Real Estate
Latin America Guide 2025 : Costa Rica
Band 3
Email address
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506 4000 1141About
Provided by Ecija Abogados
The firm has an extremely experienced team of professionals who advise on Real Estate transactions, either locally or all over the Region, as the case may be. Our Real Estate team gets involved in the acquisition of rough and built land, construction agreements, concession processes, environmental matters, financing schemes, structuring of the development schemes, and the delivery of the product to the final user. Our services assure the highest legal security and the most novel legal Real Estate structures.
Our law firm advised several investors in the purchase of real estate properties in Costa Rica, including the complete cycle of the transaction (draft of purchase option agreement, due diligence review of the real estate property, closing documents, transfer deed, etc.) with a value of over US$55MM during 2021.
Central America offers a dynamic Real Estate market that includes tourism, residential and commercial project development. Costa Rica has special natural conditions for ecotourism (almost 6% of the world’s biodiversity and more than 500,000 species). This situation generates a growing dynamic for the establishment of Real Estate Projects.
Chambers Review
ECIJA has a noteworthy real estate practice that is well known for assisting Costa Rican and regional property developers and clients from the tourism industry with a wide array of real estate mandates. The department regularly advises on the acquisition and sale of properties, the expansion of existing facilities and real estate financing matters.
Work Highlights
- ECIJA advised Croc's Resort & Casino on its merger in connection with the local structure and transfer of operations to the asset company.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team at ECIJA is always extremely thorough and prompt in their advice and provides immediate attention to our requests."
"The team at ECIJA is always extremely thorough and prompt in their advice and provides immediate attention to our requests."
Notable Practitioners
Well-regarded partner and head of departmentGuillermo Zúñigahas experience assisting clients with the development of projects, negotiating sale and purchase agreements and restructuring real estate assets.
"Guillermo Zúñiga has consistently demonstrated professionalism, competence, promptness, and accuracy in all interactions."