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- October 10, 2026
For years we repeated “location, location, location.” What if that is no longer enough today?
Throughout my business career there was a phrase that seemed to settle almost any real estate conversation: “Location, location, location.” I repeated it many times myself. And I still believe in it. A good location can completely change…
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The area looked the same… but it no longer was
I had walked through that area many times and, at first glance, it still looked the same. The same plots of land, the same streets, the same businesses as always. Until one day something stopped fitting. A shop had changed its activity. A…
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The map said it was close. Walking, I discovered something else
In Zaragoza I ended up walking more than twenty kilometers in a single day. I hadn't set out intending to. I simply kept linking places I wanted to see and chose to cover a good part of the route on foot…
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How many real estate opportunities are we missing around our metro stations?
We are capable of investing billions of dollars in building major transport infrastructure, but we are not always capable of anticipating everything that should develop around it…
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Are we evaluating our investments at the wrong time?
We often visit a plot of land, look at its surroundings, check the access routes, and go back convinced we've found an excellent location. But what would happen if we returned to that same place at seven at night…
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What doesn't exist yet can be more important than what's already being built
When a major investment arrives in a city, almost all of us tend to look at the same things: how much will be invested, how many jobs it will create, how many people it will attract. I've done it too. But more and more…
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Real-estate opportunities don't start when everyone can see them
Over the years I've learned that a real-estate opportunity rarely announces itself as such. Once the big projects arrive, prices start rising, new brands show up, and everyone starts talking about a given area, recognizing…
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Before investing in a location, there's something the data won't tell you
We've never had so much information available to decide where to invest. Today we can know how much a square meter is worth, who lives around a location, how much they spend, how they move, where they shop, what competition…
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HOW MUCH OF A PROPERTY'S VALUE IS BUILT ON THE STREET?
When we evaluate a plot of land, a retail space, a residential building, or a mixed-use project, we usually start with the familiar: Price per square meter. Zoning. Buildable area.…
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THERE ARE PLACES IN A CITY THAT BEGIN TO CHANGE LONG BEFORE WE CAN SEE IT.
It's probably happened to you before. You go back after a few years to a part of a city you knew well and find something different: More people. New…
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A Developer's Biggest Mistake Isn't Choosing the Wrong Plot of Land.
Something completely changed the way I evaluate a project. And it didn't happen in front of a blueprint. Or while reviewing a market study. It happened while walking cities. For years…
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The Opportunity Many Investors Haven't Spotted Yet
I'm increasingly convinced that Latin American cities have entered a new kind of competition. But it's not the one most people imagine. They're no longer competing to build the longest metro…
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I Believe Real Estate Gets to the Right Place... Just Often at the Wrong Time.
For a long time I thought a project's value lay mainly in the land. Today I believe I was only looking at part of the story. When I started analyzing this site…
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The Real Estate Market's Biggest Mistake Isn't Picking the Wrong Site. It's Arriving Too Late.
For many years I thought real estate development began with finding a good site. Like most people, I looked at location, access, zoning, demand and…
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Great Real Estate Opportunities Are Almost Never Obvious When They're Born
I want to ask you a question. When a city begins to transform... At what point do you think the great real estate opportunities are born? When the big…
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Land Is No Longer the Most Important Asset in Real Estate Development
For decades, most of the real estate industry asked the same question before developing a project: Where is the land? Today, that question still matters…
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Real Estate Will Never Be the Same Again
For decades we learned to divide real estate into categories. Housing. Retail. Offices. Logistics. Industrial. Hotels. Each sector evolved separately. Each…
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The Lens We're Using to Read the City No Longer Works
There's something I've been noticing over the past few years as I travel through different cities and talk with professionals in urban planning, architecture, real estate…
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The New Urban Lesson: Infrastructure Only Transforms When It Builds City
For a long time we believed a city moved forward whenever it opened a major project. A new road. A station. A corridor. A bridge. A landmark building. A new mall.…
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Lima's Real Estate Needle Is Starting to Swing East
Line 2, the Lima East Urban Development Plan, and new mixed-use projects are starting to reshape one of the capital's historically most underrated areas. For years, most of…
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The Biggest Mistake in Mixed-Use Projects… Is Believing You Already Know How to Build Them
Many developers and architects with experience in large-scale or high-rise residential projects are convinced they can develop mixed-use projects. The same thing happens…
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A Mixed-Use Project Isn't Measured by What It Mixes… but by How It Works
For years we've repeated an idea almost no one questions. That mixing housing, retail, offices and services is enough to build city. That the more complete the program…
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The 2026 Real Estate Boom Has Already Begun… Just Not Where Everyone Is Looking
While many are still waiting for clear signals to move, I want you to pause for a moment and look at something different. Lima's real estate market has already begun to change. But…
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The Biggest Mistake in Real Estate Today
…is still analyzing the city as it was, not as it's starting to become. There's something Lima's real estate market keeps doing — and that made sense until recently — making decisions from validation…
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Lima's Greatest Real Estate Potential… Is Where the Market Still Isn't Looking
There's something Lima's real estate market still refuses to accept. The city has already changed. But we keep analyzing it as if it hadn't. While most people keep looking for opportunities…
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What If Lima's Real Estate Market Is Pricing the City Wrong?
Lima is filling up with projects. Residential. Mixed-use. Retail. Logistics. More is being built. More is being invested. More is being sold. But there's a question almost no one is asking…
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The Invisible Mistakes of Real Estate Development
You can do everything right… and still develop a bad project. Not for lack of investment. Not for lack of design. But because of something much harder to spot: 👉 not understanding the city…
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What Do You Need to Understand Before Conceiving a Mixed-Use Project?
1. Understand the city before the site. Before thinking about the project, you have to understand the city it will sit in. That means knowing how people move, what the real…
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