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July 25st, 2007 Yalile Alpizar
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Yalile Alpizar, President of Costa Rica Luxury Estates
Joins FIABCI – USA Elite International Network

San José, Costa Rica, July 25st, 2007 … Yalile Alpizar, President of CostaRicaLuxuryEstates.Com in San José, Costa Rica has been accepted as a member of the International Real Estate Federation, commonly known by its French acronym, FIABCI. Founded in Paris in 1949, FIABCI links professionals in the real estate industry in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary network conducting business in countries around the world. The only international real estate organization with representation in the United Nations, FIABCI is considered by real estate professionals and those in affiliated industries to be the leading international real estate association worldwide.

“FIABCI opens doors around the world,” says Alpízar . Alpízar has been active in international transactions for 17 years in Costa Rica. She is the President at Costa Rica Luxury Estates specializing in high-end real estate and living in Costa Rica and her company´s website www.costaricaluxuryestates.com, is the number one source for luxury real estate search in Costa Rica. She is the pioneer luxury real estate expert of Costa Rica, exclusively dedicated to the upper-tier market. It was back in 1997 when the company she leads closed on a multi million deal by selling a 123 acres farm near the International Airport, to INTEL Corporation to install their Latin American Regional operations. This sole transaction changed the future of the whole country, by turning the eyes of foreign investors towards Costa Rica with a different vision, changing its typically agricultural economy to an economy oriented to high technology and tourism.

Alpízar joins a network of 5,000 FIABCI members in 57 countries worldwide specializing in brokerage, appraisal, counseling, development, financing and management. FIABCI holds “Special Consultative Status” at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations - a privilege reserved for international organizations that are recognized by the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations as having a special competence in their fields.

Alpízar is also the exclusive representative in Costa Rica of Who is Who in Luxury Real Estate, www.luxuryrealestate.com and The Board of Regents www.regents.com , the most recognized international networks of luxury real estate specialists.

For more information on FIABCI, visit www.fiabci.org or contact FIABCI-USA, 2000 N. 15th Street, Suite 101, Arlington, VA, 22201; 703-524-4279; fax 703-991-6256; info@fiabci-usa.com.