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A Full Legal Cost Breakdown and Guide to Buying a Home or Property in Costa Rica
The current pandemic affecting the world generated an unexpected effect on the real estate market in Costa Rica. Despite travel restrictions and new requirement...
Important New Lot Segregation Laws in Costa Rica
All owners of real estate property with a size greater than 900 square meters (almost 10,000 square feet) who want to segregate lots, could find themselves with...
Everything You Need to Know About Property Liens in Costa Rica
In Costa Rica, the main asset for most people is still real estate (Property). Productive farms, raw land suitable for development, lots, houses, buildings, tou...
Helpful Legal Tips for Real Estate Ownership in Costa Rica
When a person acquires property in Costa Rica, he or she usually performs due diligence through different advisors such as lawyers, engineers, surveyors or a ho...
The Truth About Vaccines and Getting Your Residency in Costa Rica
This past spring, there was a lot of anxiety swirling about the ex-pat community in Costa Rica over vaccines in relation to residency in Costa Rica. It all star...
Costa Rica Selected as Mexico & Central America’s Leading Destination 2019.
Costa Rica won the World Travel Award as Mexico & Central America's Leading travel Destination 2019, the award was presented in a ceremony held in the city ...
Learn About Evictions Without a Court Order in Costa Rica
The term eviction can be defined as the action of expelling a person from land, a building, a house, etc., by legal process as well as the action of recovering ...
Everything you Need to know About the Landlord and Tenant act in Costa Rica
In Costa Rica there is a law governing the relationships between the Landlord and Tenant for two specific situations: 1) When renting houses, apartments or c...
How to be Exempted From Luxury Home Tax in Costa Rica
By law #8683 was a created to implement a Luxury Home Tax for all houses in Costa Rica where the construction has a value higher than one hundred million colons...
Why Moving to Jaco Beach Costa Rica is a Good Idea
When foreigners consider moving to Costa Rica or buying a vacation home in this paradise, they many times choose a beach community to enjoy everything that livi...
Why Atenas is a Great Option for Expats in Costa Rica
Costa Rica ranks every year among the top destinations to retire to, and hundreds of foreigners choose to relocate to this country for many reasons other than r...
Legal Tips for Buying and Selling Real Estate in Costa Rica
Although the real estate market is at a low to medium level due to different factors, such as the the current fiscal crisis in CR, the fact is that land remains...
How to Save Money With Municipality Taxes in Costa Rica
Costa Rica has 81 Municipalities plus three District Councils functioning as Municipalities located in the districts of Cobano, Paquera and Lepanto. They usuall...
Everything you Need to Know About Condominium Regulations in Costa Rica
Construction developers all over the country have changed the legal structure of their projects, migrating from the traditional individual property to a condomi...
Everything you Need to Know About Buying Property On the Beach in Costa Rica
In 1977 a Law took effect named Ley Sobre la Zona Marítimo Terrestre or Law about the Maritime Terrestrial Zone, with the purpose of regulating all those areas ...
Legal Advice you Need to Know After You Purchase a Home in Costa Rica
Buying property in Costa Rica involves a prior process called Due Diligence. This involves making a study of the status of the property in the Land Registry, ch...
In the United States, the latest trend in retirement communities is undergoing development in Florid...
Powers of Attorney are a very important tool in Costa Rica and are used daily by individuals and cor...
Although the real estate industry of Costa Rica is not regulated at the government level in terms of...
During the last few days all news media have been reporting that a man named Manuel Alvarez, a perso...
Several years ago, I accepted the challenge to construct a large custom home high on a mountain in o...
Most expats and Ticos alike remember the infamous death of multi-millionaire hedge fund manager John...
If you have your mind made up and have decided to build or buy a house or apartment in Costa Rica, t...
Making the decision to buy real estate is always exciting, especially if you are doing so in a forei...
In 1985, the United Nations issued a declaration, which established certain guidelines that must be ...
Costa Rica is this year’s best destination to retire according to International Living, the country’...
This Monday, January 15 is the deadline for owners of luxury houses in Costa Rica to pay the “Impues...
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world's leading luxury hospitality company, will assume managem...
With a progress of over 80% in the construction of the National Congress and Convention Center, the ...
The developer company, of Ecuadorian origin, chose Costa Rica thanks to its good economic reputation...
Starting a new life in a different country is certainly challenging, initially it may all seem excit...
The Costa Rican Constitutional Court, the country's highest chamber, ruled in support of restriction...
An estimated $1 billion development located between Bagaces and Liberia in the northern Guanacaste p...
Costa Rican and global business and government leaders will meet next week to discuss investment opp...
Santa Ana, San José, Costa Rica, was, less than 20 years ago, very different from the Santa Ana we k...
Relocating to a new country can be both exciting and scary, but usually, more than anything it can b...
According to recent research by the University of Costa Rica (UCR), 80 percent of residents in the ...
