The first question almost every buyer asks me, usually before they’ve told me their name, is some version of: “Am I even allowed to own this?” Twenty years

A client once shook my hand on a lot outside Tamarindo, thrilled with the price he’d talked the seller down to, and then went a shade pale when I mentioned

Here’s a number that makes North Americans blink: the annual property tax in Costa Rica is 0.25% of your property’s registered value. A quarter of one perc

I once watched a lovely couple nearly buy a hillside lot on the Nicoya Peninsula that came with a surprise. An easement gave the neighbor behind them the l