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What $500K, $1M, and $3M Buy in Reserva Conchal, Flamingo, and Las Catalinas

Active CR For Sale homes on November 6, 2026, set against three budgets in Reserva Conchal, Playa Flamingo, and Las Catalinas. Closest asks are labeled when a band is empty.

Active asks · November 6, 2026

Three budgets, three communities

Budget

$500K

Small condos, where one is listed

Budget

$1M

Larger condos in Conchal and Flamingo

Budget

$3M

Houses in Conchal. Gaps elsewhere.

The bars are the budgets, drawn to scale against $3 million. They are not a price index. The homes are in the sections below.
·Chris Spears·

Related reading: Reserva Conchal homes for sale.

On November 6, 2026 I set the active homes on this site in Reserva Conchal, Playa Flamingo, and Las Catalinas against three budgets buyers actually say out loud: about $500,000, about $1 million, and about $3 million.

These are asking prices. Pending, under contract, and sold homes are not used as examples. This is not a forecast, and it is not a town-versus-town lifestyle piece. The inventory picture is the Q4 2026 market snapshot. The outlook is the 2026 market update. The feel of the towns is Tamarindo, Flamingo, and Las Catalinas. The question here is narrower. If you came in with one of those three checks, what is actually for sale in each community today?

When a community has no active home near the number, I say so and show the closest active ask. The label on that home says closest. It does not pretend to be a match. Prices move. Ask me to confirm a home is still active before you treat a figure as something you can offer on.

About $500,000

Where a half million is a real ask

At this ask

Reserva Conchal

Malinche 111B

$499,000

1 bedroom condo inside the resort

At this ask

Playa Flamingo

Punta Plata 513

$499,000

Compact 2-bedroom condo

Closest, $129K above

Las Catalinas

Los Altos 301

$629,000

No active home at $500K

Las Catalinas starts higher. Los Altos is the closest active home, not a $500,000 purchase.

The Entry Band

About $500,000 is a small-condo budget in this set, and only where a residence is actually listed at that ask.

In Reserva Conchal the active match is Malinche 111B: condo, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, 431 square feet, asking $499,000. A second Malinche condo, 115B, is also asking $499,000, but it is pending, so it is not available and it is not an example here. The next active Conchal homes are a real step up in size. This band is a one-bedroom condo inside the resort, not a fairway house.

In Playa Flamingo the active match is Punta Plata 513: condo, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 760 square feet, asking $499,000. You are buying a compact two-bedroom condo in the Flamingo market. You are not buying a house, and you are not buying a front-row marina residence.

Las Catalinas has no active home at $500,000. The lowest active ask is Los Altos 301: condo, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,173 square feet, asking $629,000. That is $129,000 above the band. I am calling it the closest active ask, not a $500,000 purchase. The town has four active homes on this site, from $629,000 to $5,900,000. The car-free plan is on the Las Catalinas page, not restated here.

About $1 million

Condos that sit on either side of the number

Brackets $1M

Reserva Conchal

Carao T3-1

$976,000

Next over is Bougainvillea 4101 at $1,095,000

$10K under

Playa Flamingo

Splendor 360° 101

$990,000

Next ask is Flamingo Marina Cove 606 at $1,100,000

No home near $1M

Las Catalinas

25 Paseo del Mar

$1,699,000

$699K above the band. Not a match.

Carao is just under. Splendor is $10,000 under. Paseo del Mar is a different budget.

The Million-Dollar Band

Around $1 million, Conchal and Flamingo have active condos. Las Catalinas does not.

The closest active Conchal ask under $1 million is Carao T3-1: condo, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2,680 square feet, asking $976,000. The closest active ask over $1 million is Bougainvillea 4101: condo, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,099 square feet, asking $1,095,000. Bougainvillea 8101 is another active condo at $950,000, with the same 4-bedroom, 4-bath, 2,099-square-foot count as 4101. None of these is a single-family house. The first active house-scale home I see in Conchal is Sanara 20 at $1,500,000: new construction, 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,714 square feet, lot 1,762 m². That is half a million above this band, so it is the next kind of purchase, not a $1 million example. What the resort feels like day to day is in Living in Reserva Conchal.

In Flamingo, Splendor 360° 101 asks $990,000: condo, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,464 square feet. That is $10,000 under $1 million, the closest active ask. The next active step up is Flamingo Marina Cove 606 at $1,100,000: condo, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,636 square feet. It is the only active Flamingo home between $1 million and $2 million on this site.

Las Catalinas still has no active home near $1 million. After Los Altos at $629,000, the next active home is 25 Paseo del Mar at $1,699,000: townhome, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3,337 square feet, lot 294 m². That is $699,000 above $1 million. I will not stretch it into this band. It is the middle of a four-home list, and it is its own price.

About $3 million

Houses, and two communities without a match

Closest house

Reserva Conchal

Sauco 9

$3,050,000

A cluster of large resort houses

Just under

Playa Flamingo

Casa Las Brisas

$2,950,000

Altura del Mar, Splendor 502 is the next step, at $3,450,000

Closest, $990K above

Las Catalinas

Casa Alegria

$3,990,000

No active home at $3M

Sauco 9 is the closest Conchal house. Flamingo’s nearest house is just under. Casa Alegria is $990,000 above.

The Three-Million Band

This is where Conchal becomes a house. Flamingo’s closest houses sit just under the number. Las Catalinas does not have an active home here at all.

Sauco 9 asks $3,050,000: house, 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, 7,000 square feet, lot 1,704.50 m². That is the closest active Conchal ask to $3 million. Two more active houses sit in the same cluster. Sauco 10 asks $3,100,000: house, 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, 7,535 square feet, lot 1,555 m². Casa Bohemia Ceibo 5 asks $3,195,000: house, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 7,860 square feet, lot 1,230 m². At this budget you are comparing large houses inside the resort, not condos.

Flamingo has no active home asking $3 million. The closest is Casa Las Brisas at $2,950,000: house, 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 4,650 square feet, lot 904.18 m², Flamingo Northridge. Casa Mimosa is also asking $2,950,000: house, 9 bedrooms, 9.5 baths, living area not published on the listing, lot 1,613 m². The listing does not publish a living area, so this page does not invent one. The next active home above $3 million with a published living area is Altura del Mar, Splendor 502 at $3,450,000: condo, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 3,390 square feet. That is $450,000 above the band. It is the next step, not a $3 million stand-in.

Las Catalinas has no active home at $3 million. The closest active ask is Casa Alegria at $3,990,000: custom home, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, 4,301 square feet, lot 458 m². That is $990,000 above the band. The nearest active home below it is 25 Paseo del Mar at $1,699,000, which is farther from $3 million than Casa Alegria is. Neither one is a $3 million purchase. With four active homes, the gaps are the story.

November 6, 2026

How the cards should be read

1Active asks onlyPending and sold homes stay off the examples.

2Closest means a gapAn empty band is labeled. It is not rounded into a match.

3The ask is not the budgetDues, tax, and closing costs sit outside the price.

Counts and ranges match the community pages on CR For Sale for the same day.

How to Read These Examples

On November 6, 2026, Reserva Conchal had 25 active listings, from $499,000 to $8,200,000. Playa Flamingo had 10, from $499,000 to $5,995,000. Las Catalinas had 4, from $629,000 to $5,900,000. The homes above are examples inside those lists. Open the community page for everything else that was active the same day.

A few rules, so the cards do not get misread. The price is the asking price on an active listing, not a closed sale. “Closest” means I looked and the band was empty. Square feet and lot sizes are the figures on the listing. Where living area was blank, it stays blank. Dues, taxes, and closing costs are not inside the ask. Those budgets are the club and HOA guide, the closing-costs guide, and the tax and legal guide.

Before any wire, use the safe-buying guide and the due-diligence checklist. If you want the purchase steps from offer to registration, start with how to buy property in Costa Rica.

What I would do next is simple. Pick the band, open the two or three homes that actually match it, and tell me which room count you refuse to give up. I will tell you whether that home is still active and what else in the same community is close. The number on the listing is the start of the conversation, not the end of it.

Chris Spears

16+ years real estate experience on Costa Rica's Gold Coast

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