Communities
Five municipalities hold eight of every ten closed sales above $1 million in Puerto Rico.
Five municipalities take roughly eight of every ten closings above a million dollars on this island, and which one is right for you comes down to three things: where the children will go to school, how often someone flies out of San Juan, and what you want to see when you open the door. Dorado is the default for families, with TASIS Dorado and Dorado Academy and gated communities at every level. Condado is the walkable urban one. Guaynabo is the metro choice for schools and hospitals. Rio Grande and Bahia Beach are the resort version, Palmas del Mar the year-round one, and the west coast is where an ocean view is still attainable. The closed record behind all of it: a square foot closed at a median of $1,284 inside the Dorado Beach gates in 2026, $630 in Condado across 83 sales, and from $922 to $1,911 at Bahia Beach. Tell us the three answers and we will show you the two communities that fit, not the twelve that do not.
By the foot, Dorado Beach. A square foot closed at a median of $1,284 inside the gates in 2026, against $630 in Condado across 83 sales, and from $922 to $1,911 at Bahia Beach. Five municipalities take roughly eight of every ten closings above a million dollars on this island.
Thirteen gated communities across six towns, and they are not interchangeable. Dorado is the default for families, with TASIS Dorado and Dorado Academy and gated communities at every level. Condado is the walkable urban one. Guaynabo is the metro choice for schools and hospitals. Rio Grande and Bahia Beach are the resort version, Palmas del Mar the year-round one, and the west coast is where an ocean view is still attainable.
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Mostly behind five municipal lines, not one. The concentration is the finding: roughly eight of every ten closings above a million dollars happen in five municipalities, which is why a median for the island as a whole describes almost nobody. The comparable that matters is the one in your line and on your floor, not the one for Puerto Rico.
We do not publish where our clients live, and we would not represent anyone who did. What we can tell you is which communities closed what this year, and who was buying in them.
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Tax residency is the reason most of them give, and it is only half of it. Act 60 obliges a decree holder to buy a primary residence within two years, in their own name, from an unrelated seller, and it cannot be rented out. So the decision stops being financial and becomes a question of where the children go to school and how often someone flies out of San Juan. That is information, not tax advice.
The money in Puerto Rico sits in thirteen gated communities across six towns. The most expensive by the foot is The Isles at Dorado Beach, where six homes ask $1,437 to $2,280 per square foot. The most affordable of the luxury tier is Río Mar in Río Grande, from $330. Below is every community we track, what it asks today and what it has actually closed.
The Isles at Dorado Beach — six homes, all above $5,500,000. Asking $1,437 to $2,280 per square foot, the highest rate of any community we track.
Dorado Beach East — four residences from $4,950,000 to $9,000,000, $825 to $1,444 per square foot. The cheapest asks less per foot than anything that closed here this year.
Dorado Country Estates — one house for sale at $11,950,000, $2,310 per square foot. Six closings in thirty-six months ran $677 to $2,131.
Sabanera Dorado — twelve homes, all above $1M and eight above $2M. Median asking $2,412,500 and $656 per square foot. Sabanera is not Dorado Beach and the prices are not the same.
The whole town: Dorado.
Los Paseos, Dorado — seventeen closings in 2026 across six Paseo urbanizations, median $822,500 at $274 per square foot, six of them above a million. The reachable side of Dorado: the municipality as a whole closes at $438.
Garden Hills — eight homes for sale, six above $1M. Median asking $2,195,000 and $565 per square foot, the most expensive in Guaynabo.
Torrimar — 25 closings in thirty-six months, median $900,000 and $313 per square foot, against a median asking of $491.
The Legacy — 44 new residences on Luis Vigoreaux. $818 per square foot for a two-bedroom, $1,005 for a penthouse. Seven Guaynabo homes already on the market ask more.
The Bristol, Condado — two residences at 1052 Ashford Avenue: $2,995,000 at $910 per square foot and $12,500,000 at $1,960. Nothing has ever closed there above $1,095.
Isla Verde — 46 properties for sale. Among the fourteen most expensive, asking runs $177 to $2,276 per square foot: thirteen to one inside one beachfront strip.
The whole towns: Guaynabo, Condado, San Juan and Carolina.
Los Paseos de San Juan — the gated side of San Juan, in Cupey. Five closings in 2026, four above a million, median $1,260,000 at $370 per square foot against Condado’s $630. Houses on lots, not towers.
Encantada, Trujillo Alto — median $510,000 against $175,500 for the rest of the municipality. The median seller here closes at 100 percent of a first asking price in fourteen days, the only community we track where that is true.
Bahía Beach — three residences from $1,890,000 to $2,500,000, $1,032 to $1,347 per square foot, next to the six that closed in 2026 and the twelve in 2025.
Grand Reserve — resale closed between $294 and $616 per square foot. The four for sale today are new construction at about $1,380, from $3,695,000 to $9,750,000.
Río Mar — nine homes and five lots. Asking $330 to $978 per square foot, median $427 and a median price of $825,000. The entry point to the resort coast.
Palmas del Mar, Humacao — 129 properties listed and 42 MLS closings in thirty-six months. Asking runs 19 percent above what closes, and 14 of the 27 we track have already cut price. The Palmas Academy is inside the gate.
The whole towns: Río Grande and the west coast — Rincón, Cabo Rojo, Isabela and Aguadilla.
These are list prices and closed sales from the MLS, not a valuation. Which of them count as comparables for a specific home is decided in a CMA. Figures as of October 7, 2026. Antonio Cartagena, broker, license C-13471, and Lizvette Robles, broker, license C-23765.
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Antonio Cartagena (Broker, Lic. C-13471, closing in Puerto Rico since 2005) and Lizvette Robles (Broker, Lic. C-23765). Whether you are buying, selling or relocating under Act 60, you work directly with the two of us, from the first showing to the closing table. Pricing comes from closed sales in your community, not asking prices. We answer the phone.