Costa Rica Real Estate, from Coast to Coast, the Right Way!!!

By Ivo Henfling for the Easy Times

One of our affiliate partners, GoDutch Realty, was recently approved by International Living® and their commercial division Pathfinder, as their representative for the Central Valley of Costa Rica. The next International Living® convention will be in Cancun, Mexico 21-25th February 2012 and we needed to decide for a good sample of properties for sale to promote there.

Since we are a Costa Rica real estate company and not a free tour company, I had to find a way that those clients looking at Costa Rica as their retirement destination would not ask us to be shown all over the Central Valley while looking at 150 properties each. About half the 1,700 properties we have for sale on our Costa Rica real estate website are located in the Central Valley and therefore I decided that around 40 properties in different price ranges, building lots as well as homes for sale and maybe a couple of commercial properties would give us a good choice to present to the International Living clients who registered for the convention.

Of course all these properties would have to be priced very well and be attractive and well maintained. Why even bother to travel to the convention in Cancun with an inventory of overpriced properties? This is when I realized that there are still quite a few owners of Costa Rica real estate are in no hurry to sell. And this is when I realize that the reasons are the same reasons people want to move to Costa Rica, allow me to show you why:

•    Costa Rica is on International Living® top 10 for best places to live or retire to

•    Very low property taxes compared to most other countries

•    No heating nor A/C needed anywhere within the Central Valley

•    Most sellers own their property debt free without any mortgage to pay off

•    We live in a real democracy with many political parties

•    Costa Rica has a very stable economy

•    Costa Rica has NO army and the funds are spent on education

•    A large part of the habitants are bilingual

•    Costa Rica offers the quality lifestyle that is hard to maintain living elsewhere

•    We have the perfect weather with many micro climates to choose from

•    Costa Rica ranks #3 in the world for Environmental Performance by Yale University 2010 (1st in Latin America)

•    Atenas is on AARP top 10 for best places to retire abroad

•    Costa Rica ranks # 29 in the world for Press Freedom by Reporters without Borders 2010 (1st in Latin America)

•    Costa Rica ranks # 31 in the world for Global Peace by Institute for Economics & Peace 2011

•    Costa Rica ranks # 49 in the world for Economic Freedom by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal 2011

•    Costa Rica has the highest score on happy life years by the Happy Planet.

The above shows that really most people don’t want to sell their property in Costa Rica and go back to their home country, why would they? Now you all know the reason why prices are not coming down in Costa Rica, why motivated sellers are scarce and why so many people move here. So if you want to live in Costa Rica and enjoy all these advantages that Costa Rica has to offer, make sure you contact one of our affiliate agents soon.

By Ivo Henfling, a real estate agent in Escazu and Santa Ana. If you plane to move to Costa Rica, feel free to contact us to see any of his Costa Rica real estate listings for sale with pictures and a description.