🌊 STILL AVAILABLE: $285,000 DIRECT BEACHFRONT HOME | 4BR/4BA + POOL | PLAYA TIVIVES, COSTA RICA

Yes, she is still available.
There have been plenty of messages and interested buyers, but no offers on the table yet. Until somebody puts it in writing, my job is to keep showing her off.
Still beachfront. Still four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a private pool. Still $285,000.
And still waiting for someone to stop flirting and commit. 💍

🏡 ABOUT THE HOUSE
She is a traditional Costa Rican beach house, not a brand-new designer villa with a drone circling an infinity pool.
If she were, we would not be having a $285,000 conversation. 🤷🏻‍♀️
She is fully furnished, completely habitable and move-in ready. She has great bones, plenty of space, an incredible location and tons of potential.
Fresh paint, lighter coastal colors, updated furniture and a few cosmetic improvements could give this girl a very serious glow-up.

🌴 WHAT YOU GET
• $285,000 USD
• Direct beachfront
• Approximately 700 m² assigned parcel
• Approximately 240 m² / 2,583 sq. ft. of construction
• Four bedrooms
• Four bathrooms
• Two bedrooms and two bathrooms downstairs
• Two bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs
• Private swimming pool
• Covered terrace
• Ocean-view balcony
• Rancho and BBQ area
• Granite countertops
• Direct beach access
• Fully furnished
• Gated community with 24/7 security
• Move-in ready
• Airbnb and short-term rentals currently allowed

🏘️ HOW OWNERSHIP WORKS IN COOPETIVIVES

Let’s make this much less complicated than Facebook sometimes likes to make it. 👀
This is a concession property.
Coopetivives is one of the oldest concession communities in Costa Rica. Its original arrangement existed before the current Zona Marítimo Terrestre law.
When you purchase inside Coopetivives, you become a member of the cooperative. You acquire the house and improvements, the rights associated with that specific parcel and the corresponding shares in the cooperative.

The concession is held and renewed collectively through Coopetivives. Every homeowner does not have to renew a separate concession individually.
Is it individually titled, fee-simple property?
No.
Is it some mysterious arrangement invented last Tuesday?
Also no. 🙃

It is a long-established cooperative structure. An independent Costa Rican attorney reviews the concession, cooperative shares, parcel assignment and transfer documents during due diligence.
Roughly 90% of Costa Rica’s beachfront falls under some form of concession regime. Many of the beautiful beachfront resorts people visit and luxury beachfront homes they rent operate on concession land too.
It is not something new or automatically something to fear.
If you only want individually titled property, I also have titled beachfront and near-beach options available. Just understand that titled beachfront is much harder to find, and the price is normally considerably higher.

💰 THE APPROXIMATELY $300 MONTHLY COMMUNITY FEE
Yes, there is one.
Before anybody starts hyperventilating over the word “HOA,” here is what it includes:
• Municipal concession fee or canon
• Annual property-related taxes
• 24/7 gated security
• Internal road maintenance
• Beach cleaning and maintenance
• Garbage collection
• Common-area maintenance
• Community administration

When you add everything together, approximately $300 per month is not quite as scandalous as it initially sounds.

🎨 CONDITION, FURNITURE AND AIR CONDITIONING
Is she move-in ready?
Yes.
Is she newly renovated?
No.
Does she currently have air conditioning?
Also no.

Mini-split AC units can be installed in the bedrooms and living area without redesigning the entire house.
The furniture is included. Keep what you like, replace what you do not and create the bright coastal transformation you have been saving on Pinterest.
You can use the house immediately and update it at your own pace.

📊 AIRBNB AND SHORT-TERM RENTALS
Yes, short-term rentals are currently allowed inside Coopetivives.
However, this house is used primarily as a private vacation home for the family. It has not been operated as a commercial Airbnb business.
If you are expecting historical occupancy rates, income statements, P&Ls or impressive ROI spreadsheets, they do not exist.
You will need to run your own projections based on your renovation plans, management, pricing and operating expenses.
The potential is there.
The imaginary numbers are not. 📉

🌅 LET’S TALK ABOUT THE BEACH
Is Playa Tivives the most spectacular beach in Costa Rica?
No.
You are not getting powdery white sand and turquoise water that looks like someone increased the saturation on Instagram.

What you are getting is a peaceful Pacific beach, incredible sunsets, fishing, ocean breezes, scarlet macaws, monkeys, beach walks and the ocean literally outside your backyard.

At $285,000, I think the Pacific can be forgiven for not looking like a Caribbean screensaver. 🌴
When you feel like being bougie, drive approximately 45 minutes.
You will find Los Sueños Marina and golf in Herradura, beautiful white-sand beaches around Punta Leona, restaurants, shopping, surfing and all the activity of Jacó less than an hour away.

📍 LOCATION
• Approximately 90 minutes from SJO International Airport
• Approximately 15 minutes from Route 27
• Less than 25 minutes from Orotina or Puntarenas
• Supermarkets, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, schools and restaurants nearby
• Herradura, Punta Leona and Jacó less than one hour away
💵 PRICE: $285,000 USD
The asking price is relatively firm.
No seller financing is available.

She is not perfect, but she offers space, location and a ridiculous amount of potential.
Finding four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a private pool and direct Pacific beachfront for under $300,000 is becoming extremely difficult in Costa Rica.