While some residential communities have suffered as a result of the real estate recession in the USA, Rancho Santana continues to thrive with new houses going up every month.
In addition to the healthy rate of single-family construction that is going on, there are five more neighborhoods currently underway: the Seagate condominiums, 24 oceanfront luxury condominiums with unobstructed views and beach access, well located just a few steps from the clubhouse and spa. The Seagate beach village, 90 oversized single-family home lots, starting at $46,000 that comes with a choice of three building plans for a beach cottage.
These sites are set in a village environment along the picturesque Limon River and within walking distance to the beach and all the Ranch Santana amenities.
Visto Del mar, a condo-hotel development consisting of110 income producing hillside cottages with sea and mountain views starting as low as $139,000.
The Estates, a privately gated, upscale community of 50one+ acre lots with spectacular ocean valley and mountain views, and finally a new 200 acre eco-friendly mountainside reserve which will feature 100 eco-friendly cabins in a natural tranquil forest environment with stunning panoramic views.
Rancho Santana was once my dream and the dream of my American and Nicaraguan partners. But now it’s a reality for more than 350 property owners and residents who have come here to take advantage of Nicaragua’s Riviera coast. Around us other, smaller developments have popped up in recent years. Together they have created thousands of jobs for local residents and pumped tens of millions of dollars into the Tola community and into Rivas and Managua, the two cities that most directly benefit from this new and exciting surge of development.
Ranch Santana retains all its immense natural beauty in developing our community; we took plans to ensure that the natural integrity of the land was never altered. The groomed dirt roads were groomed along the cow paths. The ravines and gullies that bring the rainwater to the sea are undisturbed. The hillsides have not been leveled to accommodate track housing, as has now been done elsewhere around here.
The monkeys and parrots are thriving. The turtles come to nest on our beaches. And the waves are still amazing.
The hiking, biking and horseback riding at Ranch Santana are spectacular. But the crown jewel of our bedizened community is out five beaches. Two of these beaches are beautiful hidden coves that can only be reached on foot from within the community. The other three beaches are wide with pinks sands and a beautiful shoreline.
Because of nearby Lake Nicaragua, these beaches enjoy offshore winds about 3330 days a year. This creates two constantly great surf breaks nearly all year long; one in Playa Santana and one in Playa Rosada.
From the south end of Ranch Santana surfers have access to two more great breaks, Panga drops and Colorado are just a short walk down the beach.
All around Ranch Santana you can see signs of what the future will bring. Many of the small, wooded framed shacks that once housed the local farming families, have being renovated or replaced entirely with brick and stucco homes, that are painted in bright colors and fronted by little gardens and and colorful native flowers. In the towns of La Salinas and Limon you will find dozens of new local restaurants, serving local residents along with visitors from Nicaragua and abroad.
The children at the local schools have new bags and uniforms (thanks to donations given by Rancho Santana’s development office and many of it’s residents)
Many of the employees at Ranch Santana receive free English training. And the Roberto Clemente Health Clinic established in 2002 by the developers of Rancho Santana, services more than 1000 patients a year, on 24/7 basis.
Rancho Santana is a proven community with a 10-year history of continual expansion and improvements and a record of servicing it’s ever- growing population of US Nicaraguan and international property owners.