Although the paperwork that needs to be submitted to the Ministries of Health and Environment is now more streamlined, entrepreneurs are proposing the implementation of a single window in order to further speed up procedures.
Companies in the construction sector say that there is some improvement in the speed with which the procedures are managed in the Ministries of Health and Environment, but there is still a need to improve the time it takes to obtain a license.To achieve this, constructors have proposed the creation of a single window where all procedures can be centralized.
There is need to develop more vertical residential projects in urban areas at low cost and with reduced areas.
Small houses with sale prices of less than $32 thousand are what need to be built in order to increase the supply of properties for low socio-economic segments of the population in urban areas.
The decrease in the taxes paid on the purchase of existing homes in Guatemala is probably the main factor in the interannual rise of 26% in the System for Development Insured Mortgages (FHA).
Sergio Irungaray Suarez, manager of the FHA, said: "We estimate that this benefit will be more and more in demand and, therefore, it will partly solve homelessness."