Is Your Costa Rican Property Title a Ticking Time Bomb?
Is your Costa Rican property title secure? A hidden annotation in the National Registry could expire, reverting ownership. Learn how to check your escritura online and protect your investment from this critical risk.
As a property owner in Costa Rica, you know the importance of having your title—your escritura—properly registered. But what if a hidden issue, a simple clerical error from years ago, could jeopardize your ownership today? There's a feature of the Costa Rican National Registry (Registro Nacional) that every property owner needs to understand: the expiration of annotations.
This isn't a new issue. In fact, this post is a modern update to a warning first published by Garland M. Baker B. in A.M. Costa Rica way back in 2003. While the major deadline he warned about has long passed, the fundamental risk is now a permanent part of the system.