About Roofs and Rents

This website, roofsandrents, is for people in Latin America who are dealing with the practicalities of housing. It covers the entire process of finding and keeping a home, whether that involves renting, buying, or building. The site is organised into sections including News, Renting, Buying, Building and renovating, Living in your home, Market, Taxes and ongoing costs, Risk and safety, and Letting a property. Each section provides specific information on those topics.

The news stories on roofsandrents are produced by rewriting reports from named and linked sources, such as government bodies, regulatory agencies, and major financial institutions. These reports are checked against each other for consistency and accuracy. Every published story carries a clear publication date. No original facts, figures, or quotes are invented by the site.

The site builds permanent reference pages to support its news coverage. These include entries for Country rules, City markets, Process guides, Neighbourhoods, Programmes, Indices, and Agencies. Each reference page is built to a consistent format, beginning with a facts table of key data. It is divided into logical sections and includes at least one real photograph, which is always credited to its source. These pages are reviewed and updated when the laws, programmes, or market conditions they describe change.

This website is editorially independent. It is not affiliated with any estate agency, developer, bank, or government programme that it reports on. It does not publish betting or gambling-related content. If an error is published, a correction is made openly and can be viewed on the site’s corrections page at /corrections/.

For queries or to suggest a correction, please use the contact form at /contact/. The aim of roofsandrents is to be a plain, reliable, and useful source of housing information for its readers.