Pozos, Santa Ana
Finca 1-2•••••-000

About this zone

Where the sector sits and what it adjoins, the corridor it is reached by, and the physical character of the immediate area: the mix of gated developments and standalone houses, how built-up it is against the outlying towns of the same canton, and the commercial and institutional anchors within a short drive.

The zone is not one place. The districts and sectors within this canton read differently from one another, and they are described separately rather than averaged. A buyer told only the name of the canton has been told very little. Which sector this property sits in, and how it differs from its neighbours, is stated.

What is verifiably there is given with the body or operator named and, where it is recent, the date it opened or came into service. Private hospital campuses, business parks, schools, markets and the day a weekly feria runs are facts of the place and are reported as such.

Water supply and reliability

The body supplying water to this sector is named, whether that is AyA on the national network or a community water association (ASADA) operating under its own statutes. Where an ASADA supplies the sector, its current position on new connections is reported, including any waiting list, since that position is set by its own board and is not published anywhere.

A water availability letter (carta de disponibilidad de agua) is issued for a specific address by the supplying body. Whether one has been issued for this address, or whether the supplying body states one can be, is reported above under the property's own records.

Dry-season pressure reductions reported by the supplying body for this sector are stated with the months given.

Access, roads and travel

Route classification for every road serving this sector, stating which are national routes maintained by MOPT and which are cantonal roads maintained by the municipality. The distinction decides who is responsible for repair and how quickly it tends to happen.

Surface condition on the access roads is described plainly: paved, in repair, unpaved, or seasonal. Where a route is the only access to the sector, that is stated, because a single point of access is a different proposition from two.

Travel times to Juan Santamaría airport, to the nearest hospital, and into San José were measured on weekday mornings and are reported with the times and dates they were measured, not as averages.

Traffic and commute. The congestion windows that apply to this corridor are stated with the measured difference between a midday run and a peak-hour run on the same route. A commute that looks short on a map, or driven at midday, can run materially longer at the hour it would actually be made.

Electricity, internet and services

The supplying electricity utility for this sector is named, since the distributor differs by canton and so do connection procedures and tariffs.

Fixed internet availability is reported by the technology actually available at the street, fibre, cable or fixed wireless, rather than by an operator's marketing coverage map. Where the sector is served only by fixed wireless or satellite, that is stated.

Distance to the nearest public clinic (EBAIS), private hospital, pharmacy, supermarket and school is given, measured from the property rather than from the district centre.

Zoning, land use and municipal rules

Whether this canton has a Plan Regulador in force, what it permits in this sector, and the setback, height and coverage rules that apply here. Where the canton has none in force, that is stated together with the national rules (INVU) that apply in its absence.

Terrain, hazard and environmental constraints

Flood, landslide and seismic fault mapping published for this sector, with the publishing body named and the date of the mapping relied on.

Aquifer protection and recharge-area designations where they apply, since these restrict what can be built and what drainage is permitted irrespective of the Plan Regulador.

Whether an environmental viability study (SETENA) is required for ordinary residential construction here, and the scale of project at which that requirement begins.

Property tax and holding costs

Municipal property tax is levied at the national rate of 0.25% of registered value, so the rate itself is not a local variable. What differs by canton is the declared-value cycle the municipality runs, which sets when an owner is next required to update the declaration.

Municipal service charges applied in this sector, garbage collection, street lighting and any others, are listed as published, with the date of the published schedule relied on.

The threshold for the solidarity tax on high-value homes (impuesto solidario) published by Hacienda for the year is stated. Whether it applies to this property at its registered value, and whether the declaration is current, is reported above under tax standing rather than repeated here.

Current local conditions

Anything live in the sector on the date this report was issued: roadworks and their stated duration, a water or sewer project underway, a zoning or Plan Regulador process in consultation, a municipal works programme, or a development in permitting nearby that would change the immediate surroundings.

Where there is nothing unusual to report, this part says so in those words. It is restated for every engagement rather than left standing from a previous one, because a line that is never refreshed stops meaning anything.

What the public record does not tell you

Items that came up during the work which no public record answers are recorded here as questions rather than left out. In this sample they include the current new-connection position of a community water association, which its board sets and does not publish, and the condition of a cantonal road in the months after the rainy season, which is observable but recorded nowhere.

Naming these is part of the work. A report that lists only what it could confirm leaves the reader to assume the rest was checked.