The real numbers behind buying property in Morocco, including every fee, tax, and hidden cost no one warns you about upfront.
When you sell property in Morocco as a foreigner, you pay a capital gains tax of 20% on the profit, with a minimum flat tax of 3% on the total sale price, even if you made no profit. Most foreigners don’t know about that 3% minimum rule, and it catches people off guard at the…
I almost paid 180,000 dirhams in capital gains tax on a property sale I didn’t need to pay at all. Not because I was doing anything wrong. I just didn’t know the exemptions existed. My notary mentioned the tax, I panicked, and I nearly wrote the check before a friend who works in real estate…
I almost lost 60,000 dirhams because I assumed Morocco’s tax rules worked the same way they did back home. That was my first mistake. And it nearly cost me a significant chunk of profit on a riad I sold in Marrakech after holding it for three years. If you’re a foreigner who owns property in…
Le notaire m'avait annoncé des frais de 50 000 MAD. Au moment de la signature, j'avais déboursé 94 000 MAD. Personne ne m'a menti. C'est juste que j'ignorais ce que j'ignorais. Si vous êtes un étranger qui achète un bien immobilier au Maroc et que vous essayez de comprendre ce que coûtent réellement les droits de mutation immobilière au Maroc, voici l'article que j'aurais aimé trouver…
When foreigners ask me about buying property in Morocco, they usually focus on one thing: the price of the property But from my experience, that is only part of the story. The real surprise for most buyers comes later, when they discover the extra costs. And the biggest one is always: notary fees I have…