Touring 2 Guanacaste 3BR Homes | Costa Rica Open House 6
e e please pardon that delay welcome to Friday's Costa Rica open house our live show here about Costa Rica real estate every Friday live at noon today we have two different three bedroom homes that we are going to be exploring and as always we're going going to be exploring them using our amazing matterport tours here so that everyone out there can get a feeling of these properties and we'll be discussing today the different pros and cons of these two three-bedroom houses as always here on my show I want to talk about uh some of the nuances and today we'll specifically be discussing the question how much land do you need to feel private in Costa Rico or really what size of lot do you need if you want to feel like you have a private property we'll talk a little bit about lot subdivision law and how things get segregated here and of course at the end of our show we will give you our loyal following the opportunity to engage in these matterport tours yourselves by giving you the link to those 360 degree tours for those of you who have virtual reality headgear you can strap those on and take a virtual trip to these uh houses them yourselves the two listings we're going to be looking at today just to give you a quick overview are going to be Rancho golondrinas and compo deenos two three-bedroom homes here in Guanacaste Costa Rica I want to First give a quick uh overview of their basic information so that you get an idea of what listings we're looking at and and then we'll delve into our topic about the land specifically here we're looking at compo De suenos a $460,000 home that is about a 10minute uh let's say 10-minute bike ride really just a five minute drive down to Playa kones this is a three-bedroom with a really nice pool and it is on a 3/4 acre lot or 3,000 square meters so we'll be discussing that lot size in particular we'll also be looking at Rancho golondrinas the listing of my colleague maram uh asking price is very similar to compo deenos $465,000 it's a home with a completely different feel whereas at compo deenos you have that clean modern fresh sort of Airy look here at compo is here at Rancho gandras you have those Richwood ceilings you've got that sort of Guanacaste charm that's more integrated into the property and really a design that is a lot different than that bright new cheery kind of feel that you get over at compo deenos let's first talk a little bit about land in Costa Rica and how much property you will need for privacy down here you'll see a large number of parcels that are segregated that have a size of 5,000 square m or what turns out to be 1.25 Acres the reason that you see so many properties that are 1.25 Acres uh that 5,000 meter size and up is simply that it's easier legally to segregate those Parcels using private accesses that the government created sort of as ways for really people to be able to hand down their land to their children easily so you see tons of developments where the developers wanted to avoid the difficulty of creating a condominium which is necessary to create private lots that are smaller than that 5,000 square meter size and to be short 5,000 square meters here or anywhere above it is going to give you a ton of opportunity to have a private forested existence and the nice thing about those communities when you've got 5,000 square meter Lots is that everybody is going to have the same size parcel and you can assume that people will naturally space their homes out on their 5,000 square meters so as not to be directly on top of their neighbors uh you know really as close as possible realizing I need to switch hopefully the audio quality just improved slightly be below that 5,000 square meter lot you will find obviously properties of every size I have a new home listed that's a one-bedroom home right by the beach on 230 square meters or only about 3,000 square feet of property and then obviously you go up to acreages Farms Etc the two properties we're looking at have 3/4 of an acre and just over an acre of property and one of the things that I wanted to mention that's important to consider here in Costa Rica is that if you're buying uh a lot on a public road and somebody is allowed to use their property as they see fit with no homeowners association if there is no rule from preventing them from do so doing so here in Costa Rica you can build a privacy wall or any structure that doesn't have a window on the first story all the way up to the immediate property line and you see that more commonly here in Guanacaste people are opting for building these perimeter walls all the way around their property specifically to create privacy and security on these smaller properties I see a ton of lots that are segregated at about 1,000 square m that's a quarter acre you could find a quarter acre in hour our area for sale at maybe 880 to $90,000 if it was close to the beach and sort of one of those Beach rental property opportunities a th000 square meters and a quarter acre when you lay it out and when you put a perimeter wall around it still can feel absolutely like you have some space and you can fit not only a pool but a bit of Lawn and Garden area your little Zen pagota if you want to do that now this is obviously if you have a house that's in that two to three bedroom range but really I would say about a th000 square met is that point at which or a quarter acre is really where you can start to feel that if everybody builds walls around me I'm going to be a little bit closed in and you might want to look for a larger property one of the properties we're going to look at today um here for Rancho gandras is actually on two lots each each of them are a half acre and it's a great example that I feel that 2,000 square met or just a little bit right in that Halfacre range really is where you start to feel like you have plenty of space for yourself and where if your neighbors decided to build perimeter walls around their properties as well uh that you would see you could still not feel very closed in so when buying property here do keep in mind that people can build up to that property line if they don't have a window on their first story and that can definitely create a closed in small feeling on your property if you own those lots that are less than an a quarter acre or less than a th square meters let's delve in now with our first property here that I want to discuss uh actually this is not the first one I wanted to discuss here is compo deenos we're starting out in the middle here and when we share these matterport tours here I highly encourage you to click around you can use wsad to move around like you're playing a video game um it' be so cool if we could add some lasers to this or something to sort of Dodge around or to make this an actual game but here at compo De suenos you're on 34 of an acre and and I wanted to show um what that 3/4 of an acre looks like when you're actually walking around it so let's take a ver a little stroll here stepping out the front door of the house hopefully this is what you're seeing great um here as we step away from the pool and move past the house you're going to get an idea of what 34 of an acre feels like and frankly at compo deeno you can see that 3,000 square met the size of this property leaves you a ton of space the public road is out there at the gate past Demitri's motorcycle there and here's exactly what I'm talking about with privacy walls along one edge of Ceno's 3,000 square meters the neighbor has gone right up to their property line with a privacy wall for um as a little development that's over there with um five total homes and you can imagine if this were a very small piece of property surrounded by that kind of privacy wall wh now you can you can see all my suggested videos there uh here's the three4 of the acre looking towards your neighbor in that closest Direction so you actually own almost until let's say this Guanacaste here that I'm uh showing with the cursor and that 3/4 of an acre even is going to provide the buyer of this property the opportunity to um build additional structures really you'd have you know you could do some cabins out there and still have the Privacy here in your main home compo deenos is a great example of how people you know when the owners purchased this I think four or five years ago it was just the bones of a normal Guanacaste you know sort of concrete house they did a ton of work to create this fresh cool aesthetic here in the open kitchen you know living and dining space here they added on the pool which was critical to boosting their rental interest and their rental income and they also converted what previously was a garage over here into a third bedroom really adding a third bedroom onto a property here creates a lot of opportunity for your occupancy to expand on a rental property um there are countless two-bedroom condominiums in Guanacaste Costa Rica that are for rent and therefore uh your two-bedroom rental market typically has an enormous amount of inventory um next let's hop over to our other three-bedroom home here with a completely different feel than Rancho goand I'm sorry than Campo deenos here we're looking at Rancho golondrinas as I was saying you know you have a Guanacaste feel the wood ceilings um you know sort of Darker richer colors definitely this is one of it was perfect we had a showing during an absolute downpour um a week ago and this has got to be one of the most cozy homes I've ever been in it was perfect timing for it to be raining outside and be indoors in this sort of um warm sort of space now Rancho golondrinas we're going to look here they have a full acre of property and here we're looking Outdoors at what that looks like hopefully we can get this video started here uh for some reason okay let me go back here and just a moment here we'll switch back to this tab I will try to reload the tour in just a moment and I'm realizing I I don't have the link easily accessible while we take this short break for me to bring it back up here I wanted to thank all of my clients the people out there who decide to pick up the phone and call me to either buy or sell real estate here in Guanacaste Costa Rica uh definitely here's a cheers to a happy Friday with some responsible uh water consumption man and my computer is just taking its sweet time here as we pull up the tour again there we go all right now hopefully we'll be able to get this loaded and get back into our tour in just a moment everything's doing funny stuff here that is the wonderful thing of working Live on YouTube here well and oh well sometimes things just don't go as you planned we have a video walking around okay here we go now we're going to go outside and take a look hopefully at what this acre looks like I'll also send a huge choose to Christopher worth thanks very much for joining us today glad you're enjoying things uh and now okay so we are trying to walk outdoors and take a look at this acre here at Rancho golondrinas as I mentioned here the property is actually separated into two lots so you only have a half acre over on this side of the Hedge closest to the house and then you have another half acre over here in this green space on our right you can see that really 4500 square meters of property which is what you get here is plenty of land to be private for yourself you could have an entirely separate property here Over the Hedge to our right hand side outside of the frame and still you know have 2 000 square meters or a half acre of property for yourself and feel pretty darn private um in this place Rancho golondrinas and Campo deenos are both homes that are not located in gated communities um so they're very similar in that regard Rancho golondrinas is about a 10-minute drive out to the beach whereas compo deenos is a bit closer here one of the amazing things that they've got on the property at Rancho gandras and so now we're stepping out into the backyard and this is again just on half of the property um we're going to see if we can take a look if we get this to load here absolutely we're going to see from the sky just how big the property looks slowly but surely we Ascend uh r go andras is a large uh home by the way I think we've got something like 2400 Square fet in there 2500 square feet interior space and here really you can get an idea on the left side of the property you've got the home and backyard and driveway on just a half acre and then you have an entirely open lot here to the right side of that driveway that is another half half acre of land if someone were so inclined they could potentially acquire Rancho golondrinas and uh sell that property uh it would be totally possible this home the current owners also did some improvements of their own they changed this uh former bedroom into an office over here it's a lockout um so you've got a really nice separate perfect place for digital Nomads here you they added this um roof over the space between sort of the uh horseshoe layout of the house and they've also really done a nice job Furnishing the home with some new stuff um this was definitely I big shout out to the former own of this house owner of this house John loved the look that you had for it but it was a little bit worn and sort of just you know more comfortable for you John this new house has a bit or you know the new furniture just has some great curb appeal like I said this is a three-bedroom home one of those bedrooms is currently an office um but on either side of this living space here you've got your your inside bedrooms the primary Suite is huge you also have a utility room um this is a house that originally had four Beday in it I can't remember if the current owners have removed any of them you come through the kitchen here they've updated the appliances um added some really nice stuff in here and then you have one of the biggest primary bedrooms that I have recently seen um you know this is actually I think a California king bed in the middle of the room and you can see there's just massive space on every side of it the home has these gorgeous wood floors in the bedrooms they've got uh the wood ceilings again and you even have your subscriptions set up on the TV here so Rancho gandras again is offered at 465,000 comp deenos the house that we were looking at previously is asked oh man did I is asking 460,000 if you would like to delve into uh either of those matterport tours here we go with those links you can hold up your phone right now and use the F the camera function to scan this QR code I believe for compo deos and if you would like to review our other listing hopefully this one is for Rancho golondrinas these are two different QR codes I just changed it uh you have let's go back here first of all I should have mentioned if you want to find out more about these listings or any others be sure to send me an email to Matt coaster rat.com again here is listing number one the the 3D matterport tour use your camera function on your phone to pull it up and explore away here is matterport tour number two thanks very much for joining me folks it's been a great time I look forward to you joining me next Friday here have a good one for
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