List your Dominical property free. Pay nothing until it sells.
No listing fee. No marketing fee. Nothing monthly. And it is an open listing, so you can list with us and with every other agent you like at the same time — whoever brings the buyer is the one who gets paid.
Dominical is a surf town that never quite got around to becoming a resort town, and the people buying here like it that way. The village itself is small. The value is in the ridges behind it, where the ocean views run for miles and the jungle starts at the edge of the lawn.
Escaleras is the name most buyers arrive with, and it is the clearest example of what this market rewards: a genuinely good view, on a lot you can build on, reached by a road you can actually get up.
Where we take listings: Dominical, Dominicalito, Escaleras, Lagunas, Platanillo, Barú, Hatillo and Poza Azul.
What sells here: Ridge homes with long ocean views, jungle lots, houses in and around the village with a rental history, fincas, and small lodges and restaurants.
Surfers, nature buyers and people moving here full time. Fewer investors than in Guanacaste and more people who intend to live in the house. They usually visit twice before they make an offer, and they ask about daily life as much as about the property.
Access comes first, always. Which road, how steep, whether it needs four-wheel drive, who maintains it, and what happens to it in the wettest months. On the ridges that single question makes or breaks the sale.
Then water and power. Then the ground itself — buyers on steep land want to know about drainage, slippage and what has been done to stabilise the building platform. Then internet, because a lot of people here are working from the house.
A view lot and a buildable view lot are not the same thing, and buyers in Escaleras know it. If you have a survey, a soil study or approved plans, that is worth more here than another photograph.
- List with as many agents as you like, and sell it yourself if you find the buyer
- Every agent has to actually produce a buyer to earn anything
- Walk away whenever you want — nothing binds you to us
- More agents showing it means more people see it
- One agency holds it for a fixed term, often six months or a year
- They earn the fee even if somebody else finds the buyer, or if you do
- After the first flurry of calls, a lot of exclusives simply sit there
- If the agency loses interest, you wait out the contract
On an exclusive our payday is protected the day it is signed. On an open listing it is not protected at all. That is exactly why we prefer it.
Two things, and neither is difficult. Keep the price the same everywhere — nothing kills a sale faster than a buyer finding your house at three prices on three websites. And tell every agent when something changes: a price adjustment, a new roof, a tenant moving out, an offer under negotiation.
Send the address, the price you want and whatever photos are on your phone. That is enough for us to tell you whether we can help and what we would do with it. There is no contract to sign and nothing to pay.
