Foreign investment in real estate services (agents and brokers) is subject to reciprocity.
"Section 2: Definitions
Section 2
Within the meaning of this Decree, the following terms mean: [...]
- Real estate expert: an independent professional, natural or legal person, whose job is to define, in all impartiality and with precision, the market or rental value of a property, a land right and a real estate right, which it is residential, business, business, agricultural, forestry, craft or industrial, leisure, office;
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CHAPTER 2: CONDITIONS FOR PRACTICE OF THE PROFESSION OF REAL ESTATE EXPERT
Section 1: Terms.
Section 3
The real estate experts are part of an organization called “Chamber of real estate experts of the Democratic Republic of Congo”
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Section 4
The exercise of the profession of real estate expert is reserved for members of the Chamber. It is done either individually or in association, according to the procedures set out in the statutes and regulations of the Chamber.
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Section 6
No one can be admitted as a member of the Chamber of Real Estate Experts if he does not meet the following conditions: - Have Congolese nationality;
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Section 7
Subject to reciprocity with the country of origin of the applicant or under international conventions, the exercise of the profession of real estate expert by a foreigner, individually or in association, is subject to the conditions set by the Chamber.
Persons of foreign nationality take the following oath before the same court of appeal: "I swear to fulfill faithfully, in soul and conscience, according to the prescriptions of the Constitution and the Laws of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the missions which will be entrusted as a real estate expert".[...]" (DECREE N° 13/032 OF JUNE 25, 2013 REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF THE PROFESSION OF REAL ESTATE EXPERT [google translation])
DECREE N° 13/032 OF JUNE 25, 2013 REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF THE PROFESSION OF REAL ESTATE EXPERT [google translation]
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