Celebrities investing in Costa Rica
Among the many celebrities investing in Costa Rica, Mel Gibson is rated as one of the largest real estate investors in the little Central American country. When I met him some years ago, he was scouting the country in shorts and a T shirt, in search of a luxury home on the beach... literally he went through the Pacific Ocean coastline, beach after beach, until he found his private paradise at Hacienda Dorada... but that wasn´t enough! Mel has bought property in different parts of the country and the news say he is planning on developing a filming industry sometime in the future. The newspaper La Republica in its edition of October 3rd indicated that he has invested about $100 million in the purchase of real estate in different parts of Costa Rica. One of the houses we showed him is located on a hilltop, overlooking the famous beaches of Mal Pais and Santa Teresa. He fell in love with the views and bought a magnificent hilltop lot where he just finished building the biggest and mos...