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27 guides · Covering all major Costa Rica real estate markets
Tamarindo is one of the most internationally recognized beach towns in Costa Rica — a working surf town with one of the longest-…
Uvita is the gateway to the South Pacific — a small, growing town anchored by Marino Ballena National Park and the Whale's Tail …
Ojochal is a small village on Costa Rica's South Pacific known for an unusually international population, a quietly excellent fo…
Dominical is the surf heart of Costa Rica's South Pacific — a small, gritty beach town with one of the most consistent waves in …
San Isidro del General is the largest town in southern Costa Rica — a working regional service hub in the Pérez Zeledón canton, …
Atenas is a small town in the western Central Valley known for one of the most temperate year-round climates in Costa Rica — a q…
Escazú is the upscale western canton of the San José metropolitan area — Costa Rica's most internationally developed urban subur…
Heredia is the historic 'City of Flowers' — a Central Valley province and canton north of San José with deep colonial roots, the…
Grecia is a traditional Costa Rican town in the western Central Valley — known for its distinctive red metal church, coffee-coun…
Pérez Zeledón — known to most Costa Ricans simply as San Isidro — is the largest inland town in southern Costa Rica, a working a…
Playas del Coco — known to most as just Coco — is one of the most accessible beach towns in Costa Rica, a short drive from Liber…
Hacienda Pinilla is a private master-planned beach community on the northwestern Pacific coast — 4,500 acres of beachfront, resi…
Playa Flamingo is one of the more upscale beach destinations on Costa Rica's Gold Coast — an established residential community w…
Playa Grande is a quiet residential beach community on the Gold Coast — known for the Las Baulas National Marine Park, leatherba…
Potrero is a quieter residential beach community on the Gold Coast — a working Costa Rican fishing village with a small but esta…
Playa Avellanas is a quiet surf-oriented residential community on the Gold Coast — known for consistent waves, the legendary Lol…
Las Catalinas is a master-planned car-free pedestrian beach town on the Gold Coast — a deliberate experiment in walkable urbanis…
Playa Conchal is a luxury resort-anchored residential community on the Gold Coast — known for the unique crushed-shell beach tha…
Jacó is the most accessible and developed beach town on Costa Rica's Central Pacific coast — a working town with a tourist econo…
Manuel Antonio is a hillside community on Costa Rica's central Pacific coast, anchored by the famous national park of the same n…
Quepos is the working town anchoring the central Pacific coast — a real Costa Rican community with full town services, a sportfi…
Playa Hermosa de Jacó is a residential surf-oriented community on the central Pacific coast just south of Jacó — known for consi…
La Fortuna is the gateway town to Arenal Volcano — a working Costa Rican town in the northern plains with a tourism economy buil…
Arenal — referring primarily to the Lake Arenal area and the communities around it (Nuevo Arenal, Tilarán, Tronadora) — is a dif…
Limón — formally Puerto Limón — is the largest city on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast and the canton seat of the central Limón can…
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