Costa Rica well known for its export of coffee worldwide, is located in Central America with an eastern coastline on the Caribbean and a western Pacific coastline.
Located between Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south, Costa Rica has a landmass of almost 20,000 square miles with a varied tropical and sub-tropical climate and mountainous landscape that includes several volcanoes.
Costa Rica has a population of just over 4.5 million people and an economy still largely focused on agricultural products, but with tourism making a substantial contribution.
Property prices in Costa Rica are varied but tend towards the more affordable end of the Caribbean property market, partly due to the lower cost of purchasing land, with good sized tracts of land in the interior being very affordable.
Construction in Costa Rica is very varied to suit the topography and with many architectural styles from ethnic and local utilitarian concrete, to ultra modern and stylish timber homes, with timber and thatch being used on a good number of homes constructed by the ex-patriot community or for tourist developments.
