The largest share of transactions was made up by the sales of houses (42%, 2,266 sales), followed by apartments (39%, 2,096 sales) and urbanized condominium lots (20%, 1,067 sales). Overall, the ...

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Where In a gated community on the coast of Costa Rica’s Puntarenas province ... Many of the furnishings and artworks are included in the sale. A guest house has an additional three bedrooms.

My Tico friend Tomas has decided that Costa Rica has enough residents ... “Up north, this would cost maybe fifteen hundred dollars,” he intones. “Down here, it’s for sale for 3 million colones, almost ...