One of the last high-elevation homesites left in Costa Verde Estates with a direct line to the Whale's Tail. At 1.71 acres it's a building lot rather than a farm — sized for a serious house with room around it, inside a community that's already built out its infrastructure.
Why This Lot
Elevation is what you're buying. The Whale's Tail view from this position is the one that photographs, and it's the reason finished homes on this ridge have traded as high as $8M. Buying the land and building lets you reach that tier without paying a finished-home premium — provided you're willing to run a build.
Already Groundworked
Soil studies and architectural plans by Studio Saxe are available on request. That matters more than it sounds: it removes the two slowest steps at the front of a Costa Rica build and tells you the site has already been assessed by people who know how to work it.
The Community
Costa Verde brings 24/7 security, tennis, a gym, and an emergency helicopter pad, with well-maintained internal roads. Halfway down the mountain there's a health food store, restaurants, and a spa — close enough that building here doesn't mean isolating yourself.
If you're weighing building versus buying in Escaleras, this is a useful lot to look at. I can walk you through both sides of that math.
Community dues are charged annually — the same for a parcel as for a built home — and cover the 24-hour guarded gate, the fitness center, tennis court (lined for pickleball), the ocean-view park and pavilion, and the helipad. They also cover all common-area landscaping and full maintenance of the internal roads twice a year, which keeps them the best-kept in the zone. Water is the unusual part: supply comes through the Puerto Nuevo ASADA, but the community maintains and manages the system itself, with its own on-site staff — which buys faster service and maintenance that actually stays current. See the water, access and title guide for why that matters here.
