the retrieval date.
All 28 projects and 13 developers in Mauritius
What the guide cannot do
A country can look good in all three columns and the specific property can still be a total loss. The reverse is also true: in a country with a weak register, a cleanly titled plot can be entirely unproblematic. The guide tells you what the environment looks like. Whether this one property holds up is decided by the review.