Real Estate License #42
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Map & Reading Room
The following articles appeared in the Miami Herald International Edition and in Hoy, a Quito newspaper. They were written by David Morrill, Cuenca Real Estate partner, and by Deke Castleman, of www.AccessEcuador.com.
More articles about Cuenca in Conde Nast Traveller, the New Yorker, Luxury Latin America and U.S. News and World Report follow.
 Cuenca's Gringo Invasion
Although it has been called the "Gringo invasion" in newspaper and web articles, Cuenca's influx of foreign residents hardly represents the action of conquering hordes. There is, however, no denying the city's growing popularity among foreigners looking for a new home. Read the full article...
The Panama Hat Trade
Its one of the world's classic riddles and abiding ironies that Panama hats are, and have always been, made in Ecuador. Of course, as almost everyone now knows, starting as far back as the 1830s, Ecuador's sombreros de paja toquilla, or "hats of toquilla straw," were originally marketed in Panama, the main route for travelers between the coasts of North America. Read the full article...
Taking the Bus in Cuenca
Among the first sights noticed by newcomers to Cuenca, along with the billowing white clouds, the rolling green hills, and the red-tile roofs, are the big blue buses that spew black fumes into the otherwise colorless alpine air. Read the full article...
Cuenca property values have risen steadily over the past six to seven years, bucking the down-trend in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world, including many Latin American countries. Annual real estate appreciation is running 8% to 12%, according to local agents. Appreciation is even stronger for raw land in nearby areas such as Challuabamba, San Joaquin and Yunguilla where annual increases of 15% and more are not uncommon. Read the full article...
Heading southwest from Cuenca on the road to Loja and Machala, you leave the city behind fairly quickly and enter the ranch country of the Tarqui Valley, with cattle grazing on rich green grass and the Andes towering over everything. Read the full article...
Ceramicist Eduardo Segovia
In his 60-year career, Segovia's work has encompassed a stunning range of styles and themes, from the Incan and Aztec and other pre-Columbian cultures to African, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian, from the classical to the modern, from the whimsical to the serious. Read the full article...
Cuenca is Home to World Class Orchids
Situated on the Cuenca side of the city, Ecuagenera was founded in the 1950s by Angel Andreetta, an Italian-born priest who arrived to set up a Salesian mission. As a hobby, he began researching and collecting orchid species he found in the area. Thanks to his work, in 1968 Ecuador participated for the first time in a world exhibition of orchids in Colombia. Read the full article...
Cuenca's Christmas Parade is Ecuador's Best
To tourists and foreign residents, Cuenca's Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade, or Passing of the Child, is a colorful, often bizarre, mixture of the sacred and the profane. To locals, it is a time-honored Christian festival of thanksgiving and homage that combines Catholic and indigenous traditions. Everyone agrees that its a lot of fun. Read the full article...
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