Land Investment

Land Investment has historically been the privilege of large companies, rich farmers or very wealthy individuals. The last 30-50 years have changed the dynamics of Land Investment. Through improved communications and better knowledge about Land Investment and most of all the spreading of wealth, Land Investment became possible for a large group of people. By now, almost everybody has heard the phrase: ‘buy land, they’re not making any more of it’ and most people know someone who did Land Investment and was happy with it. Land Investment can be a profitable business if the proper land is choosen. Land Investment is normally considered a long term investment and with land prices on the rise in many parts of the world, Land Investment is said to be one of the safest and smartest ways of investing.

Land Investment in Costa Rica

Although Land Investment may not produce instant gratification like a car or home purchase does, it can be really lucrative in the long run to do Land Investment. And this is even more true when Land Investment is done in Costa Rica, since Costa Rica is welcoming foreigners very much to do Land Investment in its country. As a matter of fact several banks have special departments to help foriegners with their Land Investment.

Costa Rica approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and transformed the last ten years from its long-time dependence on coffee, bananas and cattle raising to one centered on microprocessor production, high-tech telecommunications services, tourism and the Realestate industry (including Land Investment by foreigners). The government promotes with its investment-friendly climate foreign Land Investment very much. This resulted not only in 100,000 US-citizens doing their Land Investment in Costa Rica, also industry-leaders like for example Abbot Laboratories, Acer, Continental Airways, General Electric, Hewlet Packard, Intel Corporation and Microsoft did Land Investment and build their facilities in the country.

Another reason to highlight Land Investment in Costa Rica is the modernization of Costa Rica´s infrastructure, and telecommunications. These days a high-speed internet-connection is common in Costa Rica and the network of highways improved dramatically with the completion of the ´Costa Nera Highway´. Costa Rica became a modern nation and will attrackt many more investors.

The recently opened Costa Nera Highway

Costa Rica is relatively close to the US. Depending on the US-city you consider, its a 3 till 5 hour flight. And six major airlines offer these flights daily, resulting in more then 400 weekly flights from the US to Costa Rica.

This fact combined with the fact that there is a large group (aproximately 70 million people) of near future pensioners (so called baby-boomers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer) in the US, makes it easy to see that there is and will be a demand for lots and houses in Costa Rica from a fast increasing number of US-citizens. Land Investment is in Costa Rica a sure investment US-citizens are and will also in the future, be looking for lands and houses in Costa Rica, and their demand will increase, as their number will raise dramatically in the next years.

Costarican Land Investment is and will remain one of the safest and most attractive investments in the domain of foreign real estate. You are well advised to complete your investment-portfolio with Costarican Land Investment.

Other reasons to invest in Costa Rica:

Costa Rica has been ranked by The World Bank and by The Economic Intelligence Unit of The Economist, as the the politically and economically most stable country in Central America. In other words; Land Investment in Costa Rica is safe Costa Rica has very low property taxes and no tax on capital gains from abroad. This means that Land Investment in Costa Rica comes with almost no extra costst.

Costa Rica has a very secure and well functioning National land register (in fact it functiones better then in most western countries). Another attribute to the safety of your Land Investment.

In Costa Rica, private property is inviolable and guaranteed by the constitution. Costa Rica is a top tourist destination (more than 400 weekly flights), located a few hours away from the USA with daily flights serving all major U.S. cities.

Costa Rica has low prices when it comes to building a home and local financing is available for foreign investors. Costa Rica has a well developed and modern banking system, banking is safe and reliable.