Santo Domingo is a two-tier real-estate market. On the west side — Piantini, Naco, La Esperilla, Los Cacicazgos — new-build residential towers of 15-40 units serve professional families, embassies, and expat executives. On the historic east side, colonial townhouses and mid-rises in the Zona Colonial, Gazcue, and Bella Vista carry heritage restrictions and appeal to buyers who want cultural weight over amenities.
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Neighborhoods
Piantini
The benchmark address
Trophy
High-rise towers, mixed-use
RD$ 172,377/m² — ONE / Registro de Oferta de Edificaciones, new-build asking price, close of 2025
Highest of any sector in Greater Santo Domingo. Up 4.6% on 2024. Asking prices for new supply, not recorded sales.
The most expensive square metre in Greater Santo Domingo, and the centre of the Polígono Central. Almost entirely vertical: high-rise towers, corporate offices and mixed-use buildings, with the premium developments giving one apartment to a floor. Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Gustavo Mejía Ricart run through it, and Acrópolis, Blue Mall and Novo Centro sit within a few minutes. The British Embassy is here, as are the JW Marriott and the InterContinental. Towers are gated with private security as standard.
Near: Av. Winston Churchill, Av. Abraham Lincoln, Gustavo Mejía Ricart, Acrópolis Center, Blue Mall, Novo Centro, JW Marriott, British Embassy
Ensanche Naco
Piantini's quieter neighbor
Trophy
Luxury towers, offices, clinics
RD$ 148,926/m² — ONE / Registro de Oferta de Edificaciones, new-build asking price, close of 2025
Second of nine sectors surveyed. Up 7.1% on 2024. Asking prices for new supply, not recorded sales.
Laid out in 1959 on the grounds of the old Andrews airport and conceived as a self-sufficient residential quarter, since built upward into luxury towers alongside offices, clinics and retail. It reads as more residential than Piantini: tree-lined avenues, a slower daily rhythm, and Plaza Naco, reported as the first shopping centre in the country, at its heart. Ágora Mall is here. It borders Piantini, Serrallés and La Julia.
Near: Av. Tiradentes, Av. John F. Kennedy, Gustavo Mejía Ricart, Plaza Naco, Ágora Mall
Gazcue
The garden suburb, and the fastest-moving address in the city
Premium
Early-twentieth-century houses, art déco, newer mid-rise
RD$ 145,139/m² — ONE / Registro de Oferta de Edificaciones, new-build asking price, close of 2025
Up approximately 20% on 2024, the largest movement of any sector surveyed, and now pricing above Bella Vista. Asking prices for new supply, not recorded sales.
Santo Domingo's first garden suburb, laid out in the early twentieth century and running roughly three kilometres. Rebuilt after the San Zenón hurricane of 1930, which gave it the mixture of rationalism, neoclassicism and tropical art déco it is known for, the déco showing chiefly in balconies, cornices and mouldings. It sits between the Zona Colonial and the Malecón, wrapped around the Plaza de la Cultura with the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Teatro Nacional, and the Palacio Nacional at its edge. Its architecture is under real development pressure and is not formally protected, which is worth knowing before buying into it.
Near: Plaza de la Cultura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito, Palacio Nacional, Malecón, Clínica Abreu, Zona Colonial
Los Cacicazgos
Where the houses are
Trophy
Single-family mansions, some luxury apartments
No reliable figure. The national new-build survey samples very little construction here, so the published number is not usable. Priced by house rather than by square metre.
The city's address for single-family houses rather than apartments: mansions on wide tree-lined avenues, gardens and pools, alongside a smaller number of newer luxury buildings. Its eastern boundary is the Parque Mirador Sur, and Anacaona and Gregorio Luperón run through it. Security standards here are among the highest in the city. Because so little new construction happens on this stock, it is under-represented in the national new-build survey and no reliable price per square metre exists for it.
Near: Parque Mirador Sur, Av. Anacaona, Av. Gregorio Luperón, Malecón
Arroyo Hondo
More house, less address
Premium
Houses in private residenciales, newer towers
Not covered by the national new-build survey. Agent asking prices in mid-2026 ran from approximately US$1,345 to US$1,845 per square metre for new build, materially below the Polígono Central for considerably more space per unit.
Historically the semi-rural edge of the city, and the direction higher-income families moved when they wanted a garden and quiet. Today a composite of Arroyo Hondo Viejo, II and III, Altos, Cerros and Colinas: houses inside private residenciales alongside newer towers, with Avenida de los Próceres as the axis and the Jardín Botánico Nacional on its flank. Consistently named among the safest places to live in the country, on controlled access, low traffic and organised private surveillance.
Near: Jardín Botánico Nacional, Av. de los Próceres, Av. República de Argentina, United States Embassy
Zona Colonial
The first city in the Americas
Premium
Colonial and republican townhouses, casonas, conversions
No survey figure. Asking prices for restored properties in mid-2026 ranged widely, from roughly US$185,000 to over US$1,250,000, driven by condition and street rather than by area.
Founded in 1502 and inscribed by UNESCO in 1990: 106 hectares within the old walls, and the oldest permanent European settlement in the hemisphere. Colonial and republican townhouses and casonas, many converted into boutique hotels and short-let apartments, on streets that include the Catedral Primada, the Alcázar de Colón and Calle Las Damas. The Malecón begins immediately to the west. The resident population has fallen sharply over four decades as the quarter has been given over to visitors, which is both the opportunity and the caution here.
Near: Catedral Primada de América, Alcázar de Colón, Calle Las Damas, Parque Colón, Fortaleza Ozama, Malecón
Bella Vista
Space, on the Sarasota corridor
Premium
Mid and high-rise apartments
RD$ 133,825/m² — ONE / Registro de Oferta de Edificaciones, new-build asking price, close of 2025
Fourth of nine sectors surveyed. Up 8.1% on 2024. Asking prices for new supply, not recorded sales.
Mid and high-rise apartments with retail along Avenida Sarasota, its spine, running west from the Polígono Central toward the Mirador Sur corridor. Bella Vista Mall anchors it. New building continues on the northern side, and unit sizes tend to be more generous per peso than the addresses immediately north.
Near: Av. Sarasota, Bella Vista Mall, Parque Mirador Sur
Evaristo Morales
The way into the Polígono Central
Mid tier
Modern towers and single-family homes
Not covered by the national new-build survey. Agent asking prices in mid-2026: one-bedroom from approximately US$128,000, two-bedroom from approximately US$202,000, three-bedroom from approximately US$281,000. Asking prices for new and off-plan supply.
Agricultural land until the 1960s, named for the man who owned it, sold off and built upward since. A balance of modern towers and older single-family homes, immediately off Winston Churchill and minutes from Acrópolis, Blue Mall and Multicentro Churchill. It carries the addresses of the central district at entry to mid rather than trophy pricing, which is what makes it interesting.
Near: Av. Winston Churchill, Acrópolis Center, Blue Mall, Multicentro Churchill
Serrallés
Corporate, central, mixed
Premium
Apartment towers, corporate offices, mixed-use
Absent from every published survey table. Widely perceived as pricing alongside Piantini, though no figure exists to confirm it.
One of the four sectors of the Polígono Central, alongside Piantini, Naco and Ensanche Paraíso, and more a mixed urban core than a purely residential quarter. Apartment towers stand next to corporate headquarters, restaurants, clinics and shopping. Several significant Dominican and international companies keep their head offices here.
Near: Polígono Central, Av. Winston Churchill, Av. 27 de Febrero
