Contemporary Riverfront Duplex with Infinity Pool, Uvita

A new contemporary duplex beside the Morete River in Uvita de Osa, on a flat, fully fenced 4,700 m² lot with a 10-metre infinity pool, a covered gazebo and private access to the river. Two complete homes, five bedrooms each with its own bathroom, and about 5 minutes by car to downtown Uvita and the beach at Playa Hermosa. Built by its owner, a Canadian contractor, and sold fully furnished and ready to move in.

US$1,399,999 (approx. ₡714,000,000). Fully furnished, turn-key.

The house is built as a duplex: an upper home and a lower home, each with its own kitchen and living area. That makes it easy to live here in different ways:

• Family living: parents in one home, grown children or grandparents in the other, sharing the pool, the gardens and the river.
• Live in one, rent the other: the owner reports the property is already rented on Airbnb at about US$500 a night.
• A vacation home with income: use it for the season and let it earn while you are away.
• Room to grow: the whole lot is flat and usable, and two building pads are already prepared near the river for guest houses, rental villas or a yoga platform.

• Infinity pool, 5 m × 10 m, with a natural Coralina stone deck
• Covered gazebo and a large outdoor terrace for entertaining
• Private access to the Morete River
• More than 400 flowering plants and palms, and 50 mature fruit trees
• Internal private roads, fully fenced and gated, with an electric entrance gate

• 5 bedrooms, each with its own ensuite bathroom
• Two chef's kitchens with Taj Mahal quartzite countertops
• Kitchens, doors, ceilings, cabinets and furniture in solid Guanacaste, Cenízaro and Laurel hardwood
• 4.5-metre ceilings and tinted windows throughout

• Reinforced concrete construction on the ground floor
• 5 inverter air-conditioning units and 17 ceiling fans with lights
• Insulated ceilings and two solar hot-water systems
• PEX plumbing and high-speed fibre-optic internet
• Two enclosed garages plus parking for about 15 cars
• Almost all-paved road access, no 4x4 needed

Uvita is the heart of Costa Rica's South Pacific coast, where the jungle runs down to the sea. It is the gateway to Marino Ballena National Park, famous for the "whale's tail" sandbar at Punta Uvita and for humpback whales that come to these waters twice a year. Waterfalls, surfing, sport fishing, snorkelling and quiet beaches are all close by.

Downtown Uvita has the everyday things you need: banks, supermarkets, restaurants, schools and a gym. The Costanera coastal highway runs north to Dominical and Quepos and south towards Ojochal, and many buyers here are North Americans and Europeans looking for a relaxed, green place to live by the ocean.