Completely Remodeled Lake View Home just $154k

Completely renovated 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 1800 sq. ft. home on 1,200m2 lot (quarter of an acre plus) in a great location just 200m from the centre of St. Luis (Lake Arenal) for just $154,000.

What I like about this offer is that there is owner finance available with just $50k down, it has a great location, with a blank slate as your canvas and the adjacent lots are available if you wanted more space.

• Completely remodeled 
• 1,785 sq. ft. /166 m2 inside living area 
• High ceilings, 7 skylights, recessed lighting, 4 ceiling fans, fireplace 
• Concrete and metal construction 
• Guanacaste wood custom kitchen cabinets. 
• New tile floors. 
• Large yard, 13,000 sq ft lot (1/4+ acre) 1,220m2 
• Adjacent 12,500 sq ft and 5,000 sq ft lots also available. 
• Volcano and Lake views 
• Many fruit trees, flowering plants, landscaping. 
• Front security wall 
• Private parking 
• Quiet and Serene location, only 200 meters from town center.

• 200 meters to San Luis Restaurants and Mini Super Markets 
• 2 KM from Puerto San Luis Marina and Lake Beach Park 
• 2 minutes to road around the lake and 1.25 hours from hotsprings 
• 25 minutes to Pan American highway on smooth asphalt roadways 
• 6 KM to Tilaran (the major city at Lake Arenal) with several super markets, banks, medical clinics, pharmacies, Restaurants, Hardware stores, electronic and appliance stores, etc. 

Click here to see the location

The owner is open to offers and wants to sell quickly.

If you would like to find out more about this property, the Finance available, or other opportunities** in the Arenal Area, just e mail me here or give me a call on USA +1-202-697-9384

**I also have a 2 Bed 2 Bathroom new build 1,000 sq. ft. home on a 600m2 lot with lake views for $119k (and there is builder finance available).

Costa Rica In 5 Mins (in HD)

Tamarindo Lifestyle

We have excellent colleagues in the Tamarindo and would be delighted to introduce you to them.

Just email us on info@costaricainvest.ie or give us a call on USA +1-202-697-9284 or Europe +353-1-272-4184 and we'll connect you,

Ajuste Perfecto - for Your "Perfect Fit" Property in Costa Rica

Lots of great value opportunties throughout Costa Rica

There are lots of great homes and development opportunities throughout Costa Rica. Just click on the links below to see just some of them.

	Grecia and Central Valley
	Arenal
	Live Longer in the Costa Rica Blue Zones in these Great Value Homes
	Developers Opportunities in Costa Rica
	Tamarindo, Guanacaste
	Atenas

Thai Chilli Peppers

Thai hot chilli peppers have been test planted and grown successfully in Naturewalk. Naturewalk will soon plant acres of chilli peppers for export.

Below you can see some of the hot chilli peppers grown in Naturewalk:

Naturewalk is a fully masterplanned community in the Central Pacific region. Located in the hills it is about 10 miles from the ocean. Owners in Naturewalk can own a beautiful lot on which they can have their home and better still they can have fully managed crops growing on their land giving an income.

To find out more about Naturewalk call USA +1-202-697-9284 or Europe +353-1-272-4184 or e mail info@costaricainvest.ie

Read about Naturewalk in the New York Times here.

Ajuste Perfecto to launch in 2016

Ajuste Perfecto, Costa Rica's first full service MLS (Multiple Listing Service for Real Estate) will launch in the first quarter of 2016.

You can read more and register for priority updates here

16.39 Acre Estate Development Lot Vistas De Chirripo for just $125,000

• Vistas De Chirripo Country Estates is a residential development of beautiful properties approximately 2 km past Santa Elena which is about 11 km east of San Isidro De EL General in the province of Perez Zeledon in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica. This is a perfect lifestyle location for owners and residents and Vistas de Chirripo was designed to exist in harmony with its natural surroundings and nearby communities. Located at an elevation of 1,100 meters the Estate has a comfortable climate year round (daily high temperature 77 to 81 degrees farenheit). The city of San Isidro, with a population of 80,000, is just a 20 minutes drive away. A number of homes have already been constructed within Vistas De Chirripo.


• Lot 8 is 66,371 square meters (16.39acres) and the lot is fully serviced with water, electricity, driveway access to the lot which is secured by a solid gate at the entrance to property. Cell phone and internet tower are near by for property owner use.


• The lot has two large leveled plantels ready for immediate construction. The lower level on lot has large leveled area suitable for a guest house, large swimming pool and a garden/orchard if desired. Whilst the upper level has large leveled area for a home with attached garage, and additional parking space.


• Lot 8 has the added advantage of being adjacent to lot 7, which is a common area of 34.78 acres for use by all lot owners. This common area has maintained trails that follow the Rio Penas Blancas river. This river also flows in front of the lot 8, providing the calming tranquility of river views


• The current owner had planned to build on the property, but ill health has forced an unexpected change of plans. The owner will consider a trade for a property with a "ready to move into" home

PRICE US$125,000

List your property for Sale with Costa Rica Invest

We have been regularly contacted by property sellers in Costa Rica asking to list their property with us because of our multinational marketing presence.

We were often unable to assist because of the properties were not geographically convenient to our general real estate offices and we could not adequately represent them.

 

However, we have decided to try to service property sellers (and our clients) better by offering a "for sale by owner" service advertising third party properties directly to our databases.

As a launch offer a basic listing costs just US$29.99 per month. To subscribe to our basic listing services for just $29.99 per month, please click on the below:

https://costaricainvest.infusionsoft.com/app/page/basic-listing

 What's Included? - listing includes:

1. Listing on our Website
2. Listing on our Members Only Website
3. An entry in our Blog 
4. Listing on our Pinterest
5. Listing on our Facebook 
6. Listing on our Google Plus 
7. Highlighted on Twitter
8. Inclusion in the general listings e mails sent to the general database and the Costa Rica Insights by Costa Rica Invest databases.

Title and Property Ownership in Costa Rica

The Costa Rica constitution allows non Costa Ricans have all the same land and property ownership rights as a Costa Rica citizen (the only exception to this are 4 and 5 below). Non Costa Ricans can own and hold land in their own name without the need for local partners or complex corporate structures.

This separates Costa Rica from many of its neighbouring countries where local partners and complex legal and corporate structures are required to own land and real estate.

Broadly land is divided into the five types below:

1. Titled Lands

The vast majority of land in Costa Rica is titled. There is a National Public registry website where you or your lawyer can check the title of property and ensure it is clean and without mortgages or liens.

2. Fifty-Meter Zone

From the high tide mark to 50 meters inland is public property in Costa Rica. This land cannot be developed and no permanent structure can be placed on the land. However, this land can be landscaped and some temporary structures are permitted.

This fifty meter zone was implemented to preserve the beaches and ocean-front as public property for the benefit of all.

3. Titled ocean front property to the 50 meter line.

In the mid 1970's owners of ocean front land in Costa Rica were asked to register their land with the local and national public registry offices. Those owners that registered their land got full title for their land to the fifty meter line (mentioned at 1 above). Only 15% of ocean front land on the coast line was registered at this time and this is prime ocean front property.

4. Municipal lease land - 150-meter zone.

The majority of ocean front land from the 50 meter zone to a distance 150 meters further inwards is owned by the local municipality.

This land can only be leased from the municipality in the form of a concession. Non Costa Rican's may only lease this land in partnership with a local Costa Rica partner, who must own more than 50% of the company entering into the lease agreement. It is not allowed for non Costa Ricans to lease this land personally.

This concession property usually has restrictions on development and zoning of the land.

This 50m zone exists to preserve public access to the public beaches.

5. Frontiers

Only Costa Rican citizens can purchase land within two kilometres of the national frontiers or borders.

This is a very quick introduction to title and property ownership in Costa Rica and when buying real estate or land in Costa Rica it is important to have the title checked by your legal representative

Planting Pineapple

Pineapple planting continues in Naturewalk 3:

Costa Rica

Hiding in the tiquisque

The tiquisque in Permalife, Naturewalk 3 is now so high you can successfully hide in it!

Webinar "Costa Rica - A Good Investment Opportunity?"

Fly, Buy and Save

Fly & Buy Rebate

Worth up to US$2,000

How does it work?

• Sign a buyers representation agreeement in advance of travelling to Costa Rica and



• Travel to Costa Rica before the end of Feburary 2013 and



• If you contract to buy any of our listings* from any of our Costa Rica offices** whilst you are in Costa Rica we will give you a rebate of 1% of the purchase price up to a maximum of US$2,000 at closing

Why sign a buyers representation agreement?

• Click here to see nine good reasons to have a buyers representation agreement in place before you visit Costa Rica

Where can I see a copy of the buyers representation agreement?

* we mean any of our listings, that includes exclusive listings, non exclusive listings and co-broker listings - so you can pick from hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of listings.
**this includes all of our Quepos Office listings, San Jose Office Listings and all NatureWalk developments 

An Insiders view

We have asked some of our sales consultants to contribute to our blog and below is John Douglas's first contribution - if you would like to contact John you can e mail him on johnd@costaricainvest.ie or alternately give him a call on + 353 1 272 4184

Ethically Responsible Investments

Fed up with the traditional boring investments in failing economies, have you ever considered investing in a valuable commodity that’s actually growing on your land.

This concept new to the Irish market is already very popular in other parts of Europe & the United States; we deal in Land (Freehold) with 10-12yr old Teak trees already growing on it.

The cost of the investment is €6.45 per sqm our plots range in size from 1000sqm to 10,000sqm at these prices the plots are being snapped up quite quickly, and 70% of this current project has already been sold.·

• There is no capital gains tax to pay on land in Costa Rica.
• Land in Costa Rica is currently increasing in price by more than 20% pa.
• Teak typically grows and creates 12m³-20m³ usable teak per hectare per annum and therefore yields 240m³-400m³ usable teak per ha at 20 years.
• Teak currently sells @ $650 per cubic meter and has increased by 8,5% per annum over the last 10 years.
• Costa Rica is stable economically and politically, the economy has been growing at 7% pa.
• This investment conservatively estimates a 33% pa return over the 8-10 yr investment cycle.
• You own the land you buy as it’s freehold
• Your land and trees are managed in Costa Rica at very little cost to you.
• You don’t have to travel, as the Notary comes to Ireland to register your plot in your name.
• The investment is in Euro`s, however the return on the Teak is in US$ as this commodity is traded in Dollars and the exit strategy for the Land has exposure to Dollars as one of the target markets is the USA.

Just sit back and watch your money “Grow”.Timber is a solid commodity with steady demand that does well during stock market declines because it is not correlated to the market. Its returns reliably outperform the market, and its value increases over time, even without investor input. The land acts like principal, and the timber acts like a perpetual dividend. In the past 20 years, the timber index has produced average annual returns of more than 15 percent. Timber brings a stabilizing influence to a portfolio and indeed log prices have historically increased around 2 percent in real terms over and above inflation so this means that timber investments can protect investors' capital as well as provide significant returns on investment.

These teak trees are grown on managed plantations “helping to sustain the Worlds rain forests” Ethically Responsible, Environmentally Friendly investmentCosta Rica Invest, Block B. Office, Seaview Court, Strand Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.T: +353 1 272 4184 F: +353 1 272 3013 E: johnd@costaricainvest.ie W: http://www.costaricainvest.ie/

Why invest in Costa Rica?

Costa Rica is the oldest democracy in Central and South America with the Pacific Ocean to the West and Caribbean to the East.

Costa Rica shares Central America with Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize

It was the first country in the world to constitutionally abolish it’s army and is an American protectorate.

The economy has been growing at 7% pa, with major inward investment via big multinationals such as Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Abbott Laboratories, Merck Sharpe and Dome

The population is 4 million, of which 96% are literate – one of the highest literacy rates in the world, with more teachers than police

5% of the worlds biodiversity can be found in Costa Rica (i.e. 1 in 20 of all living organisms), and NASA described it as having the best climate in the world – with average temperatures of 25-30 degrees

The country is ranked 5th – 2008 Environmental Performance Index with over 25% of Costa Rica declared a protected nature reserve

There is a $1.9 billion pa tourism industry, with many American celebrities choosing Costa Rica for their pad – such as Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Willis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lisa Marie Presley.

Land prices in Costa Rica have shot up in recent years driven by

• massive demand from mainly American holiday makers looking for their little piece of paradise, in this beautiful stable country
• foregin inward investment from multinational companies

In the best areas land has doubled year on year over the past 5 years. Of course this land price has started from very low price levels, but these increases will not be sustained forever, so invest now and benefit from the land price increases while you can!!

Read a BBC News profile of Costa Rica here.

Why might teak be a good investment?

To see why teak might be a good investment have a look here at the Allasso Group website. Whilst they focus on teak plantations in Belize, their report gives a good background. Then have a look at their projections.

Now combine a teak investment with a development land investment in the "hottest real estate market on the face of the planet" (CNBC Europe) and ask yourself what you get?

To see more have a look at our website www.costaricainvest.ie or just e mail us or give us a call on +353 1 272 4184.

Can land investment be sexy?

Costa Rica is sexy and sustainable, its official! Not only home to one of the world sexiest beaches (Playa Tamarindo) according to Conde Nast's Concierge.com, Costa Rica recently ranked fifth behind Norway, Sweden and Switzerland in a ranking of environmental excellence. Being one of the top ten nations in The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) conducted by US universities Yale and Columbia which surveys 149 countries around the world is a great achievement for Costa Rica. Eco-friendly investment is a growing trend and a reason why projects such as the Pacifico do Dos estate, should prove to be a shrewd overseas property move in the years to come.

The pristine paradise of Costa Rica has it all, white beaches, an endless parade of wildlife, fine diving, good food and with low property prices, it has been attracting US baby boomers in search of la pura vida, a relaxed, comfortable, and affordable lifestyle in a beautiful and welcoming country. The migration of US retirees has sparked a boom in second home resort properties and

Irish-based Costa Rica Invest has recently launched the Di Pacifico Dos estate, on the back of the sold out Finca Cobano, whose 34 building lots have been snapped by a range of UK and international investors. Situated in Costa Rica's Mid Pacific region, the estate di Pacifico Dos is located to the north of the Puntarenas province and sits just above Puntarenas city roughly translated as ‘Sandy Point' which overlooks the Gulf of Nicoya. The 'estate di Pacifico Dos concept will offer investors the best of both worlds - a dual functioning real estate investment in an idyllic location, in the country which practically invented ecotourism.Surrounded by islands, a stone throw from the beautiful beaches of the Pacific Ocean and close to unspoilt nature reserves, Di Pacifico Dos is located only 94 km from Costa Rica's new international airport hub, Liberia and 1 hours drive from the capital San José.Finca di Pacifico Dos offers investors the opportunity to purchase building plots in the estate di Pacifico Dos and benefit not only from the increases in land but also the hardwood teak.

Finca di Pacifico Dos is only a few kilometres away from the Pacific Ocean and the building plots vary in size from approximately 1,000 to 10,000 square meters and are planted with 11, 14 or 18 year old Teak, Melina or Pochote trees with either sea views, river views or bordering the Pan American highway.Plot prices start from € 6,45 M2 and the 10,000 square meters plots are ideally suited for re-division into smaller building plots, after the final felling of the trees (in approximately 6 years).

The price of your building plot includes central water source and transfer tax, topographical work, registering in the Land Registry, placement of border markers, supply of electricity to the main entrance, renovation of existing roads and construction of new roads where needed.An investment in estate di Pacifico Dos, gives you ownership of a beautifully located plot of land with good growth potential because the prices of real estate in Costa Rica are considerably lower.

As foreigners are allowed to own land directly, rather than through the bank-trust leases required in some Mexican property deals, you rest assured that no-one is going to expropriate your property, land will be transferred to you by notary deed.For the past decade or so, Costa Rica has been on the "must do" list for travellers who want to experience a guilt-free (but still occasionally luxurious) vacation. It has become home to a growing number of eco-resorts and is widely touted as an ideal early sun destination as the perfect spring getaway.

Costa Rica's enjoys added appeal as a hurricane-free country due its situation north of the equator ensuring your investment remains low risk.Costa Rica has the advantages of an active tourism board and this year surpassed three times the world average in tourism growth, according to a June index released by the World Tourism Organization (WTO). Costa Rica has a reputation as peaceful and environmentally friendly nation and also has the longest tradition of democracy in Latin America. In the last few years, it has been transformed by a collection of hotels and real estate developments aimed at America's affluent baby boomers and now American buyers as well as their European counterparts are being drawn to the cheap prices for oceanfront real estate on previously undeveloped land.

According to La Nacion, the estate di Pacifico Dos is located in one of 3 regions where the real estate prices are showing the greatest increases. In 2007 the value of property in this area increased by 40%!

For more details on estate di Pacifico Dos click here to request a brochure or call +353 1 272 4184 to speak to a project advisor.

Welcome

Welcome to the Costa Rica Invest blog.

We specialise in environmentaly friendly, ethically responsible, high yield investments and our largest current project is Di Pacifico Dos. A teak plantation in Costa Rica which is zoned for future development.

Our blog is designed to keep our clients, friends and other interested parties up to date on relevant information on Costa Rica and di Pacifico Dos.

About Di Pacifico Dos:

Di Pacifico Dos is located close to the Gulf of Nicoya about 5 miles from the Pacific Ocean, on the Pan American highway. The planation is planted with Teak, Pochote and Melina trees. The teak and Melina will be ready for harvesting in 6-8 years and the Pochote will be ready for harvestnig in 4 years. The 400ha planatation has been divided into 710 lots ranging in size from 1000m2 upwards. Each plot is accessible by road and a central water and electricity source is being installed. Zoned for development our investors have a whole range of plans for their land - the majority plan to harvest the teak and then sell the land onwards, some have plans to develop villas on their plots and sell the villas on, some plan to build a villa for their personal use and one has plans for a major "eco-hotel".

About Teak

Teak is a tropical hardwood and is traded as a commodity worldwide. Currently less than 3% of the world's teak comes from plantation sources with the balance coming from jungles. Teak has increased in price at an average of 8.5% per year over the past 10 years and world demand for teak is increasing largely driven by demand from India and China. So supply of teak is falling driven largely by world opinion in regard to our natural jungles whilst demand is increasing and of course this leads to further price increases.

About Costa Rica

Costa Rica is the oldest democracy in central and South America. The army was constitutionally abolished 50 years ago and it is an American protectorate. 5% of the world's biodivirsity lives in Costa Rica and NASA describes it as having the best climate in the world. It is politically stable with a growing ecomony. With one of the highest literacy rates in the world it has attracted significant inward investment from many of the world's largest mulitnational companies (Intel, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Proctor and Gambel). Because of the safety and stability of the country combined with its incredible biodiversity, beautiul beaches and accessibility from the USA, large numbers of US and Canadian citizens are purchasing holiday homes in Costa Rica. Property prices in the area of Di Pacifico Dos increased by 40% last year alone.

To see more about what we do just log on to our website www.costaricainvest.ie or to www.costaricainvest.co.uk