Building the home you
won’t pay for twice.
Custom homes for North Americans and Canadians putting down roots in Costa Ballena. A fixed price before the first shovel goes in the ground. A founder who’s on the job site, not just in the sales meeting. Twenty homes delivered, no half-finished ones left behind.
Fifteen years of building in America. Then one house of his own.
Justin Ledford spent fifteen years building in the United States — more than nine thousand projects between roofing and construction work before he ever laid a foundation in Costa Rica. In 2023 he moved to Costa Ballena and built his own home here. Neighbors started asking who did the work. Then they started asking if he’d build theirs.
That’s the whole origin story. No marketing department invented it. Twenty homes later, the same standard applies to every one of them: a fixed price, real materials that hold up to salt air and rainy season, and a builder who answers his own phone.
Real houses. Real job sites.
Every photograph below was taken on a Uvita Custom Homes project. This gallery pulls the strongest finished shots from across our completed builds, organized by space — not staged renderings, not stock photography.
Exteriors
COMPLETED BUILDS ACROSS COSTA BALLENA
Kitchens & Living
INTERIOR FINISHES ON COMPLETED BUILDS
Interiors — Bed, Bath & Details
Interior finishes on completed builds
Pools & Outdoor Living
Outdoor spaces on completed builds
Spa & Wellness
Sauna and cold plunge build
The fear we built this around.
Every buyer we’ve sat down with in Costa Ballena has the same quiet worry: paying twice. Getting a number at the start of a build and a different one by the end. We priced our process specifically to kill that fear — not to manage it, kill it.
Walk the Land
We walk your lot with you before anything is designed — slope, access, sun path, the realities of building in Costa Ballena’s terrain.
Design & Fixed Price
You get a complete design and a single, fixed contract price before construction starts. That number is the number.
Build
Construction with a crew who works for us directly, and a founder who’s reachable throughout — not handed off to a project manager you’ve never met.
Hand Over
You get keys to a finished home, not a punch list. Twenty completed builds, no half-finished houses left behind.
Questions buyers actually ask us.
What does a custom build actually cost in Costa Ballena?
The honest answer is that it depends on lot, finishes, and access — and anyone who quotes you a per-square-meter number before walking your land is guessing. We’ll give you a real number after we’ve seen the site, not before.
What actually survives salt air this close to the ocean?
Costa Ballena is brutal on the wrong fixings and the wrong exterior finishes. We’ve built here since 2023 and we know which materials hold up past year one — and which ones look fine at handover and fail by year three.
What do permits and water letters really do to a timeline?
Permitting in Costa Rica isn’t the paperwork exercise it looks like from the outside. We handle it directly and tell you honestly what it means for your timeline — not the optimistic version.
Talk to the person
who’ll build it.
- — A direct conversation with the founder, not a sales rep
- — A real look at what your project would cost, before you commit to anything
- — Straight answers about your land, your timeline, and your budget
- — We’ll tell you if we’re the wrong builder for your project