Samana is the real Caribbean, the Caribbean of 40 years ago, the Caribbean that awakens memories of a bygone era when each tropical shore, each bend in an old dirt road brought new adventure and a wondrous sense of anticipation exploring a developing region that had seemingly shielded itself from the stress and pressures of modern day life. Samana today is still that; a return to a simpler place and time where the magic of discovery still awaits our visitors.

With much of the peninsula still undeveloped, there’s plenty of available land for sale. Prices range from about a dollar per square meter for remote, countryside properties to over $100usd per square meter for prime, commercial-oceanfront property in populated areas. Oceanfront property in the more remote, undeveloped areas can run as little as $3usd per square meter, but it is usually without an accessible beach.
Other peninsula offerings include homes, villas, condominiums and business opportunities. Property is available from private sellers, real estate agents and agencies and project developers. In addition to advertised and listed availabilities, many non-listed properties have signs posted with appropriate contact information.
Foreign nationals may own property in the Dominican Republic but as in any real estate purchase anywhere, good legal representation is an absolute must. Land is secured by sovereign title and for tax purposes, it is generally better to create a Dominican corporation as the actual land purchaser and title holder.
• Acreage/Land
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• Homes, Condominiums and Villas

Many attorneys assist in real estate purchases and in the creation of corporations and corporate ownerships. Those listed here are in no way guaranteed or endorsed by SamanaOnline.
Tennant and Cooper
Freeport and Lucaya offices, beach front property, canal front realty, investment property.

Tennant and Cooper
Freeport and Lucaya offices, beach front property, canal front realty, investment property.

Caribic Estate International
We arrange land for projects in the Dominican Republic: Building land, farmland, beach - front properties and investment properties. Investment consulting.

Caribic Estate International
We arrange land for projects in the Dominican Republic: Building land, farmland, beach - front properties and investment properties. Investment consulting.

St Maarten Real Estate Investments
St Maarten Investments deals in investment properties such as hotels, resorts, large estates and vacation homes.

St Maarten Real Estate Investments
St Maarten Investments deals in investment properties such as hotels, resorts, large estates and vacation homes.

St Maarten Real Estate Investments
St Maarten Investments deals in investment properties such as hotels, resorts, large estates and vacation homes.

St Maarten Real Estate Investments
St Maarten Investments deals in investment properties such as hotels, resorts, large estates and vacation homes.

SeaJade Investments
Real estate sales and management company. Offers property listings that include, photos, description of the amenities, rental and sale prices, photo of principal and contact information.

SeaJade Investments
Real estate sales and management company. Offers property listings that include, photos, description of the amenities, rental and sale prices, photo of principal and contact information.
Select Caribbean Properties - http://www.selectcaribbean.com
Offers residential real estate and development lots for sale on the north coast between Puerto Plata and Nagua. Multilingual.
Casa Linda Residencial - http://www.casalindaonline.com
Villas and resort lots for rent/sale between Sosua and Cabarete. Includes prices, pictures and contact information.
Vistamar Real Estate - http://www.vistamar2000.com
Representing residential and business real estate including villa rentals between Puerto Plata and Nagua on the north coast.
American Realty DR - http://www.americanrealtydr.com
Offers country-wide real estate listings including villas, homes and condominiums. Includes photos, rates and property specifics.
Caribic Estate International - http://www.caribic-estate.com/
We arrange land for projects in the Dominican Republic: Building land, farmland, beach - front properties and investment properties. Investment consulting.
Island Realty - http://www.dr-samana.com
Representing residential and business real estate in the Samana Bay area; incl. maps and DR facts.
Juan Perdomo - Century 21 - http://www.juanperdomo.com
Local area real estate agent. Offers property listings with photos and prices, includes specials, notary and contact information.
DR Paradise - http://www.drparadise.com
Real estate in the Las Terrenas, Samana region of the Dominican Republic.
Palm Hills Real Estate, S.A. - http://www.karibik-invest.com/
Comprehensive listing of real estate on the North coast of the island. Offers a selection of properties and includes photos and prices.
Andresa S.A. - http://www.andresa.com/index.htm
Real estate and rentals in the Dominican Republic. Includes a forum and links.
Club Villa Ocho - http://www.villaocho.com
Time share and investment opportunities available. Offers photos of the property, amenities provided, rental rates and contact information.
Dominican Real Estate - http://www.dominican-realestate.com
Offers real estate in the on the island in seven Languages.
Orchid Bay Estates - http://www.orchidbay.com
Offering beachfront, oceanfront and ocean view residential lots and villas for sale in Cabrera de Nagua, close to Playa Grande golf course. Incl. prices, photos and lot layouts.
Caribbean Villas for Sale - http://www.caribbean-villas-for-sale.com/
Luxury villas for sale on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
RE/MAX Northcoast - http://www.remaxnorthcoast.com
Caribbean real-estate including luxury villas, homes, apartments, hotels, lots, farms, beaches, businesses, restaurants.
Nagel Real Estate - http://www.domrep-invest.com
Offering residential construction and sales. Provides photos and descriptions of properties for sale and lease with an online contact form.
Sosua Oceanview Villa - http://www.dominicanprop.com/
Offering a private villa for sale, five minutes from Sosua beach with ocean view and 10-year financing available.
Vision Trading, S. A. - http://www.vision-trading.com/
Offering real estate services from apartments to villas on the north coast of the Dominican Republic incl. immigration, residency, import/export services and more.
Haciendas El Choco - http://www.elchoco.com
Private community resort located in Sosua offering luxury villas for sale or rental. Incl. photos, pricing and local activities.
Josefina Covents & Associates - http://www.dominican-real-estate.com
Features properties for sale in the Sosua and Cabarete area. Includes property photos, description of amenities incldued, prices and contact information.
Atlantique Sud - http://www.atlantique-sud.com
Offers complete construction services, real estate and development property in the Samana Peninsula. Multi-lingual site.
Playa Grande Real Estate - http://www.playa-grande-real-estate.com
Luxury villa for sale on the north coast of the Dominican Republic by Playa Grande Golf Course. Includes pictures, pricing and contact info.
Acreare, S.A. - http://acreare.com
- Offers real estate and land for sale throughout the island. Multilingual, incl. photos, maps and pricing.
YEAR 2003
September
As per 22 September 2003, Lufthansa has once again achieved the first position on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and the pan European equivalent, DJSI-STOXX. Lufthansa has been able to maintain this leading position with respect to environmental impact since 1999.

August
The implementation of the CARIBIC system in a new AIRBUS A340-600 of Lufthansa makes excellent progress

What is the A340-600 ? This aircraft is a large capacity passenger jet for long range destinations (the 340-600 is ultra-long range). Lufthansa is acquiring several of these most modern aircraft, the design of which is based on the well proven A340 family. AIRBUS advertises with the A340-600 as follows: longer, larger, farther, faster, higher etc, and indeed this aircraft is a major step towards allowing more people to fly, with less environmental impact.

Lufthansa needs even less of an introduction then AIRBUS, being one of the major European Airlines, and probably being the most environmentally aware airline worldwide. As part of implementing their comprehensive and effective environmental policy, Lufthansa supports science, and as part thereof the project CARIBIC.

The CARIBIC team has been designing the aerodynamic aspects of the air inlet system. It is a major challenge to collect air, water vapor and in particular particles from a fast moving passenger jet, but Markus Hermann of the Institute for Tropospheric Research in Leipzig has completed all his complex calculations with success.

Lufthansa Technik (an independent company having the widest possible range in aircraft maintenance/upgrading/modifying) is in charge (Ralph Thaler) of actually making the modifications to the aircraft. All changes have to comply with strict regulations.

The present status is that the design of the inlet system has been completed by GCT.
AIRBUS in Hamburg and Bremen have helped Lufthansa Technik to obtain all necessary information about aerodynamics. In parallel to this, the tubes that transport the outside air from the air inlet system to the measurement container have been designed. The new measurement container is under construction by Enviscope.

YEAR 2002
Oct. 17
Detailed discussions between representatives of the CARIBIC science team and engineers from Lufthansa Technik took place in Hamburg on October 14 and 15th. The realization of CARIBIC-LUFTHANSA is now in its engineering phase. The calculations of the aerodynamics of the air inlet system as to its properties for sampling aerosol particles have been almost completed now. The inlet system will have a special shroud, which is a cylindrical "nose piece" that guides the airflow around the very small opening that collects the air for the aerosol particle size analysis and for aerosol particle collection. Most other calculations relate to the aerodynamics, stability and safety of the inlet system. At the same time work is in progress for building an entire new container.

Aug. 14
After several years of successful research flights with LTU International Airways, CARIBIC is having a pause. LTU has decommissioned the Boeing 747 used for CARIBIC, in May this year, and has upgraded its fleet with Airbus aircraft. The CARIBIC consortium has been reconsidering its position, leading to discussions with Lufthansa. We are pleased to announce that Lufthansa is prepared to support the CARIBIC atmospheric chemistry project, and will make an Airbus A340 aircraft available. The proximity to the Frankfurt airport, the determination of Lufthansa to be a most environmentally friendly airline, and its high professional standards all are major advantages for CARIBIC. We sincerely thank LTU for hosting CARIBIC during the first years of its development. The flow of scientific publications resulting from the project witnesses that much has been achieved for the good of mankind, by allowing more detailed studies of our changing global atmosphere.

Mar. 18
The equipment in the CARIBIC container has been extended considerably for a second time in the life of the project. A highly sensitive NO and NOy analyser (right arrow) from DLR, the German Air and Space Research Organization, has been incorporated. To make space available, the WAS, a 12 sample capacity Whole Air Sampler for large air samples (for isotopic analysis, specifically 14CO large amounts of air are needed) was removed. The WAS has been replaced with a 30 sample capacity Triggered Retrospective Air Collector, named "TRAC" (left arrow). This air sampler collects standard air samples of up to about 6 liter, for conventional trace gas analyses.
Two measurement flights into the Caribbean with the new configuration have been executed. The importance of the NO + NOy equipment is to gain much needed information about the nitrogen oxides budget. Nitrogen oxides intercepted at cruising altitude has originated from lightning, but also may originate from polluted surface air masses that have been lifted aloft. To study the partitioning between these sources is an important task. A first check showed that the equipment has been functioning well, and we congratulate Hans Schlager, Helmut Ziereis and Paul Stock with that achievement.

Feb. 27
Jens Mühle successfully passed his PhD examination on
" GC/MS-Meßsystem für Nicht-Methan-Kohlenwasserstoffe -
Spurengasuntersuchungen im Tropopausenbereich und in der maritimen Grenzschicht." at the
Fachbereich Chemie und Pharmazie der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz.

Caribic has made an excellent start into the new year, and we are presently conducting the second flight. The destination is in the Caribbean, like the previous set of flights. By this we will have almost one year of flights across the Atlantic. Interesting features are seen.

Stuart Penkett will present some CARIBIC halocarbon results (transatlantic flights) at the Eurotrac meeting in Garmisch Partenkirchen. Jens Mühle will present a poster, as will Peter Zimmermann, and the Caribic team. At the EGS an overview of CARIBIC data of relevance to the UTLS will be presented.

An important paper has been accepted by the Journal of Geophysical research.
" The budgets of O3 and CO in the upper troposphere: The CARIBIC aircraft results 1997-2001"
by Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, W.A.H. Asman, P.J. Crutzen, G. Heinrich, H. Fischer, J.W.M. Cuijpers, and P.F.J. van Velthoven, accepted in J. Geophys. Res., 16, 1373-1383, 1999.

Giorgios Papaspiropoulos has obtained a PhD degree at the University of Lund under the supervision of Bengt Martinsson, based on his analyses of aerosol particles from CARIBIC. These analyses are based on PIXE, proton induced x-ray excitation. It is an extremely sensitive method. For more info see literature list please.

The phase CARIBIC 3 has officially started, and as per 1.1.2002 CARIBIC is supported under grant EVK2-CT-2001-00101 from the European Commission.

Good progress has been made on the database at the German Climate Center in Hamburg (DKRZ). Peter Zimmerman will continue to work on this database.

YEAR 2001
December:
Andreas Zahn has acceptet a position in the division of Prof. Herbert Fischer at the Institute for Meteorology and Climate of the Research Center Karlsruhe. Andreas will therefore remain in CARIBIC.
He will be joined by Detlev Sprung.

Peter Zimmermann works on a CARIBIC database at DKRZ, on the homepage in cooperation with Jörg Dunker, and on a data visualization tool for CARIBIC.

Flight 36 Düsseldorf-Holguin is planned for June 24th . The average flight frequency so far is 1 flight per month.

Contract negotiations with the European Commission have started.

The German BMBF has funded CARIBIC within the framework of their AFO 2000 research program, for a period of 3 years.

LTU has opened new destinations for CARIBIC. From May 2001 onwards, the container will fly into the CARIBIC !!!

Bengt Martinsson and his team are analysing the elemental composition of aerosol collected by their filter based system. They now publish the results for the sulfur content in Geophysical Research Letters. Martinsson B.G., Papaspiropoulos G., Heintzenberg J. and Hermann M. (2001) Fine mode particulate sulphur in the tropopause region measured from intercontinental flights (CARIBIC) Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 1175-1178

We are looking for doctoral and post doctoral researchers to join the CARIBIC team. Equipment development, analyses, and interpretation of results.

On July 12th 19.30-20.15 and Friday July 13th, 10.30 the Bayrische Fernsehen will broadcast a program about ozone. Note that CARIBIC will feature in another program to be announced later.

YEAR 2000
The first flight to South Africa took place on May 18, 2000. High values for CO were measured between the equator and 40 °N over Africa. The number of fine aerosol particles counted were as high as in a city environment. This is the result of large scale rapid vertical transport of pollution caused by the burning of forest and savana.

The most recent flight to Africa from Munich to Windhoek and back took place on 27th and 28th July. The evaluation will either confirm the first flight or not. That is interesting and exciting to know, but in any case we will consolidate our database.

The last flight was to Male on 16th and 17th August and again a great success. We thank the "electric colleague" for repairing the generator and for making this flight posisble. But also for the good collaborate in general.

All systems worked well, and the duty cycle of CARIBIC approaches 92 % for this year. The last 12 flights are without any problems. Only the very first flight went wrong. We raise our flight frequency between two or three weeks.