By: Garland M. Baker B.
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Costa Rica is growing fast. Much of the growth is uncontrolled and can trample you if you’re not careful. Costa Rica has strong laws to protect intrinsic property rights, many of which are unknown and thus go unused here.
Powerful, little-known easement laws protect property owners, so they can control what is built around them. Much like the property rights law, certain easement rights can be acquired over time, like the easements of right-of-way, right-of-view and right-of-illumination. These and other important legal easement rights can also be transferred to another person acquiring a property, making real estate much more valuable in the right situations.
The right of easement is the real power a property owner has over someone else’s property to make a specific use of it. From the point of view of a real estate owner, an easement constitutes a lien that restricts its property rights.
