Covering the Mountains and Beaches
of Costa Rica's Southern Zone

Often times you’ll hear or read generalizations made about the Costa Rica real estate market as a whole that might just not hold true in all cases.In fact, I even wrote a post about the fact that in Costa Rica, the exceptions are the general rules.One reason that these generalizations might not hold true is because they fail to take into account certain distinctions betwe...

I feel a bit trepidatious to broach the topic of the dreaded “G” word…After all, if you mention “gentrification” in one of the myriad of Facebook groups where wannabe expats go for advice and humiliation, you’ll be met with sneers, snickers and anecdotes about how this or that person knows a tico who’s benefiting from it.Of course, the...

Let’s face it fellow realtors, U.S. presidential election years are not generally friendly to real estate markets anywhere, be it Costa Rica or worldwide!And this is an “election year” like no other in history.Now I’m not going to get political by disclosing who I’m pulling for. I believe many of my readers already have a good idea about that&helli...