Yucatán is the tenth state with the greatest legal patrimonial uncertainty, says Díaz Mena
He Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena promulgated today Monday (11/24/2025) of decrees that they make known the benefits of the campaign Patrimonial Welfaretwo days after he announced it as the November program, Patrimonial Wellbeing Month.
According to a statement, the November 22 Diaz Mena announced that November, Heritage Wellbeing Month will benefit with house deeds to Yucatecan families “when the value of the property does not exceed one million pesos“, although he did not specify if he refers to the cadastral or commercial value.
Yucatán, tenth in property legal uncertainty in Mexico
Two days later, today Monday the 24th, Díaz Mena promulgated “Decree 126/2025 by which they are established stimuli in the payment of various fees for notarial services and the Directorate of the Public Registry of Property and Commerce on the occasion of the campaign regularization Patrimonial Welfare” and “Decree 128/2025 by which it is made known the notary fee of the State of Yucatán”.
Both decrees, in addition to changing the name and from program to campaign, expand the deadline for the deed of land to the remainder of this 2025 and the deadline to register the writings to the first half of 2026.
Two out of 10 houses, without deeds
According to the Decree 126/2025of the 514,981 homes that were in Yucatán in 2020, 104,388 (20.2%) did not have deedsa figure that places the state in the tenth national place with greater lack of legal patrimonial certainty.
The lack of property titles of a property It is multifactorial, he adds, but a relationship has been detected between this deficiency and the level of income because lPeople with the lowest incomes are the ones who face this problem more frequently.
What is Patrimonial Welfare
Given this, he states decreethe Patrimonial Wellbeing campaign to encourage the deed of real estate located in Yucatánthrough “fiscal incentives in the payment of various rights by legal acts related to the propertysuch as the mortgage cancellation, domain transfer, donations y divisions”.
Beneficiaries
About who they can be Patrimonial Welfare beneficiariesthe decree specifies that only the natural persons that comply with the following five requirements:
1) Belong to a vulnerable social sector, considered as such whoever no
receive more than one daily minimum wage in force in November 2025accredited with proof of income or, failing that, in writing under oath of truth.
This means that you must earn maximum 278.80 pesos per day (the minimum wage approved for 2025), $4,182 per fortnight or $8,364 per month.
2) Not having been a beneficiary of the incentives of this decree (126/2025) during the year 2025.
3) Not having carried out another operation of the same nature as the act that is the object of the stimulus during the year 2025.
Only homes with market value up to $1 million
4) Deed the house room where you live the taxpayer, whose commercial or operating value does not exceed one million pesosand formalize it before a notary public.
5) Not having other real estate registered in your name.
Buyers of new homes, excluded from Patrimonial Welfare
Likewise, the Decree 126/2025 indicates that the notary to whom the person goes will verify that it meets the requirements, and clarifies that people who buy a new housethat is, newly built and not sold before, They will not be able to access the stimulus.
What incentives will Patrimonial Welfare provide?
Patrimonial Welfare will give “a 100% reduction on the amount that results to be paid from the contributions caused”, specifically in the following:
I) Rights for the services of the Address of the Public Registry of Property and Commerce by deed and registration of the following legal acts:
- By the qualification of each registrable act or noteable that the document contains, provided for in the article 59section I, of the General Finance Law of the State of Yucatán.
- For any registrationprovided in the article 59section II, of the same Finance Law.
- For any registration cancellationprovided in the article 59section VIII, of the same law.
- For the registration of each property resulting from a division or for each unit of exclusive ownership of a condominium property regime, provided for in the article 59section XIII, of that law.
The stimulus of this section I will only be applied when the corresponding deed is signed before January 1, 2026 and sign up in it Public Registry of Property and Commerce until before July 1, 2026.
II) Rights through public deeds or contracts granted before any
notary publicwith or without amount, according to the article 64 of the Yucatan Treasury Law, when the scriptures or contracts granted before any notary public contain transaction price.
The stimulus of this section II will be applied only when the writing corresponding se sign before January 1, 2026.
How much money would you save with Patrimonial Wellbeing
According to the Finance Law, the qualification of any document has a rate of 1.50 Unit of Measurement and Update (UMA)that this 2025 is $113.14 a dayso the fee is $169.71 for each document; any registration, 9.70 A ($1,097.458); the registration cancellationalso 9.70 Aand the registration of a property, 6.50 A ($735.41).
While the rights of article 64 are from 7 A ($791.98) for properties up to $50,000; 13 A ($1,470.82) when the operating price is 50,000.01 to 100,000.00 pesos; of 25 A ($2,828.5), for those from 100,000.01 to 300,000.00 pesos; of 40 A ($4,525.6), for those from 300,000.01 to 500,000.00 pesos, and from 50 A ($5,657), for those from 500,000.01 to 1,000,000.00 pesos, among others.
Thus, the discounts of Patrimonial Welfare would be a minimum $3,100 in the Property Registry, if only one document is qualified, and from $791.98 to $5,657 by notarized deed.
Patrimonial Welfare: caps on notarial fees
In turn, the Decree 128/2025 orders that Notaries will charge fees for the deed of the properties that are part of Patrimonial Welfare “one percent of the total transaction on the commercial value or operating value of the propertywhichever is greater, but in no case may it be less than $5,000.00 I’m not sure if it’s $10,000.00”. That is, they will charge between 500 and a thousand pesos per property.
If the 104,388 properties, lThe notaries would obtain from 52 million 194 thousand to 104 million 388 thousand pesosy the reductions of Patrimonial Welfare would amount to at least 406 million 276 eight pesos 24 cents.
Notarial fee: cannot be updated
Likewise, the Decree 128/20025 points out that The established amounts and percentages may not be modified or updated in any case..
When In the deed of a property, two or more legal acts are recordedindicates the decree, the remuneration will be determined, unless this decree expressly states otherwise, in accordance with the following procedure:
- It will apply to the act of greatest amount the preferential amount established in article 2 of this decree (that is, the notary will charge 1% as fees).
- To each of the subsequent acts, complementary accessories, 50% of the remuneration that as the only ones that correspond to them.
Both Díaz Mena decrees came into force todayNovember 24, 2025; andl 126/2025 will be valid until June 30, 2026 and the 128/2025that of notarial discounts, up to the December 31, 2025.