By Ronan McMahon
AFR
Having spent much of December in Costa Rica I was back last week. This time my trip took me to the Peninsula Papagayo where The Oxford Club invited me to speak at their Latin America Private Wealth Symposium.
I’ve told you about this area before. Here, investors made a killing from positioning themselves ahead of the Path of Progress.
Costa Rica’s Southern Zone is a text book Path of Progress play. This is a beautiful place where price stayed low because it was difficult to get to. Now it’s easily accessible by road. And President Laura Chinchilla was in the area last October, lending her support to the new airport.
Pacific Lots is only a few minutes from the little town of Ojochal and its restaurants and cafes. It’s right in the heart of the Southern Zone and the finest project in the area—yet $65,000 buys you a half-acre oceanview lot (that’s a RETA members-only price).
Happy New Year. I hope you enjoyed the holidays. I’ve just returned from an extended December scouting trip to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, preceded by some vacation time in Costa Rica’s Manuel Antonio.
Happy Holidays. And a big “thank you” for investing the time and money to be part of our little group. This is RETA’s third Christmas. Our numbers are growing and we are an increasingly active group. That’s good for everyone. You see, it gives me more leverage to negotiate member-only pricing and terms. And, to get developers to pick up some or all of the tab for members-only chill weekends and scouting trips.
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Back in August, I told you how you could lock down an interest-free lot in Belize—in the Ceiba Horsefield phase of Orchid Bay. The monthly payments were just $600. You have a second chance at this deal.
I’ve put together something special for you now. I’d like to invite you to join a small group of your fellow RETA members in Fortaleza for a members-only scouting trip next February 3rd, 4th and 5th. That’s three full days of visiting the best opportunities in the city, and the beaches to the east and west.
Los Árboles de Tulum is located 12 minutes inland from Tulum’s pristine beaches and just minutes outside the town of Tulum. As of January 1st 0% developer financing on these lots is off the table. The project moves to its next phase—the home construction and community center phase.
I’ve just returned from a scouting trip to Tulum, down the coast along Mexico’s Costa Maya and into Belize. I had plenty of time to catch up with the developers of projects in Mexico and Belize where RETA members have bought—including Benjamin Beja of Tao and Sian Ka’an.
Brazil is fast becoming the bread basket of the world—it’s the largest exporter of coffee, soy, orange juice, beef, chicken, sugar and ethanol. The cerrados, Brazil’s high plains, cover 500 million acres. The USDA has estimated that 400 million acres of this could be opened for crop production. The area yet to be opened for agricultural production is 25% larger that the total crop acreage of the U.S.
