Uruguay Coastal Properties

May happiness, health and prosperity (of course!) be with you in the New Year.

Thank you to our customers, friends and business associates for making our three years in Uruguay a great experience.

End of the year maintenance on our Savannah properties is keeping me buried. It’s been our best year ever, so there are no complaints.

Our year end report for Uruguay Coast Properties is coming up next month. We’ll give you a breakout of the niches we serve: Vacation Rentals in Piriapolis and beyond, the Luxury Real Estate and Property market, investment properties, and of course paid advertising for Uruguay Property as well as Real Estate.

See you next year!

Thanks,

We have a new client, Uruguay Property Tour.

There’s an interesting, creative twist in play with these folks; this group of project owners have developed a joint marketing vehicle in Uruguay Property Tour. Six different properties are being cooperatively marketed through this partnership.

To build on this unique approach the group offers all inclusive real estate tours to showcase the properties as well as the cultural assets of Uruguay.

Here’s a sketch of the different real estate projects:

Sugar Loaf Ocean Club and Spa is the premiere development in the Piriapolis area. Sugar Loaf is South America’s only gated community and resort to combine Western comfort, Latin warmth, and thousands of years of Eastern wisdom, presented in a harmonious environment, very much by design. The development has the most commanding water and mountain views in the country. (This is my personal opinion.)

Alexander, Tiburon, and Blue Blue are three of Punta del Estes’ most luxurious condominiums located on the Playa Brava water front. These top quality condos are complete with luxury finishes and amenities that include indoor swimming pools, gyms, saunas, game rooms, movie theaters, business centers, tennis courts, and BBQ areas.

Laguna Tranquila is a new community overlooking the Rocha Lagoon near La Paloma. Just a few kilometers from Jose Ignacio, La Paloma and Laguna Tranquila are the next happening thing on the Coast. The property will feature a boutique hotel and spa as well as 146 homes, fractionals, and home sites ranging from 2,500 square meters to over a hectare. The beautiful views of the lagoon, ocean, and La Paloma lighthouse are perfect for exploration by hiking, by horseback, or by bike.

Be sure to visit the site and learn more about the fun and entertaining parts of the tour.

Click here to enter the Uruguay Property Tour site.

For years I’ve put this off, but now is as good a time as any.

If you ask a question and want exposure as well as feedback, please don’t ask a question on a post that’s several months old. No one is likely to see it, and my response isn’t going to be seen either. If I may, I also suggest the questions be on-topic. For instance, questions about schools in Punta del Este don’t really fit with a real estate article. If you need help with this issue, send me an email; it’s a better forum.

And last of all, please be nice. There was a time when I allowed comments to be published that were unreasonably argumentative and/or really negative. This was more the case on Coastal Uruguay than here. At any rate, I don’t have the time or patients for this kind of stuff. Many questions don’t get published for these reasons.

Thanks for reading the articles and the good questions.

Steve

I get these great calls from readers all the time and never really talk about it.

Last week a reader in Sao Palo called, a really nice guy named Matt. It kinda brought to mind an important motivator for having this site. We’ve been up and running for a year and half now….meeting new people is perhaps the best part.

Matt is interested in buying property on the Coast, and called to find out how I felt about the various options and possible locations for his family’s vacation home. He had mostly reached a decision, but after talking with Piriapolis’ main Evangelist (that’d be me), he’s sold on our village. This guy would be a wonderful fit for what is developing into an eclectic little enclave.

While I hope we do business, meeting worldly, international personalities and introducing them to the town makes the work rewarding and worthwhile.

Stay Tuned!

Steve Bowman

I have a major consulting engagement that’s keeping me really busy. In addition, to being in the property rental business in the states and Uruguay, I’m also a business consultant. So if the articles seem a bit sparse for the next few weeks, don’t be concerned. I’ve got a full plate as we speak, so hang in there.

We have some good stuff on tap, economic observations/analysis, truly bizarre property sales stories, you name it.

Stay Tuned!

Steve

Chris and I in our courtyard, Piriapolis

We have a new advertising client coming on board with a residential project in La Paloma.

It’s a little early to talk about the project, except to say that La Paloma is well positioned in the last, inexpensive frontier on the Uruguay Coast, the Department of Rocha. La Paloma itself is the first logical stop because of its proximity to Punta del Este, about one hour by car. In addition, the town which has been established for many years, has most of the basics required for a comfortable community.

We’ll be following the progress of the project during the next year.

Stay Tuned!

Steve Bowman

The Advertising With Us Page is recently updated.

We’ve developed some new options for real estate Internet Marketing that are now spelled out. See if they make sense for your business or property.

Please check out the advertising page if you haven’t done so.

Thanks,

Uruguay Coastal Property went live on July 23rd, 2007.

We’ve been so preoccupied with our rental business here in Savannah, Ga, that the date slipped past without note. So let me take this opportunity to thank those of you that have done business with us in the last year, and our loyal readers.

Thank you for your business and your interest in property and real estate on the Coast of Uruguay.

Stay Tuned!

Steve Bowman

I feel like it would be fun to let readers in on the behind the blogisphere curtain. On the business side of it, you may see the advantage of  advertising with us if you have a unique property you want to sell that can be identified in a few key words.

This article is an example. The sole purpose is to maintain our ranking with the search engines for prized terms like luxury property uruguay. While I’m at it, let’s not forget luxury homes uruguay, mansions uruguay and estates uruguay. Oh, I almost failed to mention luxury real estate uruguay, the one set of key words that bedevils us. It is our business to make sure this happens, so there you have it.

Like so many other bloggers, I used to spend a lot of time weaving key words into articles to accomplish what’s been done with about 200 words. No more. Now I do a brief post dedicated to key words once in awhile, and the rest of the time I can focus on a good article without thinking about Google for one second.

Does this work? Yes sir’ee! We have first page rankings for all the above terms but one. A static website could take years to accomplish the same results and a clean sweep of all these terms is not likely.

What does it take to get to the juncture you’re seeing right now? Nine months to a year of work, averaging two articles per week, with stuff worth reading, in a clearly defined niche. That’s all.

Stay Tuned!

Steve Bowman