Luxury Defined 2016

whitePaper | February 16, 2023

We are a vertically integrated organization dedicated to the development, design, construction, management, and long-term ownership of inclusive living communities throughout Costa Rica. Our mission is to build resort-style living communities that value all its members and help them to meet their basic needs so that they can live with dignity, engage actively, and contribute to their community.

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

After the global financial crisis of 2008/9 (GFC), private markets have continued to expand at a tremendous pace as investors are increasingly attracted to the private asset class by a range of benefits such as better returns compared to traditional asset classes, a lower correlation with other assets and effective portfolio diversification. Spanning private equity, infrastructure, natural resources real estate and private credit, private markets have witnessed a period of phenomenal growth. Investors are committing to private markets in their search for stable income and/or superior returns.

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

Post-COVID, real estate teams around the world are confronting enormous uncertainties around building occupancy, new usage patterns, and changing employee expectations. Following the massive remote work experiment caused by the pandemic, most employees now want the option to work from home at least part of the time. And especially at the high end of the labor market, employees have never had more leverage than today.

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

Companies aiming to improve their workplaces are juggling a large set of competing demands for investment to support both on-site and remote work. With so many new priorities, a natural question to ask when evaluating any new product is how the returns on that investment (ROI) compare to those of other potential products. Smart workplace solutions, which encompass hardware and software solutions to optimize the physical workplace, streamline ways of working in the office, and create a positive workplace experience, have become increasingly cost-effective but can still represent a significant investment. Discussions of ROI for smart workplace technologies often stumble over the fact that the technologies have an extremely wide range of applications, not all of which will be relevant to every company, both because of differences in workplace cultures and existing technologies.

whitePaper | November 16, 2021

Construction technology has been relatively stagnant for many decades compared to other, equally crucial sectors. However, the current moment shows evidence for both progress in existing approaches.

whitePaper | September 15, 2022

With inflation hitting multi-decade highs, central banks in major developed markets have finally been forced to abandon the long-running era of easy monetary policy; interest rate hikes rather than cuts characterise the new regime. At such times, when government bonds are less of a safe haven, investments offering resilience and stable returns are hard to find. Real estate long income offers the potential to deliver on both counts.