We’ve just finalized the dates for our brand new series of 3-Day Nicaragua Property Tours. We’ll be running tours on:

• May 20-22 2011
• June 17-19 2011
• July 29-31 2011, and
• August 12-14 2011

Click here for the details or complete this form to receive a full itinerary. We cover all your in-country expenses for two nights and three days. As we keep the tours small and personalized, they fill up quickly. So reserve your place as soon as you can. We hope to see you soon in beautiful Nicaragua.

Getting in front of the right opportunities.

The right opportunity may mean a motivated seller. It may mean a developer who is pulling out all the stops to woo buyers. It may mean a breaking, first-in opportunity. And it will always mean a great property.

We’re seeing two trends in the Nicaragua real estate market right now. The first is buyers with more negotiating leverage than they have had in years. The second is sellers contacting us with tremendous deals on properties they have for sale.

The next step is obvious. We’re putting buyer and seller together in our brand new 3 day Your Future Now tours.

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Our Your Future Now property tours have been so successful that we’re adding more dates between November 2009 and February 2010 – to coincide with Nicaragua’s traditional high season.

The tours take place over 3 days, we co-ordinate everything from your airport pick-up to hotel accommodations during your visit to the country and you won’t have to pay a cent over the three days. Learn more.

That’s right, we cover all your in-country expenses, with no obligation whatsoever.

Here are the new dates:*

• November 13-15th 2009
• December 4-6th 2009
• December 11-13th 2009
• February 12-14th 2010 – Special focus on Green real estate developments.
• February 26-28th 2010

Benefits from joining Your Future Now property tours:

Cut great real estate deals on exceptional properties – Remember many of the deals we’ll be showing you are released specially for the tour. It’s the perfect way to leverage the current buyer’s market.

See more properties that you could on your own – Our tours are jam-packed and intensive. They’re designed to make the most of your most precious commodity: your time. We keep the tours small so that we can offer you a personalized experience.

Build your own network of experts, legal advisors and analysts – We’ve opened up our contact book giving you face-to-face access to the best investment and legal brains in the country. On tour we will also educate you on the process involved with purchasing property as a foreigner and the ins and outs of Title Insurance

Experience first hand how you can live a luxury lifestyle for less – Nicaragua has the cheapest cost of living in Central America. We’ll show you how you can live like a rockstar on a bare bones budget.

See for yourself opportunities for personal and business development – Whether you are downshifting or embarking on a new businesses abroad, the opportunities are vast and yours for the taking.

Leverage the Coldwell Banker experience – We’ve run dozens of real estate tours and helped hundreds of investors purchase in Nicaragua. Our tours are the result of the many years of experience that Coldwell Banker has in finding the best investment and lifestyle buys in the country.

Interested? Please complete this form for more details.

Comparison shopping

The key indicator to look at to determine where a market lies along a development curve is the cost of property. Problem is, it can be hard to get hold of comparative market statistics in Central America, particularly in areas where there is no functioning MLS.

So we turned to Reveal Real Estate, a market research organization focusing on international real estate in Central America. They have aggregated listing prices from real estate developments and master planned communities in Nicaragua, Belize, Costa Rica and Panama and put this information online. The chart below shows their analysis of median price per square foot for houses in 2008 across the four countries.

Nicaragua emerges as the lowest cost property destination across all categories, and second cheapest (after Panama) for ocean view houses. The 2009 data, which has just been released for Nicaragua and Panama real estate, backs this up with Nicaragua emerging as a cheaper investment destination across all property types. Costa Rica real estate and Belize property data will soon be released so we’ll run the comparison when it is available.

And it’s not just property values that are paving the way for early-in property investors, Nicaragua has the lowest cost of living in Central America. (Calculated using implied Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) conversion rate from the IMF.)

It’s a buyers market in Nicaragua

Right now it’s a buyers market in Nicaragua. The country is not immune to the global economic crisis. Developers are offering incentives and there have been some price reductions. But what’s clear is that Nicaragua is not experiencing the double digit declines we’re accustomed to seeing in headlines across the globe.

As noted by Reveal Real Estate, the key reason for this is the low levels of lender-mediated activity in the Nicaragua property market. With most property purchases being made in cash, foreclosures are very rare.

A second factor is the emergence of a new type of ‘lifestyle investor.’ These are buyers who are seeing their chances of retiring in, say, Florida unwind but they’re not ready to give up on the lifestyle they had planned for their retirement. So they’re looking at countries like Nicaragua where the real estate is cheaper and, crucially, the cost of living more affordable. And they’re getting in early by investing in Nicaragua real estate.

And that’s exactly what we will be doing on our Your Future Now real estate tours in March.

We’ve run the numbers, done the math, interviewed and ranked property developments across the country against 7 Opportunity Factors. We’ve ensured that the tour only showcases market leaders with strong brands, delivering quality products that are already outperforming their competitors:

Learn more about our 7 Opportunity Factors and Your Future Now tours in March 2009.

Your Future Now will run on March 13-15, 2009 and again on March 20-22, 2009. If your preferred date is full, we’ll try our hardest to accommodate you on the alternative tour date.

No question, Your Future Now is a highly efficient way to get a handle on this market. And remember, we’re covering all on-the-ground expenses for three days. All you need to do is book your air ticket to Managua. We’ll take care of the rest.

Learn more.

Following the tremendous success of the Choose Nicaragua tours in February, we are delighted to announce three new April tour dates.

Join us in April for the same insider access to the top places in Nicaragua to live and invest.

That is not a glib marketing statement – these market leaders represent the finest properties and investment opportunities across the country as a whole. We at Coldwell Banker Nicaragua have been working in-country long enough to know the difference between quality and hype.

Here’s some feedback from the February 25-27 Choose Nicaragua tour:

“The ‘Choose Nicaragua Tour’ exceeded all our expectations! With so many quality and diverse developments represented by professional and sincere agents from Coldwell Banker. The no pressure, informative approach made it a trip to remember, highlighted for us with new friendships and a new vacation / investment property. Many thanks to Ashley, Brooke & Sam from Coldwell Banker and all the developers who shared their vision of Nicaragua with us.” Pat & Kim Hamson, Alberta, Canada.

The properties we show you on tour appeal to both head and heart. You’ll first connect on an emotional level, then you’ll run the numbers, as we have done, and see the hard logic of the investment.

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We urge you to make your arrangements right away to take advantage of the special offers from the Choose Nicaragua developers. The special prices, as with all good things, must come to an end. They will only be available for participants on the private tour visiting the country before April 30th 2008.

The Choose Nicaragua tours will run on the following dates: Friday April 4 to Sunday April 6; Friday April 18 to Sunday April 20 and Friday April 25 to Sunday April 27.

We look forward to being your host in beautiful Nicaragua.

I suspected something might be afoot as I was recently there and saw a jet-ranger helicopter departing. I chatted a bit with security personnel who were on-site at the time in an effort to learn who the visitors were. The guard had never seen any of them before with the exception of the person who was appointed to manage the land for the time being.

Needless to say, there was a reason a very expensive helicopter arrived with 6 passengers. I think we now know the reason. There are a few lots for sale there at the time which I think are a bargain at the moment.

Guacalito also features on our Nicaragua Surf Vacation tours. The reason: It’s got a great barreling left that breaks off a point on the north of Manzanillo beach.

We are pleased to announce an opportunity for true pristine beachfront – a 1 acre property where you can step right onto the sand of one of Nicaragua’s finest beaches. A completed golf course; the Colorado surf break -the most famous in the country- flaming red sunsets and access to all the amenities at Hacienda Iguana beach resort complete the picture perfectly.

Beaches, surfing and golf – a magnetic combination

Beachfront property in Nicaragua has shown to appreciate at a faster rate than ocean-view property. Combine this with some of the best surfing on the planet; the fastest growing real estate development in the country and a completed golf course … the result – a great investment option and lifestyle buy.

Everything’s up-and-running already

Right now, development along Nicaragua’s south Pacific Coast is booming. This is great news for the buyer looking to move into a first-rate community where everything’s up and running. At Iguana you don’t have to wait for amenities to arrive. You can enjoy them right now.

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Nicaragua is rapidly coming under the spotlight of those seeking a tax efficient country in which to live, an affordable country in which to retire and a place of outstanding natural beauty to revel in. The boomers have not yet arrived in mass – but they will. The demographics are set for growth. The lure for titled, fee simple property where you can walk right onto the beach, is strong – there are entire sites devoted to the coverage of beachfront property – and what is on offer here will continue to attract the highest demand when compared with other property categories.

This 1 acre property, with fee simple title is exclusively listed with Coldwell Banker and combines 2 separately deeded 1/2 acre properties. The asking price is $360,000. And the beach here is simply stunning. Wide, long and sweeping and framed by two dramatic headlands that turn pink at sunset. Check out the photo below.

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The surf breaks at Iguana are featured on the Surf Nicaragua vacation packages offered by Awiderview.