Land for Sale in Costa Rica!

Hello there fellow Permies!

New to the forum here
Me and my family are selling a piece of land that partly belongs to us (we own a percentage of the shares).

It's a gorgeous place with an area of 41.7 hectares (103 acres), an unlimited water supply  (springs that birth water straight out of the mountain) and a very interesting terrain that lends itself to harvesting several different forms of natural energy, by using key-line design, windpower infrastructure, small hydroelectric instalations ... etc!

It's part of a protected zone, which means there is a limited percentage of the area that can be built on, but the land is so big that this percentage is not truly restrictive. And it is right next to a big forest/jungle that is  very rich and bio-diverse.

So we want this place to end up in an ecologically minded person's hands. It is a great location for an Eco-tourism development, Permaculture project or any other type of agro-ecological venture.
Located in the south-west section of the central valley in Costa Rica, in the mountains of Santa Ana. It is conveniently close to the main city areas but beautifully secluded at the same time!

Check out the video below and fall in love with it

 

Area: 41.7 hectares / 103 acres
Price: $3 000 000
Location: Piedades, Santa Ana, Costa Rica

contact us at: watermountainestate@gmail.com

Hello Pablo, Welcome to Permies.
That looks like a beautiful place.
Just to clarify a little. You say that you own shares in the property. Who owns the other shares and what sort of shared use arrangement is there?

Hello Nancy! Thank you

There is basically a legal entity (sort of like an LLC) that owns the property, it is called a "sociedad anónima" or S.A. in Costa Rica.
This entity was created with the sole purpose of being registered as the owner of the land, it's something that people used to do in CR because it had certain advantages over the normal ownership by a physical person.

The natural heirs to the land are a couple of brothers who many years ago went to my father for his legal services. My father was the lawyer who formalized this ownership into the Costa Rican archives, so as a form of payment they gave him a percentage of the shares in the S.A. (legal entity)

The decision to sell it and the price were decided by the entire board of directors of the S.A., which includes those brothers and my mother (as a representative of my whole family since my father passed away).

The only shared used agreements as of this moment concern the rental of space for agriculture. There is a man who farms the land and periodically pays some rent money, and it has been agreed that this income shall be used to pay property taxes and other maintenance expenses.

But neither the brothers nor any member of my family is actually using the land for anything other than that. Mainly because we don't get along with them at all, but everyone agrees that the land must be sold.

So that's the situation.
I deem it really important that it's sold to someone who will take care of nature in there, so a permaculturist would be ideal.

And at the same time it would mean a great deal to me personally because it would enable me to buy some land of my own and start a permaculture project, which I have been dreaming about for some years already.

Thanks for the detailed reply Pablo, I think that helps clarify the situation. Good luck.