A 380-acre, 73-property community on the ridge between Playa Grande and Playa Conchal — one of the lowest-density gated communities on this coast.
Las Ventanas is the low-density outlier of this coast: 380 acres holding just 73 properties, spread across nine small subdivisions on the panoramic ridge between Playa Grande and Playa Conchal.
That ratio - over five acres of land per property - is the whole story. The quintas of La Sabana run 1.2 to 2.26 acres each. El Roble's sites look straight out over the Catalinas islands. The remaining subdivisions - Caracara, El Camino, Catalinas, Altamar, Jaguarundi, San Pedro and Cenizaros - stair-step across the ridge, each holding just a handful of properties. Around seventy people live here full-time, which gives Ventanas something rare among view communities: an actual neighborhood, not a rental compound.
The community runs its own concessioned water well - a far bigger deal in seasonally dry Guanacaste than most buyers realize - and the water cost is folded into the HOA. Local brokerages publish fees around $388 per month including water (verify current figures; fees change). Roads are paved throughout, the gate is staffed 24/7, and the infrastructure was clearly built for the long haul rather than the sales brochure.
The west-facing clubhouse sits in La Sabana near the top of Cerro Almendro: an infinity pool, sunset views over the Pacific, and the community's natural gathering point. Around it are a tennis and pickleball court, a soccer field, a skate park and playground, more than five kilometers of jungle trails, and a community organic garden planted with some 150 fruiting trees plus medicinal plants and herbs. For a 73-property community, that is an unusually complete list.
Playa Grande - one of Costa Rica's most consistent surf beaches, inside the Las Baulas National Marine Park - is minutes in one direction; Playa Conchal's white shell sand is minutes in the other. Liberia airport is about 50 minutes. You sit on elevated land between two of the coast's marquee beaches while paying ridge-land prices rather than beachfront ones.
Inventory is a mix of finished hillside homes, quintas with standing houses, and raw acreage lots across the nine subdivisions. With only 73 properties in existence, listings are structurally scarce - at any given time a handful of options exist, which is exactly why owners here tend to hold. Most purchases are still lot-plus-build, with community design guidelines to follow.
Buyers who want land, views and quiet over walk-to-dinner convenience - especially full-time relocators, families (the skate park, playground and garden are used daily), and builders who want real acreage without ranch-level remoteness.
You will drive for everything: beaches, groceries, restaurants. Building here means working within the community's design guidelines and managing a construction project remotely or in person. And low density cuts both ways - fewer neighbors also means fewer comparables when you eventually sell, so pricing a resale takes more work.
Mar Vista for a larger community with similar lot sizes and more amenities, Playa Grande town for surf-first living closer to the sand, Hacienda Pinilla for amenities at scale.
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