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The home in Grecia we are building is 1250 sq feet living space and has a 260 sq foot covered terrazzo/carport for a single vehicle. We are using all good quality 15cm block, plenty of “nice” windows, tile throughout, hot water throughout on demand and a structural roof material with vaulted ceilings. I looked hard for the materials and bought in bulk to get the best discount level. I have found that most of the supply shops offer some to a lot of wiggle room if you do leg work and get out there to pound the pavement. Right now I would budget 41-45 dollars a square foot for construction. We then paid about 800 dollars for our INS insurance and about 3000 dollars for the engineer/ architect/visados and permits. We are having a nice concrete with iron metal work, electric slider gate installed at the 26 meter with top of the property for around 5000 dollars. If you are interested in seeing this property the next time you are in Grecia contact me. I am a builder from Texas.
I am currently building a “spec home” in Grecia and have found prices with cement block and cement itself to be down a little while metal re-bar, roofing and other metals have fallen by more than 25%. The cost of labor has stayed pretty constant. I am a builder from Texas and am currently building a main floor 2 bed two full bath with a second floor third bed/office, american quality construction for about 26,000,000 colones total labor and materials. The cost of the architect/engineer with permits was about 1,600,000 colones and cost of INS insurance(required in CR) was about 800,000 colones. Hope this helps.
