Live your best "pura vida” in these scenic, real estate agent–recommended locations. Karla Walsh is a writer based in Des Moines, Iowa. She has written about travel, health, food, wine, psychology, ...

Here, in the lush mountains above the tiny village of Uvita, with its unique whale’s tail-shaped beach, a contemporary, glass-walled retreat within an exclusive guard-gated enclave offers total ...

Silvestre Nosara, a boutique resort and residential development on Costa Rica’s Gold Coast, just opened its doors in March of this year, and its prized penthouse is now up for sale. Nosara, a sleeping ...

While working on villas in Costa Rica, the Czech architect Dagmar Stepanova “fell in love” with the country and decided to live there in a hillside home partially open to the elements. Dagmar ...