In Costa Rica the intensive agriculture ( coffe, pineapple, banana, rice, oil palm, etc.) have been the historical activity, together wit the extensive cattle breeding, and in the last century the dense rainforest that was covering almost all the country was cleared at an impressive rate per year, specially in the north-west area, the Guanacaste, where the deforestation has been so extended  and complete that the same climate have been dramatically changed, transforming that area of green lush forest to the almost pre-desertic environment that you can see today, completely deprived of the species of animal that were depending from the forest consistency.

Other areas of Costa Rica had a little bit more luck, due to the distance from the centre of the civilization hub and to the local weather. The surviving  virgin rainforest in the country are less than the 10% of the surface and the Osa Peninsula alone own almost half of them, making clear how important is the conservation of this natural resource.

Costa Rica Real Estate Agencies, normally offer a wide fan of possibilities, ranging from prestigious beachfront properties, or ocean front lots, to some hidden forest property, or houses facing breath-breaker tropical beaches, giving the idea that the whole country is still a complex of estate for sale.

Travelling across Costa Rica, you can see everywhere signs with the " property for sale " letters, on the fence of a piece of land that have been sold and bought, maybe three or four time in the last ten years, from the original Costarican owner to a foreigner, to another foreigner, etc., multiplying the price at each passage.

Be careful when, lured by the opportunity to buy a nice piece of land for a really cheap price, you enter in a deal with the " owner ", sometime people got " Planos Catastrados " of  pieces of land that are inside another titled property and you will loose your time and your money.

In the last years the fast growth of the Real Estate business in this area, lured every kind of people to became a " land seller", and now almost every hotel and restaurant owner offer "properties", and every taxi drivers has in his dash, at least, a couple of land plans to show to some naive client, and almost none of them has the lesser idea about the rules and laws that are involved in the titling process in the different zones that compose the Peninsula. For more information about this issue, please visit

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Golfo Dulce Real Estate, and specially here, in the Osa, is still a first level business; a waterfront property here, is still the private beach of some small farmer that live there with some cattle and some land where harvest some rice and beans for the typical food, having in the same piece of land, maybe, a " backyard " rainforest property that he can sell and use the income for to up rise his standard of life making some change in the farm, in the house or for to build a simple but nice Ocean Front House to rent to tourists.

And this is the biggest challenge : to develop the area in a way that will permit to the locals to enhance their life standard without destroying the environment and the traditional farmer culture.

For this reason the local price for a beach front property here, in the Costa Rica South Pacific, is still one quarter of a similar one in the most well known, but well deprived, tourism centres of other parts of the country.

So, buying a piece of land here around, a beach lot, a deep forest farm or a waterside land, along one of the hundred rivers that flow from the Corcovado Park's mountains, is a commitment with the higher concentration of biological mass of living beings in the world, Costa Rica really welcomes you if you understand this important issue and will act with the aim of integrate your Dream House or Lodge in this environment, conserving it for the new generations.