In my opinion, do NOT buy from a developer, you will be in a north american or european style housing estate, the security will sound great with guards all over the place mostly it seems to me in league with crooks and some members of the police, the individual house security will be rubbish, the price will be a rip off, the developer will make a lot of money most of which will not remain in the RD. Here in LT the majority of robberies are from such houses. Ask around, buy your own piece of land and get get a local dominican to build to your specification dominican style. The first house I was invo;ved with here cost over US$100,000, it looked lovely but it was mediteranean style, hot as hell, started dropping to pieces after one year,had electric!!! water heating and was totally unsuitable, we had a developer , who spent most of his time on a yacht, a maestro who turned up in an expensive car once a week, made us pay for materials which turned out to be hopelessly over ordered and took the surplus for his own use. He took nearly two years to build.
Now we have a house that is exactly to our specifications, dominican built, 5 bedrooms, pool, excellent security and cost around US$ 40,000, including the land.