Category: Real Estate

Investing in Brazil

Copacabana Real estate

Clogs on the Copacabana

Where Dutch Money Is Flowing in Brazilian Real Estate eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 22, 2026 – Four centuries ago, the Dutch controlled a slice of northeastern Brazil, built forts along its coast, and left behind windmill-dotted towns whose names — Holambra, Carambeí, Castrolanda — still sound more like Friesland than Bahia. That old fascination never really…
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Porto Maravilha

The Port That Became a Neighborhood

Inside the Real Estate Boom Rewriting Rio’s Port Zone More than a century after Mayor Pereira Passos dreamed of a “Modern Port,” Rio’s old Port Zone is finally becoming a neighborhood — and the real estate market noticed before anyone else did. eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 3, 2026 – For over a hundred years, Rio’s dockside…
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São Paulo: selective growth in a maturing market

Brazil: Real Estate, Investing and Fun eyesonbrasil São Paulo/ Amsterdam, July 12th 2026– São Paulo’s real estate market presents a nuanced but telling picture in 2026. According to the June 2026 FipeZAP report, the average price per square metre in the city stands at R$ 12,055. Notably, Vitória (Espírito Santo) recently overtook São Paulo as…
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Basilio 177

From Vacant Offices to Home Addresses

Inside São Paulo’s Downtown Reinvention eyesonbrasil New York isn’t the only city racing to turn empty office towers into apartments — and São Paulo’s version of the story looks nothing like Manhattan’s. There are no new floors being stacked on top of century-old frames, no columns buckling under fresh residential loads. Instead, Brazil’s largest city…
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What the Pfizer Building Scare Reveals About New York's Office-to-Apartment Boom

Cracks in the Conversion

What the Pfizer Building Scare Reveals About New York’s Office-to-Apartment Boom eyesonbrasil For a few tense hours last week, a chunk of Midtown Manhattan went dark. Streets closed. Nine buildings evacuated. A “frozen zone” stretched from 40th to 45th Street between First and Third Avenues. The cause: two buckled steel columns on the 21st floor…
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