We are a full-service, licensed real estate brokerage established in 2006. Today, we are proud to be recognized as the largest independent real estate company in Guanacaste, with five offices in Tamarindo, Playa Flamingo, Playas del Coco, Playa Negra, and Nosara, and a team of 40+ agents serving more than three hours of North Pacific coastline. In 2025, we publicly reported $116,467,783 in sales.
Clients choose us because they want more than access to listings. They want context. They want a team that understand the real differences between each beach town, city, community, and commercial opportunity, helping clients find the place, property, or investment that truly fits their lifestyle, business goals, and vision for life in Costa Rica. They want a brokerage that combines local knowledge, strong communication, professional standards, and marketing that helps properties stand out and helps buyers move forward with confidence.
“We help clients choose with clarity — not just a property, but a life.”
That is the heart of what we do. We are the largest independent real estate brokerage in the region, while remaining extremely dedicated and highly ethical. We are registered and licensed with either CRGAR or the CCCBR. We are legal residents, we speak English and Spanish, and we have recently expanded into our French-language division.
Together, we sell over $116 million a year and work to make every year a record year. Anyone who is buying or selling at the beach calls us.
We nurture dreams, enrich lives, and build community through hard work, superb teamwork, specialized expertise, and dedication to the client experience. We go above and beyond for our clients. In everything we do, our focus is on quality of service rather than quantity of inventory.
Established in 2006, our history in Costa Rica proves that we are always here for our clients. We are a family of curated talent rooted in common goals of quality, professionalism, and superior service that we enjoy sharing with our clients from all over the world.
We combine local knowledge, professional standards, and marketing reach so buyers can choose with clarity and sellers can reach the right audience.
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We understand the real differences between each beach town, city, community, and commercial opportunity, helping clients find the place, property, or investment that truly fits their lifestyle, business goals, and vision for life in Costa Rica. Not just listings, but the texture of everyday life in each area along the coast.
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Licensed, transparent, and ethically grounded. Our founder is a former president of CRGAR. Credentials here reflect real accountability in the market.
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Strong communication is a baseline, not a feature. Our clients receive consistent, proactive updates from first contact to closing, in the language they need.
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Dedicated listing pages, international exposure, social amplification, and a 993K-visitor website. Properties get seen by the buyers who matter most.
For Buyers
If you want to buy property in Costa Rica, we help you move beyond browsing and into real understanding. We guide you through community comparisons, property types, gated communities, luxury coastal markets, and the practical details that shape long-term fit. Whether you are looking for a full-time residence, a second home, or an investment property, our role is to help you choose with clarity.
For Sellers
If you want to sell property in Costa Rica, we offer strategic seller representation grounded in pricing, presentation, digital visibility, and brand reach. We provide dedicated listing pages, local and international exposure, social amplification, and proven sales results. Everything we do is designed to help the right buyers understand the value of your property.
For Investors
We also serve investors, developers, and commercial clients. Our portfolio includes development land, commercial properties, hospitality opportunities, and large-scale investment assets, which makes us a strong fit for clients evaluating opportunity beyond a traditional home search.
For Relocators
Relocation guidance is led by Rebecca Clower. She is the voice helping clients think through life in Costa Rica, from schools and healthcare to residency, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, and everyday adjustment. That makes us especially relevant for clients who are not only buying a property but also planning a move.
$116M+
2025 Sales Volume
$116,467,783 publicly reported
40+
Licensed Agents
Across five Guanacaste offices
993K
Annual Website Visitors
+ 15,940 email subscribers
143K
YouTube Subscribers
Featured on HGTV
Our offices and agents serve key markets across Costa Rica’s North Pacific, including Tamarindo, Playa Flamingo, Playas del Coco, Playa Hermosa, Playa Ocotal, Playa Avellanas, Playa Negra, Hacienda Pinilla, Reserva Conchal, Las Catalinas, and Nosara.
That regional footprint allows us to offer both breadth and depth, a larger view of the market paired with hyper-local insight into the communities our clients care about most.
We consistently emphasize ethics, transparency, licensing, legality, professionalism, and a strong client experience. Licensing and legal compliance are the foundation, not add-ons.
Our founder, Rebecca Clower, is a former president of CRGAR, and individual agent pages reference professional affiliations and registrations where applicable. For our clients, that translates into a higher-confidence experience in a market where local knowledge and accurate guidance matter.
We are a brand rooted in trust and integrity, in hyper-local knowledge, and in collaboration with each other and with other brokerages, so we can always do what is best for our clients.
Media & Digital Presence
We combine real estate representation with strong media visibility. We maintain an active YouTube presence, publish regular market and lifestyle content, and have been featured on HGTV and related real estate programming. That visibility supports our authority while also reinforcing our marketing strength.
Rebecca Clower was born to a Costa Rican-USA bicultural, bilingual family in Chicago and raised in Buffalo, NY; she is a dual citizen (Costa Rica & USA) and is fluent in Spanish, thanks both to her “Tica” (Costa Rican) mother’s influence and her own Spanish studies in Costa Rica before attending Arizona State University.
After selling millions of dollars in real estate and a successful career as a real estate investor in Tampa, Florida, Rebecca – her friends and clients call her Becky – relocated to Costa Rica in 2006. Here, she founded Blue Water Properties of Costa Rica, and later added Costa Rican real estate investor and developer to her résumé, with her highly successful Mango Walk, Punta Playa Heights, and Plaza Mar Azul projects already under her belt.
Becky is the host of Purchasing in Paradise, a new reality TV show, and has also been featured on several episodes of HGTV USA’s House Hunters International, Beachfront Bargain Hunt, Beach Around the World, and Live Here, Buy This. She is a licensed luxury realtor, the former President of CRGAR (Costa Rica Global Association of Realtors), a member of NAR (National Association of Realtors), a CIPS (Certified International Property Specialist), and an International Investor.
Giving Back to Our Community
We are lucky to call Costa Rica home. I am Becky Clower, founder and broker at Blue Water Properties. I have been coming to Costa Rica since 1978 and have seen amazing changes over the years.
While for us, Costa Rica is a magical place, we also realize there are many people who are less fortunate and need our help and support. We believe that nothing speaks louder than giving back.
Find answers to the most common questions about our brokerage, offices, services, and how we work with buyers, sellers, investors, and relocating families across Guanacaste.
Yes. Blue Water Properties publicly describes itself as a full-service, licensed real estate brokerage established in 2006. Its public About page also emphasizes licensing, transparency, legality, and professional standards.
Blue Water Properties currently lists offices in Tamarindo, Playa Flamingo, Playas del Coco, Playa Negra, and Nosara. Tamarindo is listed as the headquarters location.
The company serves more than three hours of coastline across Guanacaste’s North Pacific, including markets such as Papagayo, Playas del Coco, Playa Hermosa, Playa Ocotal, Playa Flamingo, Playa Conchal, Tamarindo, Hacienda Pinilla, Playa Negra, and Nosara.
Concession property is essentially the right to use and enjoy, for a specific time period (usually, 20 years), any property located within the public Maritime Zone. Essentially, concession property is a lease. As mentioned above, Costa Rican law dictates that all oceanfront (50 meters inland, as measured from high tide) is public land; land from 50 to 150 meters inland (200 meters, in total), as measured from high tide, is concession property.
There are some exceptions – and, yes, titled beachfront property occasionally becomes available – but they’re too many to get into here. So, we’ll finish by saying that foreigners have full and equal ownership rights to titled property and most concession property. The only caveat is for concession property held in a corporation: Foreigners may not own more than 50% of the shares in that corporation.
This is a big (and important) topic, we know. So, if you have additional questions about titled or concession property, please get in touch.
Yes. The company’s public site positions Blue Water Properties as a brokerage for residential buyers, luxury-home buyers, investors, and clients comparing communities and lifestyle options across Guanacaste.
As for the fees: In Costa Rica, closing costs are a function of transfer tax (1.5%), National Registry stamps (0.5%), documentary stamps, and a notary fee (typically, 1% to 1.25%). Additionally, you’ll pay 13% VAT (locally known as IVA) on all closing cost services (ex. the attorney’s services). While exact numbers will vary a bit, this closing cost calculator will give you an idea on the fees you can expect to pay.
Notably, the buyer always chooses the attorney for closing. The attorney must also be a notary public (a higher office, in Costa Rica).
According to the opinions of our clientele, buying a property in Costa Rica is a good investment since properties are sold for a fraction of what it would cost in the United States for something similar. Additionally, property taxes are reasonable and, whether you live in Costa Rica permanently or visit the country for vacation, you will be amazed by the abundant wonders Costa Rica has to offer.
Yes. The seller-facing pages highlight listing strategy, digital exposure, dedicated property pages, social promotion, and proven sales numbers, including the company’s publicly stated 2025 sales figure.
Relocation services are presented on the live site under Rebecca Clower, who speaks directly to clients about moving, residency, healthcare, schools, entrepreneurship, and everyday life in Costa Rica.
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