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 Paraguay, 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?
Full ownership like nationals. In the 50-kilometre border zone restrictions apply to nationals of neighbouring countries.
Legal basis: Ley 2532/2005, Zona de Seguridad Fronteriza
Residence
Permanent residence for investors under Ley 6984/22 only with an MIC investor certificate via SUACE; no property route
Source: suace.gov.py
First thing to check
- Whether the area stated in the title matches the cadastral survey and whether a competing chain of title exists for the same land. Multiple titling is the most common cause of total loss here.
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 | 27 | Index |
| Register | 44 | Research |
| Deposit protection | 32 | Research |
| Rule of law | 31 | Index |
| Freedom from corruption | 19 | Index |
| Political stability | 59 | Index |
Money and market
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase costs | 38 | Approximation |
| Tax burden | 95 | Index |
| Entry price | 78 | Research |
| Price development | 39 | Approximation |
| Demand pipeline | 62 | Index |
Residence and access
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | 40 | Research |
| Exit | 88 | Index |
| Currency | 30 | Index |
| Accessibility | 24 | Research |
Place and building stock
| Dimension | Score | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Climate | 66 | Index |
| Natural hazards | 84 | Index |
| Utilities | 38 | Index |
| Build quality | 48 | Research |
| Construction cost | 68 | Research |
| Quality of life | 40 | Approximation |
| Healthcare | 61 | Approximation |
Researched individually
These entries do not come from an index but from research for this country. The source is given with each.
Residence
Permanent residence for investors under Ley 6984/22 only with an investor certificate from the MIC (Ministry of Industry and Trade) via SUACE; no property route
Source: suace.gov.py · 2024
Accessibility
10,666 km great-circle distance from Munich
Source: Grosskreisentfernung Muenchen-Hauptstadt · 2026
Build quality
BQCI 8/15 (WB Doing Business 2020) + WGI Government Effectiveness 44,45 (2024), Gewicht 35/65
Source: archive.doingbusiness.org · 2019
Place and building materials
What to check in Paraguay
Derived from the four weakest dimensions of this country - statistically, that is where buyers lose money.
- Freedom from corruption. Whether permits are granted by rules or by connections.
- Accessibility. How often you can realistically get there - and whether a site inspection is possible in one day.
- Property rights. Whether you can acquire full ownership at all as a foreign private individual - or only a right of use, a company or a special zone.
- Currency. The exchange-rate risk between purchase currency, rental currency and your own.
Developers and projects in Paraguay
The developer index records 31 projects and 15 developers in Paraguay without rating them, each entry with source and retrieval date. An excerpt:
| Project | Place | Developer | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garay | Asunción | Habitalis | sold out |
| Las Mercedes | Asunción | Habitalis | sold out |
| Lynch | Asunción | Habitalis | sold out |
| Matrisa Boggiani | Asunción | Matrisa Desarrollos Inmobiliarios | completed |
| Matrisa Lillo | Asunción | Matrisa Desarrollos Inmobiliarios | under construction |
| Mburucuyá | Asunción | Habitalis | under construction |
| Molas López | Asunción | Habitalis | sold out |
| Mova Recoleta | Asunción | Singular Desarrollos | under construction |
| Mova del Sol | Asunción | Singular Desarrollos | on sale |
| Sajonia | Asunción | Habitalis | sold out |
| Villa Morra | Asunción | Habitalis | under construction |
| Gala Dali | Barrio Jara | Grupo Gala | completed |
Individual project pages are currently in German; they contain the recorded data, the source and the retrieval date.
All 31 projects and 15 developers in Paraguay
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.