The below article was written on March 7, 2019 and not posted until November 30, 2019
I hear from people who tell me that they have read my entire blog. I find this difficult to believe. When I started blogging (I think this was around 2003), it was recommended that blog articles be around 1,000 … Read on...
This article was published in the magazine “Montañas al Mar” in April of 2010. I have taken some author’s prerogative and made some changes to this posting.
In last month’s issue of Monaña Mar, we established a couple of points that help one stick … Read on...
One thing you get used to, living in Costa Rica, is that there is really nothing constant but change. There have been some rather profound changes here as of late, not in laws, but in the application of existing laws regarding water.
The current catch is that, if you buy a piece of raw land, … Read on...
This article can serve as a stand-alone read, but if you’d like to read the preceding, sequential articles in this series, please click for: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. The scope of these articles starts roughly in the 1970’s up to the present.
The idea here is that we are living … Read on...
This is part 4 of a 4 part series. Click for: Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3
Due Diligence
The term for due diligence is normally 3 weeks, and closing is usually in 4. Due diligence starts when the deposit … Read on...
After venturing through the early days of real estate in Costa Rica, this is to say, the beginnings of what led up to the current market conditions in parts 1 & 2, we now embark on the boom before … Read on...
Below is a copy and paste from an e-mail inquiry regarding buying a property for the purpose of investment initially. It needs to be an existing rental property that the buyers intend to move to and live in at a future time. They need for the property to, at the very least, cover its expenses … Read on...
Blue Zone did 24 sales in November and 16 in December, nicely closing out the 2017 year and calling to mind the feel of the market in the heady market years of 2004 – 2007. Back then the main concern of property buyers was finding an available and attentive real estate agent. The main topic … Read on...
In Part 1 we considered the early foreign investors in real estate here in Costa Rica’s southern Pacific zone. The idea being that in so doing, we’ll have have a better understanding of the real estate market here. We continue … Read on...
Interested in Costa Rica real estate as an investment. They primarily live somewhere else, but they own property in Costa Rica for the asset appreciation potential as well as possible rental income. Some just buy and hold (land-bank). For developed properties, the investor has a vacation home to visit as desired.
Migrators spend a regular amount of time in Costa Rica during each year.
Re-locators are those that are looking to move to Costa Rica from wherever they are. They will live full-time in Costa Rica.
