Real Estate Compliance
FIUTT Real Estate Registration in Trinidad & Tobago
Understand FIUTT registration for real estate businesses in Trinidad and Tobago, the AML/CFT/CPF supervisory context, and DSDillon’s RE/LB/098/2025 registration reference.
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The direct answer
Real estate is one of the listed-business categories supervised by the Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (FIUTT). Businesses carrying on applicable listed-business activities are required to register with the FIUTT under the relevant supervisory framework.
The registration is part of Trinidad and Tobago’s anti-money-laundering, counter-financing-of-terrorism and counter-proliferation-financing framework. It identifies the business to the supervisory authority and brings applicable compliance obligations into the operating environment.
Why real estate businesses fall within FIUTT supervision
Property transactions can involve large values, multiple parties, source-of-funds questions and movement of money between buyers, sellers and professional intermediaries. The supervisory framework therefore places relevant real estate activity within the listed-business system.
Registration is one part of compliance. A supervised entity may also have obligations involving customer due diligence, record keeping, suspicious-activity reporting, internal controls, training and other measures required by the applicable legislation and FIUTT guidance.
DSDillon’s real estate registration reference
Company credential
FIUTT Real Estate registration reference: RE/LB/098/2025.
DSDillon publishes this reference so landlords, property owners, clients and counterparties can distinguish a regulatory-registration reference from general marketing claims.
FIUTT registration is not an endorsement or professional licence
The registration should be described accurately. It is evidence of registration within the FIUTT supervisory framework for the stated business category. It does not mean that FIUTT endorses DSDillon, guarantees a transaction, certifies investment performance or replaces any other professional, contractual or statutory requirement that may apply.
How to verify the regulatory framework
FIUTT publishes the registration process and the current Listed Business registration form on its official website. The form identifies Real Estate as one of the categories covered by the listed-business registration process.
Registration creates an ongoing compliance environment for a real estate business.
The FIUTT registration process requires supervised entities to identify their business activity, ownership or control information and other required particulars. Once registered, a real estate business still needs operating controls that match the AML/CFT/CPF framework. That can include customer due diligence, beneficial-ownership information, records, internal procedures and reporting obligations where the law and FIUTT guidance require them.
FIUTT’s 2026 renewal notice makes the lifecycle more explicit. Certificates issued after 16 November 2025 are subject to five-year renewal, with the renewal application due three months before expiry. Earlier registrants should consult the current FIUTT renewal notice for the transition timetable that applies to their certificate.
- Registration status should be checked separately from a property agent’s claims about a transaction.
- Property ownership, title, valuation, financing and contractual terms need their own verification.
- A supervised entity should keep its FIUTT information current when its operations change.
For landlords, buyers and sellers
Use the registration reference as one part of counterparty due diligence. It does not replace a lawyer’s title work, lender underwriting, valuation, survey, contract review or other checks appropriate to the property.
Current primary source: FIUTT 2026 Mandatory Registration Renewal Notice
Sources and methodology
Regulatory descriptions were checked against FIUTT’s official registration materials on 17 September 2026. DSDillon’s registration reference shown above is the company credential reference supplied for publication.
