If your dream is to live in a tropical paradise, in a secure environment, you are on the right track in thinking of investing in Costa Rica

One area to consider is Playa Tambor on the Southern Nicoya Peninsula. Playa Tambor is peaceful, has incredible ambiance and is just beginning to go upscale so it has all the conveniences yet still retains her natural beauty. Last year alone property values rose over 25% with no end in sight and by all indications real estate in Playa Tambor this coming summer season will be in high demand. If you are thinking about investing in property in Costa Rica for retirement or building your vacation home, Playa Tambor could very well be an area that interests you.

Leading the way for the past ten years in real estate development in the Tambor area, Century 21 Tambor Hills real estate located in the Los Delfines Golf and Country Club is a full service real estate Broker offering buyer and seller services along with topographical design and construction that will satisfy your needs and guarantee success in whatever real estate purchase and development endeavor you may choose.

Playa Tambor, a small Costa Rican fishing village with one of the best micro-climates of all the beach areas throughout the country is situated in a valley along the center of a horseshoe shaped bay called “Bahia Ballena” which is 8 miles around, has more than 5 miles of sand beach to explore and is the central focal point with water sports and fishing being the main theme.

Tambor is far enough away from the City of San Jose to keep things quiet. By land Playa Tambor is 6 hours travel time away from San Jose to include an hour and a half ferry ride that crosses the upper Gulf of Nicoya which keeps weekend traffic away.
Playa Tambor has the only airstrip on the Southern Nicoya Peninsula providing daily 20 minute scheduled flights to the capital San Jose for around $70 one way depending on the season making Playa Tambor easily accessible.

International travelers have been visiting the Tambor area for years and one of the reasons Playa Tambor has not been developed until now has been the lack of services, namely being hotel rooms. But this is about to change with various new residential and condominium projects now underway and others planned for the immediate future.

Properties in Tambor are now being sought out by people from around the world that have seen and want many of the same things out of life that real estate in Playa Tambor is offering including lower prices and high appreciating values along with a quiet, wholesome, safe and clean environment.

Playa Tambor has many new residential developments in Costa Rica now underway and if you like living up high, “Tambor Hills Residential” that is nestled in the mountains overlooking beautiful “Bahia Ballena” is now entering its second stage of development offering sizeable lots for sale with a cool, steady ocean breeze and breathtaking Mountain, Valley and Ocean views.

Along with paving the mountain road that leads to this lovely development, new lots are currently being cut that have a minimum of 5,000 square meters with water, electric and telephone lines included. High speed wireless internet (2MB) is also available in all of Playa Tambor and this project is only 10 minutes away from the Airstrip and tropical beaches here in Tambor allowing for privacy while being close to all the action.

Another new Residential Condominium project that shares this mountain and now in pre sales is “Whale Bay Crest”. Slated to become the most luxurious residential condominium on the entire Southern Nicoya Peninsula with appointments for the most discerning, “Whale Bay Crest” will have large living areas coupled with the same cool ocean breeze and extraordinary beautiful Mountain, Valley and Ocean Views.

While creating a stir in the real estate market in Playa Tambor, Whale Bay Condominiums and Tambor Hills Residential are leading the way with luxury and style along with cool mountain top living here in Tambor.

Real estate in Costa Rica especially in Playa Tambor is something to behold and although it is pretty quiet on the whole, the beautiful mountains, Gulf of Nicoya and the Pacific Ocean is at your doorstep creating a beautiful backdrop from just about every vantage point there is.

Celebrities in Costa Rica

“The bad roads here have their pros and cons” says Vice President Eduardo Villafranca of Punta Islita. For suppliers it is a disaster of course, but the hotel management does know how to appreciate the cheese-with-the-holes in this remote part of the country. “Our guests like to be isolated”, says Villafranca with a smile. “We have no problems with space and we have no problems with security”. No wonder Punta Islita is a huge attraction for international celebrities. Some celebrities on our guest list are Catherine Deneuve, Enrique Iglesias, David Hasselhof and Madonna.
Guests who choose Punta Islita are also contributing to the welfare of the local people. The hotel has won a series of awards with its responsible entrepreneurship. Their philosophy is that a hotel cannot function properly if its surrounding environment is not doing well also. So, every year six percent of the profit goes to development projects in the five surrounding villages through a foundation. This way hundreds of thousands of dollars together with the money raised by the “partners” of the hotel are additionally invested in education, infrastructure and cultural projects.

Buy a second home in Costa Rica?

The largest real estate broker in the U.S., Century 21 is also a market leader in Costa Rica. For Americans, customer protection comes first, so this also offers European buyers the required security such as guarantees and safe deposits when making down payments. Costa Rica Real estate buyers in Costa Rica receive their land in their own names. Costa Rica's cadastre is a very well functioning entity. The tax system’s top rate of 30% is very favourable. Transfer tax is between 3.25% and 4.85% of the registered value of the real estate in Costa Rica. This value that is "registered" in the cadastre is about 20% of the real commercial value. A pleasant plus point for people wishing to live their permanently: Costa Rica as well as Switzerland, applied bank secrecy. Revenue and capital of subjects are not divulged to other countries.
For further information: http://www.tamborhills.com/ Century 21 Tambor Hills on the Nicoya Peninsula.
Or http://www.c21costaricainfo.com/ Century 21 Paradise real estate for Real Estate in Costa Rica in San Jose / Esczazu).

Travel tip for visitors from Europe to Costa Rica

Martinair has almost daily connections with Costa Rica. There are alternate stops in Miami or Orlando. Flying time from Holland is twelve hours. For a little more, the Star class offers the comfort of business class. For further information: http://www.martinair.nl/ The locations described in this report can be booked via Emotions, specialized in exclusive travelling. More information: http://www.emotions.nl/ Telephone: 020-398.93.93

Costa Rica has the hottest real estate market in the World.

Costa Rica and specifically the Nicoya Peninsula is booming. President Jeff Homberger of the NAR (National Association of Realtors) you could call it the American NVM, recently declared on CNN that Costa Rica is at the moment the "hottest real estate market in the world". Americans think that Florida, Mexico and Hawaii have to become too expensive to buy their second home and are flocking to friendly, stable and still dirt cheap Costa Rica. Also, the largest real estate organization in the world the American Century21 (7.200 real estate offices in more than 38 countries) is pleasantly amazed by what they see happening in Costa Rica. Very seldom have prices in a region risen so strongly.

Successful

Five years ago Century21 asked the Dutch businessman Carlo Köhlinger to set up the sale of real estate in Costa Rica in the most beautiful spots in Nicoya. The Americans set their sights on Köhlinger because he had already managed to carry out a number of extremely successful real estate projects in Costa Rica, Nicoya. Köhlinger can hardly keep up with the requests for land and villas. Coastal areas and bays such as Playa Tambor, Montezuma, Mal País and Costa de Oro are developing at an incredible pace with wealthy and famous Americans standing in line to invest. Even the sober Dutchman himself is a bit baffled by the booming real estate business in this part of Costa Rica.
We met up with Köhlinger in the 5-star resort of the Spanish billionaire family Barceló, owners of the equally named hotel chain (175 hotels in Europe and North and South America). Köhlinger is a house guest of Guillermo Barceló who also has a home in Tambor. “You will probably not believe this”, says the dry Dutchman. “But the prices of land have risen on an average of fifty percent per year recently with apartments, villas and mansions increasing their value by approximately twenty percent every year, and the end is still not in sight. This is really unbelievable”.

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“Prices here are relatively low, especially in relation to the previous top destinations like Mexico and Hawaii” says Köhlinger. In Mexico the price per square meter rose from 150 dollars to 1,700 dollars in ten years’ time. Consequently with increasing demand, Real Estate prices in Costa Rica have also risen, but with the following difference: Costa Rica is only just beginning! Köhlinger has no words for it. “In 2002 a client bought a property in the vicinity of Tambor for 1.9 million dollars and sold the same land last year for 15 million dollars! I can show you the documents if you don’t believe it. In 2002 another client bought eight hectares next to Tango Mar beach resort for 150.000 dollars. He now sold those same eight hectares to which nothing at all had been done for 1.5 million dollars!” Another example can be seen in the Tambor Hills development project: 7.000 square meter lots brought in 40.000 dollars in 2004, but now they are being sold for over 175.000 dollars!

Christopher Columbus named Costa Rica the “rich coast”. For many Americans and some Europeans, this name has proven to be literally true. No matter how high the dollar gain is in real estate in Costa Rica, the first place still goes to Costa Rica’s natural beauty and ambiance. The eco tourists now have company from dollar-investors. But the Ticos are pragmatic: both things are bringing a lot of foreign capital into the country, and in the end every Tico is the better for it.

Author: Martijn Koolhoven, De Telegraaf

New real estate offices in Playa Tambor

The Costa Rica real estate industry as we all know is in full swing and Playa Tambor is no exception. Foreign investors that have been eyeballing this town for years are now in the beginning stages of creating their dreams. It seems like there are new projects being started all around us here in Tambor. For those that are not in the real estate business, I think they would be surprised to find out what the future is bringing to our area. Sure everything takes time here, but as time marches on I only see the positive growth and development of this not so little town we call Playa Tambor.

New real estate offices in Costa Rica are popping up all around us and Tambor is no exception. By far the oldest and largest in Tambor is Century 21 Tambor Hills real estate which has been operating now for almost 10 years. A full service real estate brokerage firm, Tambor Hills seems to have their hands on everything here in Tambor from sales to registration, property management, topographical design and construction, architectural design and construction with a portfolio that includes farm land, beachfront and Ocean view homes, Ocean and mountain view residential and development properties, not to mention an exciting series of new condominium projects that are now in pre sales.
Considered the leader with hard earned experience and many happy customers, Century 21 Tambor Hills Real Estate here in Playa Tambor employs over 65 people and is in the know, the one to call first for any information regarding your investment in the Tambor area.

Another real estate office that has been operating here in Tambor is Re Max. Owned by Jay Angelo and his wife Inid from Colorado, this little firm has been in operation for over 3 years now bringing people here from Colorado to see the charm and grace that Playa Tambor has to offer.

The new kid on the block is Coldwell Banker. Just getting started, and bringing in people from Florida we can expect good things from Carlton and Spencer here in the future.

They say that competition is healthy, and I believe this to be true. The more services we provide the more people will come to see the natural wonders and ambiance Playa Tambor real estate has to offer.

Real estate in Costa Rica is booming

Real estate in Costa Rica is booming, especially in the Playa Tambor area. Whether it be raw land for development, a beachfront villa or condominium, a mountain lot to build your dream on, an existing home to be used as a vacation getaway or a place to call home, properties in Costa Rica especially in beach areas like Playa Tambor are in high demand.
While some of the reasons behind this increasing surge of foreign investment are the country’s political stability, favorable tax structures and affordable land prices, it’s the natural beauty, the ambiance and the slower lifestyle areas like Playa Tambor have to offer that is gaining more and more attention worldwide.
The Costa Rican Government has an open arms policy towards foreign investors offering the potential investor clear title with streamlined registrations, S.A. Corporations designed specifically to hold properties for non nationals and comparatively low property and income taxes.
People that are coming into retirement age from around the world are facing fixed yearly incomes with ever increasing medical and living costs. You’ve worked hard all your life and prepared for retirement only to find yourself on the backside of a curve that for many is unmanageable. Costa Rica offers the same high standards and quality of living you can find elsewhere at affordable prices.
Costa Rica has some of the best medical care in the Americas. Along with their social health care system, hospitals like “Cima” in San Jose offer the newest and most technologically advanced equipment along with experienced and highly trained physicians at a fraction of the cost you can find elsewhere.
Costa Rica has gained considerable ground in recent years with respect to improving its already high standard of living through continuing effort towards upgrading their infrastructure to include telecommunications with cellular telephone and high speed internet now being in place throughout the country.
Once you’ve seen for yourself the unsurpassed natural beauty and experienced the simplified lifestyle we call Costa Rica, you would be hard pressed to find a better place to live or retire and to protect or even expand your portfolio while living in a free and wholesome environment.

Century 21 Tambor Hills, Costa Rica Proudly welcomes you to our corner of the World!

The word is out. Now in rapid development the area known as Playa Tambor located on the Southern Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica is truly a treasure waiting to be found. Surrounded by mountains that are still in their pristine and natural state, the town of Tambor which boarders the center of Bahia Ballena or Whale Bay has been visited by international travelers for the past 10 years. It is hard to put into words the ambiance, biodiversity and the natural beauty that lies here.With all the services for the most discerning and the only airport on the Southern Nicoya Peninsula just 10 minutes from the center of town offering daily scheduled flights to the Capital and other destinations within Costa Rica, Tambor is now to be considered a true International Vacation Destination, with high standard rentals in costa rica. The Republic of Costa Rica is a Democracy and welcomes all business investments, offering privately held corporations and clear property title to individuals with Stewart Title Company providing the additional comfort and security to the foreign investor. The Southern Nicoya Peninsula, especially the Tambor area is currently undergoing a surge of interest from foreign investors with many new residential projects now coming on line with others planned to follow in the future. As a result we have seen an over 25 % rise in property values in the last year alone with no end in sight. Why Invest in Costa Rica?
For a multitude of reasons people from around the World are investing in Costa Rica real estate. Along with ambiance and natural beauty people are seeing the genuine warmth of the Costa Rican people, the friendliness of the Government, the low cost of living, reasonable property prices with high appreciating values, a high standard of living and low tax structures along with the qualified and secure investments that real estate in Costa Rica provides. The Republic of Costa Rica has something for everyone and is everything you are dreaming of. For the ex patriots that have made Costa Rica their home, the feeling of presence and well being that engulfs their spirit is genuine. Almost everyone has dreams of living in a tropical paradise, in a wholesome, natural, secure and peaceful environment. With the continuing rising cost of living and the excessive high costs of medical care throughout the world, people that have already retired or are getting close to retirement age are now faced with an impossible and unyielding problem. They have worked hard all their lives preparing for those Golden Years and are now finding that their pensions won’t see them through and the money along with the assets that they have been accumulating and guarding all these years are beginning to erode in front of their eyes.Where else in the world can you find such a high standard and low cost of living along with increasing appreciation while protecting your portfolio? The truth is that Costa Rica still lacks some of the goods and services that we are accustomed to, but one has to think is the glass half empty or really half full? Considering the inconsequential and trivial things we have to part with, I think you’ll find that Costa Rica pays high dividends.
New Condominium Projects in Costa Rica:
Ocean Whisper, an exiting new condominium complex developed by IPA award winning Riverside Developers will be located in Los Delfines Golf and Country Club at Playa Tambor in Costa Rica. Now in pre sales and scheduled to begin construction this year on 30 units consisting of 1 and 3 bedroom condominiums, Ocean Whisper is offering all the amenities of country club living with high end appointments within walking distance from the sand beaches and calm Pacific waters of Bahia Ballena. Ocean Whisper Condominiums are affordable with 3 bedroom units selling for $305,000 and when completed will be in high demand and have an active rental program available while you are away. For investment and appreciating value, now would be your chance to get in on the ground floor, to ride the wave of the future in one of the most exciting costa rica real estate markets here in Costa Rica. Visit Ocean Whisper at http://tamborhills.com/condos-ocean-whisper.html

Tambor Hills Residential the “View From Above” already shared by numerous luxury homes is now entering its second stage of development. Currently in the process of paving the mountain road that leads up to this exclusive mountain top development, Tambor Hills residence with breathtaking mountain and ocean views that stretch far out into the Pacific offers sizeable building platforms only minutes from the Tambor Airport and tropical beaches of Playa Tambor. If you are interested in owning and building your private home in an exclusive setting close to all the action and the areas tropical beaches in Costa Rica, Tambor Hills is for you.Visit Tambor Hills Residential at www.tamborhillsresidence.com

Whale Bay Crest a “Cut above the Rest” is part of the Tambor Hills Residential project and slated to be the most exclusive and luxurious residential condominium on the entire Southern Nicoya Peninsula. This is Costa Rica Real Estate at its best. Ready to begin construction in the next 30 days and offering a total of only 10 units when completed, Whale Bay Crest will be the model of luxury here in Playa Tambor. Currently in pre sales, Whale Bay Crest is gaining a lot of attention so NOW would be the time to reserve your place.Visit Whale Bay Crest at http://tamborhills.com/condos-tambor-whale-bay.html

Terra Mar Condominiums located in the center of Playa Tambor is also scheduled to cut ground this year and will be the first beachfront condominium on the entire Southern Nicoya Peninsula. Offering first class accommodations for the most discerning and just footsteps from the sand beaches and calm waters of Bahia Ballena, Terra Mar once completed will have a highly active rental program in place making this a solid investment that is guaranteed to appreciate nicely in the future. Also in pre sales, Terra Mar Condominiums Costa Rica by all indications will ignite the already explosive real estate market that is now in place here in the Tambor area. Visit Terra Mar Costa Rica at http://tamborhills.com/condos-tambor-terramar.html

Bayside Condominiums are another example of luxury living being created by Riverside Developers in the Los Delfines Golf and Country Club. Now entering the completion stages on 8 exclusive 2 story private Beachfront Villas, the Bayside Condominiums have only one unit available at present for resale.Enjoy the fresh ocean breeze and listen to the waves from your own balcony, or take a stroll along the private sand beach that is just footsteps away from your door. For appreciation and value, this would be your opportunity to own the one of these exclusive and extraordinarily beautiful Condominiums. Visit Bayside Condominiums at http://tamborhills.com/listman/listings/l0183.html

The Services That We Provide

Our home office in Costa Rica, Century 21 Tambor Hills Real Estate in Playa Tambor offers a full line of high quality services dedicated towards the residential development of land in Tambor to include:

• Sales


• Registration


• Topographical Design / Masterplanning


• Construction


• Heavy machinery (road construction)


• Architectural Design and Construction

Our portfolio also includes:
Farms in Costa Rica for Commercial and Residential Development Beachfront homes / Oceanview Homes and Development Properties in Costa Rica Ocean / Mountain View Residential and Costa Rica Development Properties If you are thinking of investing in costa rica or a property in Costa Rica whether it be for a vacation getaway or a place to call home, we are at your service so call our toll free number USA Toll Free 1-800-774-3970 or come to see for yourself the natural beauty and ambiance Playa Tambor has to offer.

Visit our New and daily Revised web site www.tamborhills.com for up to date descriptions of properties and homes in Costa Rica that are available.
Why wait, NOW is the time to invest in Tambor!