Escazú House with Pool by the Country Club – Home, Office or B&B

A 4-bedroom, 5-bathroom house with a private pool, on a guarded private street in San Rafael de Escazú — across the street from the Costa Rica Country Club golf course and minutes from CIMA Hospital, Multiplaza and the best restaurants and bars in the Central Valley. Set up today as an office, furnished in the past as a family home, and laid out for a B&B: one property, three ways to use it.

US$460,000

This is a spacious single-family house on a quiet private street, with a guard at the entrance, a garage, and safe parking on the street outside. Behind the house is a private, walled garden with a kidney-shaped pool, a wide sun deck and tall tropical trees, and a river runs beside the property, so the view from the back is green rather than neighbours.

• A lot of about 800 m² (roughly 8,600 sq ft), with the house, pool and walled garden.
• 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms — almost every bedroom has a bathroom of its own.
• A glass-walled garden room facing the pool, big enough for a pool table, sofas and a dining table.
• High wooden ceilings and skylights throughout, so the house is full of natural light.
• A modern kitchen with a built-in oven, a French-door refrigerator, stone countertops, a breakfast bar, wood cabinetry and a glass-fronted pantry.
• A main bedroom with sliding glass doors straight out to the pool.
• Bathrooms with a freestanding soaking tub, walk-in showers and skylights, plus a wall of built-in wardrobes.
• Outdoors: dining under a pergola by the pool, a covered barbecue area, a shaded garden corner with a stone table, and a glass-roofed sunroom full of plants.
• Garage and covered parking, with safe street parking outside on the private, guarded street.

Furnished as a home, the garden room becomes the heart of the house: a pool table, sofas and a family dining table, all looking out over the pool. Bedrooms are quiet and bright, the main bedroom opens onto the pool deck, and the garden gives children room to play in a guarded street.

The house is in use as an office today, so it is already proven for it: a meeting room looking onto the pool, private offices, a den that works as a team room, a kitchen for staff, parking, and bathrooms throughout. An Escazú address beside the Country Club, minutes from Route 27, makes an impression on clients. The current tenant is leaving, so the buyer takes the house empty and ready for their own plans.

Four bedrooms with five bathrooms, a pool and garden, and a location next to the Country Club and CIMA Hospital make this a natural fit for a small bed-and-breakfast — for visitors on business in Escazú, families visiting relatives, or patients and their families coming for treatment at CIMA. As with any guest business in Costa Rica, operating a B&B needs the usual municipal licence, and we will help you check what applies before you buy.

The rooms as they are, without furniture, so you can picture your own plans.

Escazú is the most sought-after address in the Central Valley, and San Rafael is its heart. The house sits across the street from the Costa Rica Country Club golf course, so the outlook is open and green, and everything you need day to day is a few minutes away.

Hospital CIMA, one of Costa Rica's leading private hospitals, is about 10 minutes away, with its medical towers of specialists and clinics. For a family, a retiree or a B&B serving medical visitors, that is hard to beat.

Multiplaza Escazú, the country's best-known shopping mall, and Avenida Escazú, with its restaurants, cafés, cinema and shops, are each about 5 minutes away. The roads around San Rafael are lined with some of the best restaurants, cafés and bars in the Central Valley, from casual sodas to fine dining, plus supermarkets, banks, pharmacies, gyms and studios.

Escazú is home to several of Costa Rica's best-known international and bilingual schools, and many international companies and offices are based in Escazú and nearby Santa Ana. Route 27 is minutes away, taking you to the international airport, downtown San José, and the Pacific beaches at Jacó in a little over an hour.

Escazú is known across Costa Rica as the Ciudad de las Brujas, the "City of Witches", for the folk healers who lived in its hills. Old Escazú, with its church, plaza and ox-cart traditions, sits just up the road from the modern shops and restaurants, and the green hills above town are a short drive for hiking and views over the whole valley.

• Costa Rica Country Club: across the street
• Multiplaza Escazú and Avenida Escazú: about 5 minutes
• Hospital CIMA: about 10 minutes
• Downtown San José: about 20 minutes
• Juan Santamaría International Airport: about 25 to 35 minutes, depending on traffic
• Jacó and the Pacific beaches: about 1 hour 15 minutes