Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Title in Aguadilla is public in the Puerto Rico Property Registry at $5–$10 a parcel online, but no owner file is published; the ground that defines the town is public — the Ports Authority's 1,600-acre former Ramey airfield, the Coast Guard's air station, and the Municipality's water park, ice rink and plazas — while the owners of the mall, the Marriott and the hospital could not be established.
9 buildings · 5 with an owner established · 17 sources · 3 tier B · 6 tier A · prepared 2026-10-31
Puerto Rico registers title in the Registro de la Propiedad, part of the Department of Justice; Aguadilla has its own Registry section, served from the western seat in Mayagüez. The law says the Registry 'es público para quienes tengan interés en conocer el estado jurídico' of a property. It is searched online through the Karibe system, which needs an account and charges $5 a parcel for a plain sheet ('hoja simple') or $10 to view the inscription folios. Property tax is assessed separately by CRIM on 1957-based values, and CRIM publishes no bulk owner file.
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rafael Hernández International Airport (former Ramey Air Force Base) Aguadilla (Borinquen), BQN 1,600 acres (647 ha) |
Civic | Puerto Rico Ports Authority Wikipedia's infobox: 'Airport type Public; Owner Puerto Rico Ports Authority'. The article says the airport 'covers an area of 1600 acres (647 ha)', and that 'the airport was transferred from the U.S. Air Force and the General Services Administration (GSA) to Puerto Rico Port Authority in 1973'; the undeveloped south side 'has been the object of various disputes and competing political campaign promises'. 738,766 passengers in 2024. The federal government bought the original 3,796 acres of cane farms in September 1939 for $1,215,000 (Wikipedia, Ramey AFB, s5). Lufthansa Technik's hangar sits on the airfield; its lease terms were not found. |
Government | —B |
| Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen Ramey, Aguadilla (at Rafael Hernández Airport) |
Civic | United States of America (U.S. Coast Guard) Wikipedia (Ramey AFB): 'In 1973, after the deactivation of Ramey AFB, the Coast Guard took possession of an outstanding hangar, a part of the Air Force housing area and the DoDEA Ramey Unit School for the newly formed Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen.' 'The Punta Borinquen Light was transferred to the Coast Guard and converted to MWR Guest Housing.' The Army Reserve, the Puerto Rico National Guard and the PR Air National Guard (Punta Borinquen Radar Station) also have facilities at Ramey. GSA's inventory lists no GSA-owned building in Aguadilla (s7), because these are agency-held. No acreage is published in the sources opened. |
Government | —A |
| Las Cascadas Water Park Aguadilla, PR 00604 |
Civic | Municipio Autónomo de Aguadilla Wikipedia: 'The park is owned and administered by Aguadilla's municipal government'; opened 1985; 10 attractions. The Municipality's FY2024-25 budget (s3) lists 'CASCADAS Y PISTA DE HIELO' among municipal facilities it rents out, to Empresas Ciudad de Encantos at $2,000 a month ($24,000 a year), and budgets $767,898.33 for 'Reparación y mitigación chorreras Parque Las Cascadas'. Wikipedia's Aguadilla article says the park closed after Hurricane María in 2017. |
Government | —B |
| Aguadilla Ice Skating Arena (A.I.S.A.) Aguadilla |
Civic | Municipio Autónomo de Aguadilla Wikipedia: 'The facility is owned and administered by the city'; opened 2005 as 'the only ice skating facility in the Caribbean region', now 'Aguadilla Shark Roller Rink'; the ice rink 'has been closed since it was heavily damaged during Hurricane Maria'. The same municipal lease (with Las Cascadas, $2,000 a month to Empresas Ciudad de Encantos) appears in the FY2024-25 budget (s3). |
Government | —A |
| Casa Alcaldía and municipal government buildings Aguadilla Pueblo (street address not stated in the source) |
Civic | Municipio Autónomo de Aguadilla The FY2024-25 budget's certificate of 'facilidades Municipales Alquiladas por el Municipio' (26 Apr 2024) lists the 'Edificio Anexo Casa Alcaldía' let to Banco Popular de P.R. at $225 a month, plus Parque Colón, Plaza Plácido Acevedo, Plaza Los Catalanes, the Fuente de la Juventud and the municipal cafeteria; 16 lets total $172,812 a year. Permanent-works list: 'Edificios del Gobierno Municipal' $4,123,271.12, 'Mejoras Parque Colón' $7,061,225.63, parking in front of Plaza Plácido Acevedo $6,105,756.76, Estadio Canena Márquez $2,198,191.73, demolition of Coliseo Luis T. Díaz $1,205,455. |
Government | —A |
| Aguadilla Mall State Road #2, Km 126.5 (Avenida Los Corazones), Aguadilla 267,816 sq ft GLA |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it The leasing sheet of Commercial Centers Management Realty S. en C. (CCM) gives 267,816 sq ft GLA, a multi-level garage of over 2,000 spaces, and anchors Burlington (30,117 sq ft), TJ Maxx (24,930), Pueblo (38,393), Capri and Happy Land, with unit 1B (28,640 sq ft) available. CCM calls itself 'a commercial real estate management company' providing 'acquisition, development, leasing, and asset management services' — management is not ownership, and no page names the owning entity. A Registry folio ($5–$10) would. |
Not established | —A |
| Courtyard by Marriott Aguadilla (Punta Borinquen Resort & Casino) Ramey, Aguadilla |
Hotel | Not established a paid title search would answer it Wikipedia's Aguadilla article: the former Ramey base hospital 'is now the Courtyard by Marriott Punta Borinquen Resort & Casino, a 150-room hotel with a casino and the first Marriott in Puerto Rico outside of the San Juan Metropolitan Area'; the barracks host the 79-room Faro Inn Suites and the Officers' Club the 22,000 sq ft Faro Conference Center. Who holds the hotel, and under what title from the former base land, was not established; no SEC filing or press release naming an owner was found. |
Not established | —A |
| Hospital Buen Samaritano Aguadilla |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it Operated by Hospital Comunitario Buen Samaritano, Inc., a 501(c)(3) (EIN 66-0571457, exemption Nov 2010). Its Dec 2024 Form 990, as extracted by ProPublica, shows revenue $29,615,909, total assets $27,899,337, liabilities $28,493,460 (net assets –$594,123) and rental property income $599,597. Whether the corporation owns the hospital land and buildings is in Schedule D, which robots.txt bars us from opening, so the owner is left blank. Wikipedia names it one of Aguadilla's two major medical facilities. |
Not established | —A |
| University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla Former Ramey base, Aguadilla |
Institutional | Not established the source would not open Wikipedia: a public campus established in 1972 (formerly Colegio Regional de Aguadilla), 1,765 students (2023); Wikipedia's Aguadilla article (s10) places it in 'the area which formerly housed Ramey'. No opened source states who holds title to the campus land, and uprag.edu timed out. |
Not established | —B |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Puerto Rico taxes property on 1957-based values set by CRIM, so Aguadilla's levy figures are far below market value and not comparable with a US mainland roll. No parcel-level value or principal-taxpayer table could be opened: CRIM's cadastre host reset every connection. Figures are from the Municipality's FY2024-25 budget (s3), which reprints CRIM's revenue estimate approved 21 Mar 2024 (Resolución 2024-39).
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Aguadilla's largest holdings are public and come from Ramey Air Force Base: the federal government bought 3,796 acres of cane land in 1939, and when the base closed in 1973 the airfield passed to the Puerto Rico Ports Authority while the Coast Guard kept a hangar, housing and a school. A 1979 authority set up to run the Punta Borinquen complex under a U.S. Army licence (DACA 01-3-74-3030) was dissolved in 1998 and its property handed to the Municipality. No private landowner total could be computed, because CRIM's cadastre was unreachable.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico Ports Authority Owner per Wikipedia's infobox; transferred from the USAF and GSA in 1973. Search results describe Senate measures (P. del S. 493, 2017; R. C. del S. 21, 2021) asking the Authority to cede Crash Boat lands it took from the federal government in 1978, but those PDFs did not open, so that holding is not counted. |
Government | 1,600 acres (Rafael Hernández Airport)A |
| United States of America (U.S. Coast Guard; GSA leases) Coast Guard holdings per Wikipedia (s5). GSA's IOLP file of 23 Oct 2026 lists three LEASED Aguadilla buildings and none owned: 'Aguadilla', Road 459 La Montaña Industrial Park (11,402 sq ft, lease to 31 Mar 2029); SSA Aguadilla, 5000 Pedro Albizu Campos Ave (9,000 sq ft, to 31 Jan 2028); and space at Rafael Hernández Int'l Airport (1,640 sq ft, to 31 Mar 2027). The landlords are not named. |
Government | CGAS Borinquen hangar, housing area, school, Punta Borinquen Light; GSA: 0 owned, 3 leased buildings (22,042 sq ft)B |
| Municipio Autónomo de Aguadilla Ley 24 of 10 Jan 1998 transferred to the Municipality 'todas las funciones … personal, la propiedad mueble e inmueble' of the Autoridad para la Administración y Desarrollo de Punta Borinquen; its preamble says the properties the Authority administered 'han sido vendidas a entidades o cedidas al Gobierno de Puerto Rico por los Estados Unidos' (s12). Facility list from the FY2024-25 budget (s3). |
Government | Las Cascadas, the ice arena, Parque Colón, plazas, Estadio Canena Márquez; former Punta Borinquen Authority propertyB |
| Departamento de Recreación y Deportes (DRD) El Nuevo Día, 12 Aug 2020: the Governor ordered the DRD to agree with the non-profit 'Rescate Playas Borinquen' 'para administrar, custodiar y desarrollar las parcelas de terreno pertenecientes a la agencia en el barrio Punta Borinquen en Aguadilla'. Only the paywall-free lead was read. |
Government | Parcels in barrio Punta Borinquen (area not stated)A |
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
There is no new-home league table for Aguadilla. The Census Bureau's county permit files carry no Puerto Rico rows, and the CDBG-DR Gap-to-LIHTC roster of placed-in-service projects (July 2025) lists no Aguadilla project (s13). Two searches for a named Aguadilla housing project with a developer and unit count found none that could be opened; the one public-housing item (José A. Aponte residencial) appeared only on metro.pr, which is not fetched. No builder is therefore named.
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No commercial owner of a large Aguadilla building could be established from an open source: the mall is managed by CCM, whose pages do not name the owner, and the island's listed banks (Popular, First BanCorp, OFG) do not mention Aguadilla in their 2025 10-Ks. The two landlords below are the ones whose rent is on the public record.
| Name | Type | Rents |
|---|---|---|
| Municipio Autónomo de Aguadilla Certificate of 26 Apr 2024 in the FY2024-25 budget: municipal facilities let to businesses — Las Cascadas and the ice rink, Parque Colón (Aguadilla Rooftop LLC, $2,000/month), Plaza Plácido Acevedo (Anchor Bay, $1,200), the Casa Alcaldía annex (Banco Popular, $225), Fuente de la Juventud, Plaza Los Catalanes and others. Budgeted 'Renta de locales y propiedad municipal' $175,000. Individual lessees are not named here. |
Government | 16 lets, $172,812 a yearA |
| Hospital Comunitario Buen Samaritano, Inc. Form 990 for the year ending Dec 2024, as extracted on ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer. What is let is not stated on the summary page. |
Institution | $599,597 rental property income (2024)A |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Owners of Aguadilla Mall, the Courtyard by Marriott / Punta Borinquen Resort, Hospital Buen Samaritano's real estate and the UPR Aguadilla campus: each needs a Registry folio ($5–$10 on Karibe) or a filing that was not found.
- Whether the Punta Borinquen golf course and Crash Boat lands have passed to the Municipality: search results describe 2017 and 2021 Senate measures asking for it, but the PDFs returned 'Página no encontrada'.
- Lufthansa Technik Puerto Rico's hangar (over 215,000 sq ft per trade press seen in search) is on Ports Authority land under 2014 agreements; the lease terms and who owns the hangar building were not established.
- Industrial plants named by Wikipedia (Honeywell, HPE, LifeScan at San Antonio Technological Park; Lockheed Martin and Suiza Dairy at Camaseyes) — no filing names their Aguadilla real estate as owned or leased, and PRIDCO's property site lists only space offered for rent.
- CRIM's top-taxpayer list and highest-valued parcel for Aguadilla: CRIM's cadastre host reset every connection.
- No named new-home builder or unit count for Aguadilla could be opened.
Sources
- Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria (Ley Núm. 210-2015, según enmendada), Art. 2 — Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto, Biblioteca Virtual · openA
- Reglamento General para la Aplicación de la Ley Núm. 209-2015 (Reglamento Núm. 8714), Art. 6.1 — Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico · openA
- Registro de la Propiedad: sedes y secciones (Sede Oeste en Mayagüez: Aguadilla, Mayagüez y San Sebastián) — Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico · openA
- Presupuesto Municipio Autónomo de Aguadilla, año fiscal 2024-2025 (Resolución Núm. 114, Serie 2023-2024; CRIM Estimado de Ingresos AF2025; certificación de facilidades municipales alquiladas; obras y mejoras permanentes) — Municipio Autónomo de Aguadilla, via Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto (docs.pr.gov) · openA
- Rafael Hernández International Airport — Wikipedia · openA
- Ramey Air Force Base — Wikipedia · openA
- Las Cascadas Water Park — Wikipedia · openA
- Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties (IOLP): buildings and leases files, 2026-10-23 — U.S. General Services Administration, via catalog.data.gov / inventory.data.gov · openA
- Aguadilla Ice Skating Arena — Wikipedia · openA
- Aguadilla Mall leasing sheet; Aguadilla Mall property page; About Us — Commercial Centers Management Realty S. en C. · openA
- Aguadilla, Puerto Rico — Wikipedia · openA
- Hospital Comunitario Buen Samaritano Inc (EIN 66-0571457) — Nonprofit Explorer — ProPublica (IRS Form 990 data) · openA
- Ley Núm. 24 de 10 de enero de 1998: Ley para Transferir al Municipio de Aguadilla la Autoridad para la Administración y Desarrollo de Punta Borinquen — Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto, Biblioteca Virtual · openA
- CDBG-DR Gap to LIHTC Program: Project Management Agent Roster (updated 9 Jul 2025) — Puerto Rico Department of Housing (recuperacion.pr.gov) · openA
- Wanda Vázquez ordena al DRD a firmar acuerdo de administración de terrenos en Aguadilla — El Nuevo Día · openA
- University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla — Wikipedia · openA
- Karibe — Registro Inmobiliario Digital — Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico · registrationC