Vancouver Real estate sounds busy according to my assistants; and the same is true for Nicaragua real estate-especially Nicaragu

So for more on what we were doing in Nicaragua.  I have a listing for several beachfront lots in the area just south of Leon (a lovely colonial style university town).  Myself and friends bought properties there.  It is an interesting strip of beachfront with 2 miles of it being developed by 2 different groups of developers from the Vancouver area and 2 miles being developed by a partnership between a guy from Seattle and a Nicaraguan. And then there is our one mile strip of land, divided into 23 lots with 100 foot frontage by 200 foot depth (see Nicaragua webpage on my www.waterfrontvancouver.ca or www.vancouverviews.ca sites).  The whole strip is fronted by the Pacific ocean and backs up against an estuary.  It is really lovely and even when we were there in the rainy season (Sept) the road was passable; this month you could see the road had suffered from the rains but it was still no problem to get to our beach.  The beach itself is typical Pacific ocean front-more grey than white sand but warm water and turtles who come up and lay eggs on the beach at night....we just need to get some enforcement happening so that the eggs are allowed to hatch rather than being collected and eaten!

 

In addition to visiting our properties by Leon, we also went to see the other side of Laguna Apoyo.  In September I had seen the more developed side (where people are now asking $500,000 USD for some of the waterfront-crazy in my opinion so we'll see if they actually get that kind of price).  Anyhow, the undeveloped side has a very decent road leading down to the properties and plans by some to build modest accommodations there.  For example my friend David owns a large lot on which he plans to build 4 houses-all on tiers so all have views and the lot right on the lake will be common property.  His neighbour is a guy from Toronto area (whose name escapes me) who plans to build a small hotel of about 6 rooms on his four lots.  Further down the way, there is a plan for a significantly larger development (hence the nice road) which should improve infrastructure there.  While we were there, in addition to testing out the lovely lake, we were lucky enough to see several monkeys in the trees. The last time we were there, one of the purchasers in our group was desperate to see a monkey-unfortunately we couldn't find any-other than the now famous "dog monkey" spotted by Peter himself.  The biggest benefit of Laguna Apoyo I think is that in addition to being a lovely lake, nicer than Lake Nicaragua in my opinion, it is also very close to Granada.  Granada is a great town with everything you really need-as long as you don't need sushi, Macdonalds or Pizza Hut-for those you need to go to Managua.