Ecuador’s Best Coastal Buys
Date: 03/28/2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Cuenca, Ecuador
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Salinas, Ecuador’s largest coastal resort, offers one of the country’s best real estate investment markets with annual appreciation running at 40%. Located at Ecuador’s western-most point, Salinas is sometimes called the “Little Miami Beach” because of the phalanx of white mid- and high-rise condominiums built around a crescent bay.
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Where You Can Still Buy a Beachfront Lot for $40,000
Date: 03/20/2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Cuenca, Ecuador
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I’ve discovered what I believe is the most undervalued and overlooked section of coastline in South America. On the tropical coast of Ecuador you can still buy a beachfront home for $50,000 and live comfortably on $1,000 a month. Some properties in the area—specifically, in the towns of Manta and Salinas—have gone up by as much as 30% and 40% in the past year, and much of the rest of the coast looks poised to join the up-trend. But it’s not too late to get in on the opportunity.
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Coastal Ecuador—where you can still buy a beachfront lot for $40,000…if you act today
Date: 03/01/2008
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Low-cost Art Collecting
Date: 02/25/2008Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
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One of the pleasures that many of Ecuador’s expats discover in their adopted country is art collecting. Even those who were not collectors back home take up the habit, impressed by the quality, variety, and low cost of the arts in this Andean country.
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Date: 01/11/2008Friday, Jan. 11, 2008
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Flights to Ecuador were never too expensive, but now they are becoming even cheaper with competition from a new Ecuador airline flying from Miami.
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Foreigners Haven’t Found This Ecuadorian Valley…Yet
Date: 01/08/2008
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008
Yunguilla, Ecuador
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Yunguilla is a long valley that begins just south of Cuenca and ends near the seaport city of Machala, with a few small towns along the way. The best locations in Yunguilla are just 45 minutes from the capital, Cuenca. The elevation in Yunguilla ranges from about 7,000 feet at the Giron side (closest to Cuenca) down to 4,500 feet at the Santa Isabel side (closest to Machala)--the climate is perfect and warm, with a very short rainy season. The valley is at an east-west orientation, so it gets direct sunshine all day long.
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