List your Puerto Viejo 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.
Puerto Viejo is the busiest part of the Caribbean coast and the easiest part of it to sell in. There is a real international community here, restaurants that stay open, surf at Salsa Brava, and a road south through Cocles, Chiquita and Punta Uva to Manzanillo that has quietly become the most desirable stretch on this side of the country.
It is still a fraction of the size of the Guanacaste market, and it behaves differently. Buyers here are not comparing you with Tamarindo. They have already decided they do not want Tamarindo.
Where we take listings: Puerto Viejo town, Playa Cocles, Playa Chiquita, Punta Uva and Manzanillo.
What sells here: Houses and villas along the Cocles to Punta Uva road, jungle lots with beach access, small hotels and rental properties, and businesses in the town.
European and North American buyers, a lot of them already running or planning to run something — rentals, a small hotel, a restaurant. There are more remote workers here every year, and they ask about internet before they ask about the kitchen.
Water and access first, as everywhere on this coast. Then, on anything near the sand, whether the land is titled or sits in the maritime zone. That question decides more deals here than the house itself does.
If the property is south of Manzanillo, expect questions about the wildlife refuge and what can and cannot be done there. And if it earns, they will want to see what it has actually earned, not a projection.
The stretch from Cocles to Punta Uva is where most of the money is on this coast. It is also where the maritime zone questions are sharpest, so get your title position clear before the listing goes out.
- 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, 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. There is no contract to sign and nothing to pay.
