WHO BUYS IN COSTA RICAAmericans dominate the second-home market, thanks in part to an abundance of direct flights to Costa Rica from many major cities in the United States. Costa Rica has a reliable national property registry that tracks these records, and includes information on the owners, Mr. Herrera said. (In Costa Rica, all licensed notaries are lawyers, but not all lawyers are notaries.) Property taxes in Costa Rica are generally very low, around 0.25 percent of the registered property value. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyCONTACTEva Murillo, Costa Rica Sotheby’s International Real Estate, 011-506-2253-5333 or 011-506-2505-3093; sothebysrealty.com

Source: New York Times March 08, 2017 14:26 UTC