NEIGHBORHOOD INTELLIGENCE · PUNTA PACÍFICA · 2026
Punta Pacífica,
decoded.
Punta Pacífica is Panama City's glass peninsula — a point largely reclaimed from the bay, off the San Francisco district, built almost entirely between 2004 and 2021, where the Corredor Sur meets the water. Twenty-one residential towers, one hotel-condo giant, a private hospital and a mall at the gate: the city's most vertical address.
From the Cinta Costera, Punta Pacífica looks like the expensive part of the postcard. The registry tells a more useful story.
We read all 21 completed residential towers on the point — about 2,500 apartments, plus the 1,008-key hotel-condo we price separately — straight from Panama's public registry: every closing, every mortgage, every embargo.
What the point actually does: it closes about 100 owner-to-owner sales a year, like clockwork. It asks $2,244 per square meter and closes at $1,838. It holds roughly three and a half years of standing inventory. And above $1M, 85% of buyers are companies or foundations, not names.
The same skyline hides a price ladder from $1,400 to $2,529 per meter — which tower you pick matters more than the fact that you're on the point.
If you're buying here — to live, to rent out, or to negotiate well — this is the ground truth to start from.
THE PENINSULA
Who actually lives here.
Punta Pacífica is the city's vertical district: towers on land won from the bay, lobbies with staff, and daily life measured in elevator minutes. Its residents are a mix of Panamanian professionals and executives, long-stay expatriates, and owners who visit their apartment a few weeks a year — which is why so many lights are off on a Tuesday night, and why the registry shows so much of the point held through companies and foundations.
The practical draw is density done conveniently: one of the country's leading private hospitals inside the neighborhood, the Multiplaza mall at the entrance, the Corredor Sur ramp taking you to the airport in twenty minutes. The trade-offs are the ones every glass point has — construction-era streets that prioritize cars, salt on the windows, and building fees that come with towers full of amenities.
- Health
- Pacífica Salud (Hospital Punta Pacífica), affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, sits inside the neighborhood — a genuine factor in why executives and retirees anchor here.
- Shopping
- Multiplaza Pacific — the city's flagship mall, luxury wing included — borders the neighborhood; daily errands and dining sit within a few minutes' walk or drive.
- Getting around
- The Corredor Sur on-ramp at the point's entrance puts Tocumen airport ~20 minutes away; the banking district is 10. Inside the point, distances are short but the streets were drawn for cars.
- One honest note
- Panama's census reads at corregimiento level, not tower level — so this report makes no demographic claims it can't source. Everything here comes from the property registry, which reads the point building by building.
The 60-second read
Five signals, one line each. Tap to jump to the full read.
The point, at a glance
Twenty-one towers, one finished market.
Before the signals, the lay of the peninsula: what class of tower stands here, which ones dominate the listings pages, and the steady pulse of what actually sells.
Where the listings pile up
Top 6 towers by active sale listings
| Tower | Active listings | Median ask | Ask per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Tower | 144 | $477K | $2,956 |
| Dupont Tower | 103 | $379K | $2,222 |
| Q Tower | 70 | $655K | $2,083 |
| Oceanaire | 68 | $370K | $2,222 |
| Oasis on the Bay | 61 | $380K | $2,222 |
| Aqualina | 45 | $850K | $2,255 |
Grand Tower alone shows 144 active listings for 286 apartments. Broker portals multiply the same unit across agencies — so we de-duplicate before drawing conclusions. The honest count is in Signal 3.
What actually sells
Owner-to-owner closings per year
| Year | Owner-to-owner | First-hand | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 96 | 2 | 98 |
| 2023 | 101 | 41 | 142 |
| 2024 | 101 | 35 | 136 |
| 2025 | 102 | 24 | 126 |
| 2026 (H1) | 55 | 5 | 60 |
The steadiest number in this report: about 100 owner-to-owner closings a year, four years running. The first-hand column is the last developer stock clearing out — the point is finished.
SIGNAL 1 · PICK THE TOWER
Trophy skyline, honest ladder
Asking $2,244/m², closing $1,838/m² — and a $1,400–$2,529 ladder underneath
Owners on the point ask $2,244 per square meter; the meter actually closes at $1,838. And that 22% is not spread evenly — the everyday towers ask 10% over reality, the trophy lobbies 30–71%.
- Oceanaire+10%
- Dupont Tower+10%
- Oasis on the Bay+11%
- Aqualina+11%
- Ocean Drive+11%
- Loft Four 41+16%
- Mystic Point+29%
- Grand Tower+30%
- Torre 400+32%
- Q TOWER+34%
- Aquamare+71%
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Two prices live on this peninsula. The one on the listing — a median $2,244 per square meter across ~315 distinct asking positions — and the one on the deed: $1,838 per square meter where owners actually sold to owners over the last two years. That's 22% of daylight between ambition and ink.
And the daylight is not spread evenly. In the towers that trade every month — Oceanaire, Dupont, Oasis, Aqualina — asking sits a disciplined 10–11% over closing. In the trophy lobbies the gap opens wide: Grand Tower +30%, Q Tower +34%, Aquamare +71%. The bigger the name, the bigger the dream in the ask.
Underneath the gap runs the ladder. Recent like-for-like closings put Mystic Point at $1,400/m² and Pacific Point Torre 400 at $2,529/m² — a 1.8× spread on one small point of land. The tower you choose sets your price far more than the address does.
The ladder — closed per-meter bands by tower (24 months)
| Tower | Built | Recent comps | Closes at (/m²) | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Point Torre 400 | 2021 | 48 | $2,529 | $2,475–$2,789 |
| Grand Tower | 2013 | 17 | $2,279 | $2,120–$2,504 |
| Dupont Tower | 2010 | 12 | $2,027 | $1,872–$2,177 |
| Oceanaire | 2011 | 24 | $2,025 | $1,900–$2,107 |
| Aqualina | 2007 | 15 | $2,024 | $1,818–$2,075 |
| Oasis on the Bay | 2012 | 15 | $2,000 | $1,821–$2,186 |
| Pacific Village (Tower Two) | 2010 | 9 | $1,737 | $1,688–$1,900 |
| Ocean Drive | 2009 | 5 | $1,621 | $1,325–$1,689 |
| Ocean Park Torre 1 | 2005 | 6 | $1,566 | $1,517–$1,672 |
| Aquamare | 2007 | 7 | $1,545 | $1,479–$1,704 |
| Q Tower | 2011 | 5 | $1,541 | $1,491–$1,899 |
| Bahía Pacífica | — | 4 | $1,532 | $1,376–$1,695 |
| Loft Four 41 | 2008 | 5 | $1,406 | $1,395–$1,436 |
| Mystic Point | 2006 | 15 | $1,400 | $1,357–$1,506 |
Read the ask against the tower's own closing band, never against the neighborhood. A $2,222/m² ask in Oceanaire is a fair opening position; the same number in Mystic Point carries a 59% dream on top. The peninsula median tells you the climate — the tower band tells you the price.
The top of the ladder is the last new stock. Pacific Point Torre 400's $2,529/m² comes with 48 recent closings — the point's 2021 finale still finding its owners. It's the ceiling for what the peninsula's meter proves it can close at; everything asking above it is asking the market to make history.
The unit-mix excuse doesn't apply here. What's listed (typically 193 m²) looks like what trades (208 m²) — so the 22% gap isn't big units distorting an average. It's simply where sellers start, and the discount to reality is what patient buyers collect.
"Closes at" figures are each tower's canonical per-meter band over the trailing 24 months — the same band used across every lakilé product, which sets aside auctions, family transfers, corporate reshuffles and atypical unit formats. Towers with fewer than 3 recent like-for-like closings (Torre 700, The Residences, Venetian, Bellagio, Royal Pacific, Pacific Point 200, Ocean Park 2) are real and simply thin — we show them nothing we can't prove.
SIGNAL 2 · MOVEMENT
The finished island
~100 owner-to-owner sales a year, four years running
The peninsula sells about 100 owner-to-owner apartments a year — 96, 101, 101, 102 since 2022 — while first-hand developer sales fade from 41 to a handful. This market is done being built; now it just trades.
- 202296
- 2023101
- 2024101
- 2025102
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Most market reports chase growth. Punta Pacífica's defining fact is the opposite: it's done. The last tower topped out in 2021, and since then the point has settled into an almost mechanical rhythm — 96, 101, 101, 102 owner-to-owner closings in 2022 through 2025, with 55 already inked in the first half of 2026.
The other column is emptying out. First-hand sales — the corporate vehicles that built the towers clearing their last units — fell from 41 in 2023 to 24 in 2025 to just 5 so far this year. The one visible burst, 18 first-hand closings in a single quarter of 2024, was the tail end of Pacific Point's clearing, not a new wave.
What's left is a pure resale market: roughly 4% of the point's ~2,500 apartments change hands in a year. Owners here mostly stay — or mostly wait.
The pulse — closings by quarter
| Quarter | Owner-to-owner | First-hand | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q1 | 17 | 5 | 22 |
| 2024 Q2 | 28 | 5 | 33 |
| 2024 Q3 | 31 | 18 | 49 |
| 2024 Q4 | 25 | 7 | 32 |
| 2025 Q1 | 19 | 5 | 24 |
| 2025 Q2 | 31 | 7 | 38 |
| 2025 Q3 | 27 | 5 | 32 |
| 2025 Q4 | 25 | 7 | 32 |
| 2026 Q1 | 28 | 2 | 30 |
| 2026 Q2 | 27 | 2 | 29 |
A finished market negotiates differently. There is no sales office setting a price floor, no launch premium pulling comps upward — just owners with different levels of patience. That's why the closing ladder (Signal 1) is so stable, and why time is the buyer's main tool here (Signal 3 shows how much of it sellers are already spending).
Steadiness cuts both ways. For a buyer, ~100 real closings a year means the comps are always fresh and a fair price is always provable. For a seller, it means about 8 or 9 owners succeed per month on the entire peninsula — pricing inside the tower's band is what separates the sold from the shelf.
The quarterly registry rhythm barely moves — between 22 and 49 closings a quarter over two and a half years, with the only spike being developer clearing. Nothing in the current data suggests the pace is changing in either direction.
Registered closings lag the handshake by weeks to months, so the most recent quarter always reads slightly low before the registry catches up. First-hand vs owner-to-owner is classified from registered seller patterns — the same standard used across all lakilé reports.
SIGNAL 3 · THE SHELF
Three and a half years of inventory
~315 distinct apartments for sale · 89 sold in the last 12 months
After removing duplicate broker listings, ~315 distinct apartments are on the market against 89 owner-to-owner sales in the last 12 months — a 3.5-year shelf. In several towers the shelf runs 6 to 11 years.
- The Residences132 mo
- Loft Four 4196 mo
- Pacific Point Torre 20096 mo
- Ocean Park Torre 284 mo
- Q TOWER82 mo
- Grand Tower72 mo
- Venetian Tower72 mo
- Dupont Tower47 mo
- Ocean Drive36 mo
- Aqualina32 mo
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The portals show 655 active sale listings on the peninsula. Strip the duplicates — the same apartment listed by three agencies — and roughly 315 distinct apartments are actually for sale. Against 89 owner-to-owner closings in the last twelve months, that is a 42-month shelf: three and a half years of standing inventory at the current pace.
Tower by tower, the shelf tells you exactly where the waiting happens. Oasis on the Bay (20 months) and Aquamare (22) are the closest thing to liquid. The mid-shelf — Oceanaire, Aqualina, Mystic Point — runs two to three years. And at the far end, Grand Tower holds six years of supply, Q Tower nearly seven, Loft Four 41 eight — and The Residences eleven.
Put Signal 1 and this one together and the mechanism is visible: the towers with the widest ask-over-close gaps are mostly the ones with the deepest shelves. Ambitious asking doesn't fail loudly here — it just waits.
The shelf, tower by tower
| Tower | Distinct for sale | Sold (12 mo) | Months of shelf |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Residences | 11 | 1 | 132 |
| Loft Four 41 | 16 | 2 | 96 |
| Pacific Point Torre 200 | 16 | 2 | 96 |
| Ocean Park Torre 2 | 7 | 1 | 84 |
| Q Tower | 34 | 5 | 82 |
| Grand Tower | 60 | 10 | 72 |
| Venetian Tower | 6 | 1 | 72 |
| Dupont Tower | 35 | 9 | 47 |
| Ocean Drive | 6 | 2 | 36 |
| Aqualina | 29 | 11 | 32 |
| Oceanaire | 42 | 16 | 32 |
| Mystic Point | 15 | 7 | 26 |
| Aquamare | 11 | 6 | 22 |
| Oasis on the Bay | 27 | 16 | 20 |
This is the negotiation signal. A seller in a 20-month tower has options; a seller in an 80-month tower has company. Before you offer, know which shelf you're standing in front of — the same 5% discount that insults a liquid tower's owner may open the conversation in a deep one.
Depth also explains the listing pages. Grand Tower's 144 raw listings aren't 144 sellers — they're ~60 apartments syndicated across agencies, competing against each other in public. When you see the same unit at three prices from three brokers, the lowest one is the seller's real starting point.
For sellers, the read is symmetrical: in the deep-shelf towers, the way out is pricing inside the closing band from day one — the shelf is full of asks that chose to wait instead.
Distinct-apartment counts are our de-duplication floor (identical price-and-size positions collapse to one); the true distinct count sits between that floor and the raw total. Months of shelf = distinct listings ÷ last-12-months owner-to-owner closings — a snapshot pace, not a forecast.
SIGNAL 4 · WHAT IT EARNS
The 8% peninsula
Like-for-like gross yields run 5.4%–10.4% — and the icons earn the least
Like-for-like, gross long-term yield runs 5.4% to 10.4% and clusters near 8%. The dearest meters — Grand Tower, Oasis — earn the least; the older workhorses earn the most.
- Bellagio10.4%
- Aqualina8.7%
- Bahía Pacífica8.5%
- Aquamare8.5%
- Mystic Point8.1%
- Q TOWER8%
- Dupont Tower8%
- Oceanaire7.9%
- Grand Tower6.2%
- Oasis on the Bay5.4%
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Price a rented square meter against a purchased one — same tower, like for like — and Punta Pacífica pays its landlords a gross 5.4% to 10.4%, clustering just under 8%.
The pattern inside the range is the useful part: the cheaper the meter, the harder it works. Bellagio (10.4%), Aqualina (8.7%), Bahía Pacífica and Aquamare (8.5%) top the table, while the point's most expensive everyday meters — Grand Tower at 6.2% and Oasis on the Bay at 5.4% — sit at the bottom. Prestige is priced in; rent mostly isn't.
For income buyers, the sweet spot the data points to is the mid-ladder: towers closing near $1,500–$2,000/m² with real rental depth — Aqualina, Oceanaire, Dupont — where the meter earns 8% without betting on a trophy resale.
Gross yield, like for like — rent per m² vs purchase per m²
| Tower | Rent (/m²/mo) | Closes at (/m²) | Gross yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellagio | $14.00 | $1,457 | 10.4% |
| Aqualina | $15.44 | $1,908 | 8.7% |
| Bahía Pacífica | $12.07 | $1,532 | 8.5% |
| Aquamare | $12.04 | $1,521 | 8.5% |
| Mystic Point | $10.38 | $1,391 | 8.1% |
| Q Tower | $11.44 | $1,541 | 8.0% |
| Dupont Tower | $15.06 | $2,027 | 8.0% |
| Oceanaire | $14.78 | $2,025 | 7.9% |
| Grand Tower | $13.71 | $2,371 | 6.2% |
| Oasis on the Bay | $9.58 | $1,899 | 5.4% |
Gross is not net. Peninsula towers carry real building fees — full-amenity high-rises with pools, gyms and staffed lobbies — plus management, vacancy between tenants, and upkeep. A useful rule of thumb: expect net to land several points below these gross figures, lower still in the amenity-heaviest buildings.
Why the icons yield least: their purchase meter carries the prestige premium but their rents compete with the whole peninsula's rental pool. Renters pay for location and finish — they don't pay 60% more to be in the tallest lobby. If the plan is income, buy the meter the renter values, not the one the postcard does.
Oasis on the Bay is the cautionary tale in reverse: 91 active rental listings — the deepest rental pool on the point — but a rent per meter (about $9.6) that its own $1,899 closing meter turns into the peninsula's thinnest yield. Depth of demand and quality of return are different things.
Yields are gross and like-for-like: each tower's median asking rent per m² (trimmed 10% toward achieved rents) against its own recent closing meter — never a big rented unit divided by a small purchased one. Only towers with at least 3 active rentals and 3 recent closings appear; asking rents are a ceiling on achieved rents.
SIGNAL 5 · THE DOWNSIDE LEDGER
What the lobby doesn't tell you
97 embargoed titles since 2020 · 47% reached auction
Since 2020, 97 peninsula titles have carried an embargo across 16 of the 21 towers; 46 reached auction. Per 100 units, the heaviest dockets are in the smaller towers, not the icons.
- Loft Four 4110.8 per 100
- Royal Pacific Tower9.5 per 100
- Ocean Drive9.5 per 100
- Q TOWER6 per 100
- Aqualina5.8 per 100
- Mystic Point5.3 per 100
- Pacific Village (Tower Two)4.2 per 100
- Grand Tower4.2 per 100
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Since 2020, 97 apartment titles on the peninsula have carried an embargo — a court freeze, the registry's first loud signal of an owner in trouble. They sit in 16 of the 21 towers: distress here is thin but nearly everywhere.
The second number matters more: 46 of those 97 titles — 47% — went on to a judicial auction. On this peninsula, an embargo is closer to a coin flip than a formality. 24 titles are carrying an unresolved embargo right now.
Normalize per 100 units and the map inverts the postcard: the heaviest dockets are the small and mid towers — Loft Four 41 (10.8 per 100), Royal Pacific and Ocean Drive (9.5) — while the biggest names sit near the bottom: Oasis at 1.7, Pacific Point Torre 400 at 2.4 per 100.
The ledger, tower by tower — since 2020
| Tower | Units | Embargoed | Reached auction | Open now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loft Four 41 | 65 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Royal Pacific Tower | 74 | 7 | 1 | 5 |
| Ocean Drive | 63 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Q Tower | 150 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
| Aqualina | 138 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
| Mystic Point | 245 | 13 | 8 | 2 |
| Pacific Village (Tower Two) | 214 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
| Grand Tower | 286 | 12 | 8 | 2 |
| Oceanaire | 233 | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Dupont Tower | 170 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Pacific Point Torre 400 | 125 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Oasis on the Bay | 234 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
For a buyer, this is a checklist item, not a scare. A title search on the exact unit — and a glance at its tower's docket — costs little and prevents the worst outcome in real estate: buying a lawsuit. In towers near the top of this table, make it a condition, not a curiosity.
Distress is also where the discounts live. A 47% auction-conversion rate means this peninsula produces a steady trickle of court-priced sales — the only sales that legally must clear below appetite. We track them; that's a different product, but the free lesson is: the same tower can contain the market's worst purchase and its best one in the same month.
Royal Pacific Tower deserves its own sentence: 7 embargos, only 1 resolved through auction, and 5 still open — the point's largest live docket. Whatever is happening inside that building, a buyer there today negotiates with more information than the seller expects.
Counts are registry titles that carried an embargo entry dated since January 2020; "open now" means no lifting entry has been registered against the embargo yet. We publish building-level patterns and never owner names — that's Panama's data-protection law and our own standard. The hotel-condo's separate docket (62 embargoed titles) lives in the intel layer.
The intel layer
Four reads under the signals — who's buying through structures, who lends on the point, when it trades, and the hotel that out-prices every tower.
Structures, not names
- Under $250K38%
- $250K–$500K41%
- $500K–$1M60%
- Over $1M85%
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Read the buyer names on the peninsula's owner-to-owner deeds since 2022 and a clean gradient appears: the more expensive the apartment, the less likely a person's name is on it. Under $250K, 38% of buyers are companies or foundations. Between $500K and $1M it's 60%. Above $1M, 17 of 20 recorded buyers were structures — and Panamanian private-interest foundations are nearly half of that structured money.
| Price tier | Sales | Via company | Via foundation | Inside structures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $250K | 112 | 23 | 20 | 38% |
| $250K–$500K | 213 | 45 | 43 | 41% |
| $500K–$1M | 107 | 37 | 27 | 60% |
| Over $1M | 20 | 13 | 4 | 85% |
This is how Panama holds high-end property — estate planning, liability, privacy — not a red flag. But it changes your negotiation: above $1M you're usually across the table from a structure and its advisors, with no school year to finish and no sentimental floor under the price. We report how title is held, never nationality — the registry doesn't carry it, and we don't guess.
Who lends on the point
- Banco General22.2%
- Mercantil10.3%
- Banesco9.9%
- Scotiabank9.5%
- Caja de Ahorros9.1%
- Banistmo7.4%
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Two hundred forty-three mortgages have been registered against Punta Pacífica apartments since 2023, and no single lender owns the market: Banco General leads at 22%, then Mercantil, Banesco, Scotiabank and Caja de Ahorros bunch between 9% and 10%. This is an ordinary, competitive mortgage market — the money to buy here comes from everywhere, not one house.
| Lender | Mortgages | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Banco General | 54 | 22.2% |
| Mercantil | 25 | 10.3% |
| Banesco | 24 | 9.9% |
| Scotiabank | 23 | 9.5% |
| Caja de Ahorros | 22 | 9.1% |
| Banistmo | 18 | 7.4% |
Two practical reads. If you're financing here, start with Banco General — the bank most fluent in Punta Pacífica paperwork — then make the mid-table compete, because five lenders sit within striking distance of each other on rate. And when a sale's story leans on "the bank," no single name is common enough to assume which one — so ask, don't guess.
When the point trades
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Peninsula closings bunch: July, August and December each recorded 57 closings across 2022–2025, while February managed 24. The point signs into mid-year and year-end, and hibernates after the holidays.
| Rhythm | Read |
|---|---|
| Jul–Aug | The mid-year peak — most competing buyers, most movement |
| Dec | The year-end close — deals pushed over the line before the holidays |
| Feb | The floor — fewest closings; patient buyers negotiate against silence |
Registered closings lag handshakes by weeks, so the real deal-making runs a little ahead of these months. It's context, not a trading system — but if you'd rather be the only serious buyer in the lobby, February exists.
The hotel exception
See the full breakdown
The peninsula's biggest building isn't in any of this report's averages — deliberately. The JW Marriott's 1,008 condo-keys are hotel economics: 74 registered sales in 2025 alone (141 over 24 months, $350K median), a closing meter of $3,119/m² that tops every residential tower, 92 active listings — and its own distress ledger, with 62 embargoed titles since 2020.
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Condo-keys | 1,008 — the point's biggest single building |
| Sales in 2025 · trailing 24 months | 74 · 141 ($350K median) |
| Closing meter (24 months) | $3,119/m² |
| Active sale listings | 92 |
| Embargoed titles since 2020 | 62 |
A "JW apartment" comes with hotel fees, a hotel rental program and a hotel resale market. Price it against the hotel, not against the towers next door — and read its 62-title docket as part of that same, separate economy.
Go deeper
Three companion reads from the same registry work.
The downside ledger
How to read embargos, auctions and open dockets before you buy — the method behind Signal 5, tower by tower.
Read →The finished island
What three and a half years of standing inventory does to a negotiation — and how to use the shelf when you're the buyer.
Read →Structures on the point
Companies, foundations and the 85% — who really holds Punta Pacífica, and what it means when you're buying from a structure.
Read →See every tower
Browse the buildings of Punta Pacífica, with the prices and ownership reads behind each one.
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