Estimated Reading Time: 6 Minutes As a foreign buyer, you should know a few important facts about Costa Rica Real Estate. Many foreign buyers assume that real estate here functions the same as it does in their home country. Wrong! Although Costa Rica offers an incredible variety of places to retire or make your home, […]
Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes There is nothing worse than surfing on Google looking for property listings and not finding anything you like. Or they’re not in your budget. Probably, the property listings you find are also in the wrong location. Some don’t know where to get started, because they have never been to Costa […]
There are several great benefits for listing a property for sale on the #1 MLS in Costa Rica. When looking to sell, property owners often don’t know where to advertise their property for sale. Of course, you can try listing on For Sale by Owner, or Craigslist. Nonetheless, buyers will find very few options in […]
Quite often buyers from out of the country ask why real estate developments in Costa Rica are not listed on the MLS. If you are interested in buying a condo or a house in any of the real estate developments, they are really hard to find. You have to be on the ground (in Costa […]
Some say a Costa Rica real estate MLS will be a monopoly. In my opinion, it will be far from that. Is the creation of a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) be a smart decision or not? Let’s start with this statement: Costa Rica real estate professionals should put buyers and sellers first! Once again a […]
What amount of time does it take to sell my luxury home in Costa Rica, is usually the first question a seller asks. Of course, once you have decided to list your luxury home for sale, you would like to move on. And, as soon as you can! There are quite a few factors that […]
Quite often, we get a request from a realtor in another country to list a property on our MLS. Just last week, a realtor from Carson City emailed me “I am a listing agent in Nevada (USA) who is working with a seller in Costa Rica. The seller would like me to list the property on […]
Do you have any idea who might be hiding behind all those Costa Rica real estate websites you find all over Google? Don’t you want to know what your realtor in Costa Rica looks like? Have you ever asked yourself Who is Who? Don’t you want to know who you’re dealing with? Why don’t real estate […]
Are you reading this on your cell phone or iPad? If you are, you will see that our MLS is fully mobile friendly. You will still be able to use your desktop or laptop computer to look for real estate and read our articles. Google has been warning website owners that the growing percentage of mobile […]
Is it easy to get comps in Costa Rica? Visitors to our website often ask, “What is the price per acre on property in Costa Rica?” Or, better yet, “Will you send me some comps on that house so I can see what similar homes are going for in the South Pacific?” Yea, right. The […]