Had just about enough of winter for this year? Thinking about a warm, sunny stretch of sand and surf to wash away that ennui? Or dreaming about that same beach as place to live year-round?
Heck yeah! But where to find a place with the sandy shores you crave and that you can afford — that’s only one issue. There are plenty of others.
The experts at Realtor.com evaluated countries with plenty of beachfront but also relatively painless laws on foreign homebuyers. Then they looked at a number of other important issues, including safety, size of the coastline and the cost of living.
Jennifer Stevens, executive editor of the International Living website, commented:
My No. 1 caution is that [home-buying] laws in other countries do not look like the laws in the United States. You need to get a good attorney, who isn’t representing the seller, to lead you through the process.
Perhaps it goes without saying that no beach town in the United States made the list — they’re just too expensive.
Here’s the list, along with the country’s population and the length of its coastline.
- Zlatni Rat (Croatia)
> Population: 4.2 million
> Coastline: 3,626 miles - Myrtos Beach (Greece)
> Population: 11.2 million
> Coastline: 8,498 miles - Tulum (Mexico)
> Population: 129.2 million
> Coastline: 5,797 miles - Port Dickinson (Malaysia)
> Population: 31.6 million
> Coastline: 2,905 miles - Praia da Rocha (Portugal)
> Population: 10.3 million
> Coastline: 1,114 miles - Sunny Beach (Bulgaria)
> Population: 7.1 million
> Coastline: 220 miles - An Bang Beach (Vietnam)
> Population: 95.5 million
> Coastline: 2,140 miles - La Concha Beach (Spain)
> Population: 46.4 million
> Coastline: 3,085 miles - Dominical Beach (Costa Rica)
> Population: 4.9 million
> Coastline: 802 miles - Salinas (Ecuador)
> Population: 16.6 million
> Coastline: 1,390 miles
Visit Realtor.com for more details and comments about each town on this list.
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