Real Estate
For $24 Million You Can Buy 3,300 Acres of Costa Rican Paradise
The property is located on the Osa Peninsula, which holds a staggering 2.5 percent of the planet’s biodiversity.
When Derek Ferguson traveled to Costa Rica in 1998 for a surfing trip, he met a man who’d built a house there 20 years earlier.
“By 1998 he was a kind of crazy person, living in the jungle,” Ferguson says, but the man was charming enough that, after some negotiation, Ferguson bought his house and land—about 17 acres—for $250,000. “That was considered quite a bit of money at the time,” he says.