Snug against the shore in its own secluded bay along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast is the placid resort town of Las Catalinas. Actually, it’s not a resort and it’s not a town, not in the ...

Las Catalinas is a master-planned community whose first houses and commercial buildings were completed in 2011. The town’s developers originally purchased 1,200 acres of land, but plan to leave ...

According to Las Catalinas, construction volume is growing at a rate of 80,000 square feet per year. Housing prices range from $300,000 for a 350-square-foot studio apartment to $3 million for a ...

Las Catalinas: An idyllic, New Urbanist beach town emerges in Costa Rica for tourists and instant locals The laid-back Costa Rican town on the rise is the stuff of screensaver dreams 1 / 25 ...

Though we live in slushy New York City, my partner Julia and I are both allergic to cold weather, so we jumped at the chance to pack our bags for Costa Rica and visit Las Catalinas, a two-square ...