Where to Find the Best-value Lots in Costa Rica
Date: 05/08/2008
Friday, May 9, 2008
Southern Costa Rica
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Some of the most amazing scenery in Costa Rica is in the southern zone, in an area that runs south of Quepos to the border with Panama. Landscapes here are dramatic—panoramic ocean views…lush tropical rainforest…and sheer jungle-clad slopes, rising sharply away from pristine stretches of sandy beaches.
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Date: 12/26/2007
Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007
Osa Province, Costa Rica
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It is expected that Costa Rica’s newest international airport, scheduled to open in 2010, will be the key to unlocking the tourism and development potential of this country’s southern coast. Right now, the area where the new airport is planned is accessible to mass tourism only via a four-to-five-hour drive from San Jose.
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Spotlight on...Costa Rica
Date: 11/30/2007
Costa Rica is not a “new” destination for International Living. Back in the early 1980s, we regularly encouraged readers to put Costa Rica at the top of their list of overseas retirement havens. Readers who took our advice reaped big rewards. Costa Rica caught on…and became the No. 1 destination among foreign retirees and investors looking for land buys with big upsides. The upsides were realized. Through the 1990s, the market boomed. Prices for beachfront property along the Pacific coast increased 6-, 8-, 10-fold, and more… But as property prices rose in Costa Rica, we (and our readers) began looking elsewhere.
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