Best place to advertise Land for Sale

[Dundalk1]

I know its real tough to sell anything at the moment but any suggestions regarding the best place to advertise land for sale? What commission do the agents typically charge ? Thanks

[barbara ann]

I can tell you from personal experience:
1.Real estate agents are not licensed and most have no training to sell real estate.
2. the companies I contacted here want 6% PLUS they want you to pay 13.5% (their tax) on their commission.
3. Most offices are not staffed and are empty.
4. I am retired from the states and sold real estate in two states with extensive training, memberships and licensing. This is not the states.
5. There is no cooperation between most agents, the MLS is really not used or non existent in most markets,
6. I have been told by agents that they do not want to use an MLS because it takes too much time to fill out information on the properties they list.
I am discouraged by what I have seen, there are some people, and I would not call them agents,that really try hard. You will have to go by referral from someone that knows each individual company.
I have found that advertising here on we love costa rica has been our best bet so far.

[davidd]

[quote=”dundalk1″]I know its real tough to sell anything at the moment but any suggestions regarding the best place to advertise land for sale? What commission do the agents typically charge ? Thanks[/quote]

barbara ann made some great points

I would add this mindset

think about a real estate agent here as a physical person that will be responsible to just physically show prospects your property.. nothing more and nothing less

then use some targeting internet marketing to generate leads.. your job will be to keep that physical person busy busy busy and make him earn that commission.

set up some measuring systems to make sure he does not get lazy and start pre pre qualifing the leads

good luck

[costaricafinca]

I think it will depend on where your property is located.
No use picking an agent who specializes in the Central Valley if the land is located in the Osa peninsula.

[VictoriaLST]

You can try mercadolibre.com and the Craig’s list for CR as well. If you are selling in the Nuevo Arenal/Tilaran area, I can recommend Mike Neal and Rene Aoki through ricoremaxrealty.com and moranlakearenal.com. All have had US training in real estate and are excellent. They are also knowledgeable about attorneys and builders. Good luck!

[elindermuller]

Some dogs bite, so ALL dogs are dangerous ?

People should not generalize because they may have had a bad experience in dealing with a realtor.

The fact that there is no law that requires a real estate license does not mean that all realtors in Costa Rica are unprofessional. Many of them are members of one of the 2 real estate boards and have completed their education package.
Many of them work their butts off, barely feeding the family!
Most of them are really making an effort to learn the language and learn the laws, and even do part of the notaries job in advance !

A license does not necessarily protect a client from getting screwed. I just discovered that a friend of mine, who died in 2010, appeared at a notaries office in Heredia, in MARCH 2013 😯 To sell his properties in Costa Rica. The notary is licensed, I guess ……….

[elindermuller]

[quote=”VictoriaLST”]You can try mercadolibre.com and the Craig’s list for CR as well. If you are selling in the Nuevo Arenal/Tilaran area, I can recommend Mike Neal and Rene Aoki through ricoremaxrealty.com and moranlakearenal.com. All have had US training in real estate and are excellent. They are also knowledgeable about attorneys and builders. Good luck![/quote]

I am advertizing a lot of our listings on craigslist and we get nothing but spam messages. I get a lot of serious inquiries from encuentra24 and similar pages. And off course over our own webpage.

[VictoriaLST]

In case you are wondering, Elizabeth works for Rico Remax Realty.

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