Permit Costs and Fees in Costa Rica

Cost of Plans, Permits and Government Fees in [%] of the construction or CIFA value :

Design Cost:

• Architecture Fee (2% of CIFA)
• Building Plans and Technical specification (4% of CIFA)
• Construction Estimate (1.5% - 2% of CIFA)

Permits

• CIFA or college of Engineers - (0.25% of CIFA)
• Municipality (1% of CIFA)

Insurance:

• Caja or Social Security: (34% of worker salary during the construction)
• I.N.S or Instituto National de Seguros: (1.239% of CIFA)

Inspection or technical direction:

• weekly visit of Engineer (5% of CIFA)

Soil Tests

• Castro de la Torre about ($1500)
• Vieto about ($1000)

Those are the values recommended by the College of Engineers CIFA. We will try to bring those costs down as much as possible which depends a lot on the value the CIFA finds for the property.