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The independent, verified authority on Costa Rica's Central Valley property, neighborhoods, and zones. The facts you need to inform your decision.
TITLE · TAXES · HOA HEALTH · PERMITS · NEIGHBORHOOD REALITY · LOCAL KNOW-HOW
A listing tells you what's for sale. An expat forum shares other people's experiences and opinions. Neither one checks the HOA's finances, confirms whether that addition was ever permitted, or tells you what daily life is actually like on that street. We do, independently, before you decide, not after.
Costa Rica has no title insurance. Due diligence is the buyer's only real protection, not a backup to some other safety net. There is also no national MLS and no statutory fiduciary duty, so the verification a US or Canadian buyer expects the system to handle is not handled by the system here. It falls to people. Good agents often do far more than the law asks of them, on their own time and at their own risk. That work should not have to rest on one person's word.
Buyers are routinely advised to seek independent representation. Few genuinely independent options exist. We work only for the buyer. No commission, no referral arrangements, and the same fixed fee whether the purchase goes ahead or you decide against it.
Every statement above is documented, with the statutes and government sources, in our free guide to buying and selling property in Costa Rica.
A thirty-year Central Valley broker has said he's "hardly ever seen a buyer protected" against an underfunded HOA. Roughly four in five properties on the market here are condos or gated-community units carrying that exact risk.
Not a law firm, not a lender, not a concierge service. We don't take a commission or hold your funds.
Escazú, Santa Ana, Lindora, San Rafael, Belén, Alajuela, Atenas, Ciudad Colón, and surrounding areas.
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Every record is pulled fresh for your file and every finding is dated. Nothing is recycled, and nothing is quoted without the day it was checked.
Every section, every table, the full evidence log, verified sources, not assumptions.
Santa Ana vs. Atenas, side by side, before choosing a neighborhood.
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Yes, always. We complement a real estate attorney, we don't replace one. If you don't have a Costa Rica real estate attorney yet, we can refer one.
Every record is pulled at the time we do your work. Nothing is retrieved from a stored database or reused from an earlier engagement. Each section of your report carries the date that source was checked, so you know exactly what period the finding covers. One honest limit: registries reflect what has been filed and processed, so a document filed in the days before we check may not appear yet. We state what the record said on the date we read it, which is the only thing anyone can verify.
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Escazú, Santa Ana, Lindora, San Rafael, Belén, Alajuela, Atenas, and Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica's Central Valley.
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Our guide to buying and selling property in Costa Rica walks through the whole transaction: who is involved, the steps in order, what it costs, what is taxed and who pays, how title can be held, and where the law limits what a foreigner can own. It is free, written from the statutes, and every source is listed.
No. This is an independent verification based on the sources listed in the delivery manifest, not a legal opinion, and it doesn't guarantee the outcome of any transaction.
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