BuenaTierra Eco-Realty is a sustainable and socially responsible real estate and land management company focused exclusively on Costa Rica and Latin American properties and investment opportunities.
With a triple bottom line approach, BuenaTierra Eco-Realty does business in an interconnected world, where social, environmental, and financial benefits are shared. People, Planet, Profits.
BuenaTierra provides a range of professional consulting & facilitating services, including guided real estate & investment research trips to Latin America (specifically to Costa Rica, Ecuador, Uruguay and Argentina), to helping our clients buy, develop, maintain and/or sell their real estate properties and investments, and connecting them with reputable law firms and other local partnerships to support their investment and short and long-term income strategies.
Meet the Team:
Harlow Salvador Newton
CEO / Chief Facilitator
As a consultant/facilitator/developer/producer, Harlow provides his clients with a range of professional & consulting services. Harlow is a bilingual North American/Costa Rican who has spent most of his life living and doing business in Latin America.
HARLOW'S BIO
Kris Ingebretsen
General Contractor & Development Advisor
A Native Bay Area general contractor with more than 20 years of certified U.S. standards building experience, from general carpentry, to electrical/plumbing, to garden and stonework landscaping. Kris is your Home Depot guy, with a down-to-earth honest work ethic.
From November - February each year, Kris is available for construction and development projects in Costa Rica.
Tamara Saenz Newton
Costa Rica General Manager
Tamara, Harlow's sister, decided at the age of 19 that she was going to raise her son Judah in a peaceful place and moved to Costa Rica when Judah was 6-months old. Now Tamara is raising her three beautiful children, Judah, Maryalba and Salvador in her country farm and home which she built in 2004, works part-time for BuenaTierra, and runs Tres Semillas Mountain Restaurant, serving Organic Home Grown Costa Rican country-style nourishing meals.
Didier "Gerardo" Saenz
Costa Rica Local Facilitator & Advisor
Gerardo is BuenaTierra's chief local facilitator, advisor and go-to guy in our region of focus in Costa Rica.
Five Generations in Costa Rica & Latin America
The Newton family has been living and doing business in Costa Rica & Latin America for five generations. In the early 1900's, great-grandfather Harlow Arthur Newton Sr. worked in the copper mines of Chile as a consultant for Eternal Westinghouse.
Thirty years later, his son, Harlow Franklin Newton Sr. (pictured on the right on a CAT) arrived in Costa Rica in the late 1930's, an entrepreneur and businessman who introduced and imported some of the very first commercial Caterpillar tractors and heavy equipment machinery into Costa Rica and other countries in Central America.
Having partnered with Caterpillar and other machinery companies back in the U.S., grandfather Harlow Sr. opened and operated dealerships and equipment rentals in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Honduras, with the names Costa Rica Machinery, Salvador Machinery, and Honduras Machinery.
Harlow Jr. was born in San Jose, Costa Rica and raised in Florida and Central America, and returned to El Salvador to manage an ALCOA company and served two terms as the President of the American Chamber of Commerce of El Salvador, and one term as the Vice-President for all of Latin America before he retired back to Costa Rica.
Now Harlow III (Salvador) is taking the Newton Legacy to greener pastures with a more sustainable and socially responsible approach to tourism, hospitality and real estate/land development with his Latin American companies and projects.
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