Argentina (AR) — civil law.
Nothing on this page describes United States practice. There is no certificate sold to an investor, no administrative sale, and no post-sale redemption window in Argentina. If you arrived carrying US assumptions, read falsos-amigos first.
Bloqueo registral
Also called reserva de prioridad. The mechanism that makes Argentine conveyancing safe
in the absence of any title-assurance market.
How it works
When an escribano (or a court, for a judicial act) requests a
certificado de dominio from the provincial
Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble, the registry
does two things: it reports the state of the parcel, and it reserves priority for the
intended act for a short statutory window. Acts registered by third parties during the
window cannot defeat the reserved act.
The escribano closes inside the window. That is the whole design.
The distinction that matters
informe de dominio | certificado de dominio | |
|---|---|---|
| Tells you the state of title | Yes | Yes |
| Reserves priority | No | Yes |
| Use | Research, diligence, pre-bid | Closing an act |
An
informeis a photograph, not a shield.It states the position at the moment it issued. An
embargo, ahipotecaor a competing sale can be registered the following morning and will rank ahead of an act you complete afterwards. Diligence before asubastais properly done on aninforme; closing is not.
Duration
The reservation window is short and its length varies with the location of the acting
escribano relative to the registry. Exact periods per jurisdiction:
needs_verification — check the provincial registry’s own regulation rather than
assuming a national figure.
At a subasta
The buyer is not closing before an escribano, so the bloqueo does not operate in the
usual way — transfer is registered by
`oficio judicial`. What a bidder should do
instead is take a fresh informe de dominio and anotaciones personales on the
ejecutado as close to the auction date as possible. See
inhibicion-general-de-bienes and
diligencia-previa-a-la-subasta.