Methodology: what our numbers mean

What every figure promises

Five commitments, on every page and in every report.

Registered sales, not asking prices. A price on this site is what someone paid, taken from a registered sale. What a seller asks is shown as an asking price and never mixed into a sale figure.
Medians, never averages. One outsized sale drags an average somewhere the market never went.
Like with like. A building's figures leave out sales that were not negotiated between independent parties, and compare apartments of a similar size.
A missing price stays missing. When a record states no amount, we publish none, and we never estimate one to fill a gap or grow a total.
Read by a person. Every report with written analysis is read by a person before it reaches you. One that fails that read is not sent.

The numbers on the home page are narrower than they look, on purpose.

Buildings are the ones whose records we have matched and checked, not every building standing or every one somebody has advertised. Sales are registered sales, each counted once. Volume is the prices written on those sales, added up.
None of the three counts a listing or an asking price.

You can always tell which of the two you are reading.

Fact: sale prices, dates, mortgages and the chain of owners, each traced to a document registered at Panama's Registro Público.
Estimate: fair value, offer and asking ranges, rental yield. These are our models, built on verified sales and labeled as estimates wherever they appear.
Shown working: every report that puts a value on a property says how many sales it used, over what period and what it left out, so you can disagree with it on the evidence.

Every figure carries the date it was current.

Registration runs behind reality: weeks, sometimes months, pass between a signed deed and its record. The latest months are always the thinnest, and a report that leans on them says so.
When a building's history is too thin to support a figure, the page says so in its place instead of printing a range the record cannot hold up.

So nobody has to guess where we stop.

Not a certified appraisal. Our values are for deciding what to offer or ask. A bank lending on a mortgage requires an avalúo signed by a licensed appraiser, and this does not replace it.
Not legal advice. We can show that a property carries a mortgage. What it means for your position is your lawyer's answer.
Not investment advice. We publish what sold and what it implies. We do not promise a return.
Not a brokerage. lakilé does not list properties for sale.