Casa El Santuario | Ocean View Home

The showers have ocean views. That detail says more about how this house was designed than any floor plan could. Casa El Santuario sits inside the gated community of Bellazo, on a ridge above the coast of Guanacaste’s Nicoya Peninsula, where the Pacific opens toward Nosara Bay on one side and the mountains rise on the other. Built in 2022, it was designed so that the view is never something you go looking for. It is simply there, in every room.

The Home

Casa El Santuario offers 195 m² (2,100 ft²) of interior living space on a 1,334 m² lot (14,359 ft², 0.33 acres). The layout includes two bedrooms and two bathrooms, organized around an open-concept kitchen and living area oriented toward the ocean views over Nosara Bay. The connection to the water continues into both bathrooms, where the showers are positioned to face the same view. Landscaped gardens surround the house, and a curated collection of art pieces placed throughout the property gives it a character that is specific to this home rather than borrowed from a catalog.

Outdoor Living

The property adds 74 m² (800 ft²) of outdoor living space, anchored by a 14-meter infinity pool that looks out over the ocean. A covered BBQ and dining area sits alongside it, built for long meals and for the hours when the coast turns gold. An open garage and a separate enclosed storage room handle a vehicle, equipment, and everything a coastal home accumulates.

The Location

Bellazo is a gated community with 24 hour security, located in the Cuajiniquil district of Guanacaste, on the Nicoya Peninsula, one of the world’s five certified Blue Zones. From the property you are 10 minutes from Ostional and its wildlife refuge, where the olive ridley turtles arrive to nest, 15 minutes from the white sand cove at San Juanillo, and 25 minutes from Nosara, the area’s hub for dining, wellness, and its established international community. Liberia International Airport, with direct flights from major cities in the United States and Canada, is approximately an hour and a half by car.

Why It Holds Value

Ocean view homes inside gated communities with real security are the most consistently demanded product on this coast, and the supply in the Ostional corridor is finite by geography. Guanacaste recorded 28% growth in real estate transactions in 2024, and this stretch of the peninsula still prices below the established markets further north. A 2022 build means the mechanical and structural life of the house is largely ahead of it, which matters on a coast where salt air sets the maintenance clock.

Good to Know

Costa Rica guarantees full property ownership rights to foreign buyers, a constitutional provision in place since 1870. The community operates with 24 hour security. The sale includes a 2017 Mitsubishi Montero Sport, so the property is ready to use from the first day. Price upon request.

Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a 14-meter infinity pool, and an ocean that shows up in every room of the house. Casa El Santuario was not built to look at the view. It was built to live inside it.