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Punta Pacífica 2026 —
decoded.

The glass peninsula read tower by tower: asking runs 22% above what actually closes, the per-meter ladder spans $1,400 to $2,529, and three and a half years of inventory sit on the shelf. Free, no email required.

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Residential towers

102

Owner-to-owner sales, 2025

$1,838/m²

Typical owner-to-owner close

+22%

Asking over closing

№ 03

Inventory / Punta Pacífica

3.5 yrs

of standing inventory

The finished island: how Punta Pacífica negotiates now

Punta Pacífica delivered its last tower in 2021. Now ~315 distinct apartments wait against 89 owner-to-owner closings a year — a 3.5-year shelf, mapped tower by tower by lakilé, and what it does to a negotiation.

6 min readJuly 15, 2026

Buying Right / Punta Pacífica

47%

of embargos reached auction

The downside ledger

Since 2020, 97 Punta Pacífica titles have carried an embargo and 47% went on to judicial auction. How to read embargos, auctions and open dockets — tower by tower — before you buy. By lakilé.

7 min readJuly 15, 2026

Who Holds the Point / Punta Pacífica

85%

of $1M+ buyers are structures

Structures on the point

Above $1M, 85% of Punta Pacífica's owner-to-owner buyers since 2022 were companies or foundations — 17 of 20 deeds. What a Panamanian private-interest foundation is, why the peninsula is held this way, and what it changes when the buyer is you. By lakilé.

7 min readJuly 15, 2026

Price Discipline / Costa del Este

12%

asking vs closing, per m²

What Costa del Este asks, and what it closes

What sellers ask vs what buyers pay in Costa del Este: a 12% gap per square meter once you match on unit size, not the 33% the dollar figures suggest. Mapped building by building by lakilé.

6 min readJune 5, 2026

Neighborhood Anatomy / Costa del Este

1 in 5

delivered buildings, barely any resales

Costa del Este's quiet half

Roughly 1 in 5 delivered Costa del Este buildings registered fewer than 10 market events across three full years. Most of them are families who moved in and stayed. The difference matters if you're buying.

5 min readJune 5, 2026

Who Lives Here / Bella Vista

43%

residents born abroad

The whole world lives in Bella Vista

Forty-three percent of Bella Vista was born abroad — Venezuelans, Colombians, Spaniards, Americans and more — the most international district in central Panama City. A renter's market, half its title held by companies. Who lives here shapes what it costs. By lakilé.

7 min readJune 19, 2026

Market Signals / Bella Vista

1 in 3

homes sitting empty

The empty city: what a third of Bella Vista's dark windows mean

Roughly one home in three sits empty in Bella Vista, yet barely 500 apartments sell a year. That gap is parked money. Read from the registry by lakilé.

6 min readJune 19, 2026

Buying Right / Bella Vista

2.8×

price spread inside one barrio

Pick the tower, not the postcode

In Bella Vista the building you choose matters more than the neighborhood name. Inside one barrio, typical prices run 2.8× apart — and newer doesn't mean pricier. Mapped tower by tower by lakilé.

7 min readJune 19, 2026

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