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Nomad City Condo is the flagship Samana Group real-estate project on the Samana peninsula in the Dominican Republic. It is the project where most investor money has gone — and the project where most of the unanswered questions cluster. This page is a focused buyer’s guide: what was promised, what is actually on site, and what to verify before any deposit changes hands.

What buyers were promised in the marketing

Sales materials describe Nomad City Condo as a master-planned community on the north-east coast of the Dominican Republic, with apartments aimed at international buyers and short-stay rental yields. The pitch typically includes:

• A USD 5,000 reservation fee to lock a unit.
• A delivery date measured in months, not years.
• Strong projected rental yields based on Booking, Google and TripAdvisor performance of nearby properties.
• An option to swap an existing apartment elsewhere — for example in Poland — as part-payment for a Nomad City unit.

That last option is not theoretical: as documented in the main investigation, at least one investor handed over a Szczecin apartment in exchange for a Nomad City house. That apartment was later sold quietly, with the proceeds disappearing into the company — without the security it was supposed to provide for Polish lenders.

Reality on the construction site

Buyers who travelled to the Dominican Republic to inspect the project report a very different picture from the renderings:

• To this day, there are no construction plans approved by the Dominican authorities for several of the buildings being marketed.
• There are no foundations on site for many of the apartments that have already been sold.
• In every Samana Group photo, the same single excavator appears — a small detail with a large meaning.
• The actual person managing construction is Belen Reyes, sister of Yaritza Reyes — with no documented prior experience in development projects of this scale.

If you bought your apartment two years ago and there is still no foundation, that is not a delay. That is a structural problem with how the project was sold relative to how it is being built.

Duplicate apartment sales: same unit, different buyers

The most serious finding from our work with Nomad City buyers is that the same apartment has been sold to several different clients on separate contracts. We have seen reservation agreements and signed sale contracts for identical units issued to different individuals.

Under Dominican law, this is not a paperwork mix-up. Selling the same real-estate unit to multiple buyers is a textbook fraud pattern. It also means that — even if construction is eventually completed — only one of the buyers can ever receive the unit they paid for. Everyone else is left chasing a refund that, as the next section shows, is not paid out.

USD 5,000 reservation fees that are not being refunded

The reservation fee model at Nomad City is straightforward in theory: pay USD 5,000, secure a unit, walk away within the cancellation window if conditions are not met. In practice, withdrawing from the project does not produce a refund. Two specific cases documented in the Facts vs. Lies section:

• An investor from Miami who paid USD 5,000 for a plot that turned out to be unsuitable. No alternative was offered, the refund was denied, the land remains undeveloped.
• An investor from New York who reports an identical scenario.

Casa Hybrid in El Valle — another Samana Group property — was sold quickly to avoid creditors, and even there reservation fees of USD 5,000 from multiple clients were never returned. The fee model has effectively become a one-way door: easy to enter, expensive to exit.

Dominican Republic due-diligence checklist

Buying off-plan in the Dominican Republic is not inherently dangerous — but it requires the same discipline you would apply at home. Before signing anything with Nomad City Condo or any Samana Group entity:

1. Verify the construction permit (Permiso de Construcción). Demand the document number and check it directly with the local Ayuntamiento.
2. Check the title (Título de Propiedad) at the Dominican Land Registry — including the parcel number for the specific unit.
3. Use independent escrow. Do not transfer the reservation fee directly into a Samana operational account. Use a Dominican notary or a regulated escrow agent unrelated to the seller.
4. Demand a uniqueness certificate: written confirmation from the developer that the specific apartment unit you are reserving has not been sold or reserved to anyone else, with personal liability for the signatory.
5. Read the cancellation clause out loud. If the contract says the reservation fee is non-refundable under any circumstances, you are paying USD 5,000 for an option, not a deposit.
6. Search the seller’s litigation history in the Dominican Republic, Poland and the United States. The April 2026 update on the main page describes active litigation in four jurisdictions.
7. Check parallel entities. A new company, GRUPO SAMANA REH SAS (tax number 133-45383-5), was registered in the Dominican Republic with a confusingly similar name. Confirm in writing which legal entity will own the unit at the moment of delivery.

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