An often recurring real estate FAQ Frequently Asked Question in Costa Rica real estate is should I sign a listing agreement? Have you decided to put your property on the market? Then you will want to know if you should sign a listing agreement with a real estate agent or company. There are two types…
Has anyone ever told you to not throw away your old passport? Probably not. Well, you can throw them all away, except the one(s) that you used to purchase a property in Costa Rica. Crazy eh! It sounds like a pretty stupid request, doesn’t it! Who wants to keep an old passport that is no…
Estimated Reading Time: 7 Minutes Do you know who is responsible for the condition of the house is in on the closing day? You probably think that’s an easy question to answer. But it really is not, because it depends on the circumstances. This time, the circumstances were quite common: a house that has been…
Some real estate portals offer price trend tools for those looking for comparable prices. There are many reasons there are no comparable prices in Costa Rica real estate. Statistics don’t exist either. Therefore, a price trend tool is quite the opposite of what a user is looking for. There are a few Costa Rica real…
Nearly 800 miles of coastline obliges you to do your homework before you buy beach property in Costa Rica. We are talking about over 300 beaches in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Every now and then, we receive an email from future expats who are not at all happy with what they have seen of…
Several clients have already asked me if hurricanes damage property in the Southern Caribbean. One important reason is that Costa Rica is often confused with Puerto Rico. Costa Rica is NOT an island, it is a country in Central America, in between Panama and Nicaragua. In Puerto Rico hurricanes damage property quite often. Costa Rica…
Did you know that there is an amazing amount of towns and cities with religious names in Costa Rica? I’d like to take advantage of being in a religious month to tell you more about towns and cities with religious names in Costa Rica. Very often, I get calls and emails from expats looking to…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes We’ve had a great 2017 and want to thank our readership for following our Costa Rica real estate blogs 2017. I see readers come and go, some keep visiting our blogs after they’ve left Costa Rica to live elsewhere years ago. Others start doing their homework years before they decide…
Some home sellers have several reasons why they sell their home on their own. They’re under the impression that an FSBO (for sale by owner) list will benefit them financially because when using a real estate agent they don’t have to pay a commission. On the other hand, some of them feel that it’s not…
real estate FAQ or frequently asked question in Costa Rica real estate is: is the neighborhood safe? Read any Costa Rican newspaper on any day and you’ll find stories about murder, rape, drugs, and robberies. It’s amazing that in my almost 40 years of living in Costa Rica, I have not personally experienced any of…