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Rio de la Plata, the 26.8.2004

Real estate prices in Uruguay.

How does it actually look with the prices for reason and soil in Uruguay? A small overview.

Who emigrates to Uruguay, also property has to usually acquire the desire, in order to make itself so independent from future price fluctuations to. Who observes of Uruguay regularities considered and the little market, can thereby usually even price increases for its own real estates book. Like that to go and which traps one can respect in Uruguay has to try like here briefly to describe.

Like many other countries of South America also Uruguay is subject to strong price fluctuations. The economic cycles run very here according to experience steeply, but again and again turning. That is called on each very high high follows also again a very deep fall. Which is called for most German-speaking investors thus frequently "hot plaster", it means actually only that one must wait only somewhat if its desire real estate is at the moment overestimated. Who wants to sell should favorable way to wait be able, until the next is highly again there.

The cycle speed amounts to on a long-term basis about 3-5 years (6-10 years from valley to valley). Who would like to thus invest in Uruguay, something time and money should have to out-sit to. Who had the possibility substantial profits both however to book here.
Straight real estates in e.g. Punta del Este are naturally very high price fluctuations underlaid, since usually in a weak time most owners separate first from his holidays real estates.
Thus the Immobilenpreise was to about 30-40 % in the two preceded years under the today's market values. They are however still about 50 % under the values you before the crisis 1999 had.
It looks still more extreme this year in the agrarian sector because of the Sojabooms. The traditional value for good country is approximately with 1000 U$S/hectares (naturally only with appropriate size). While the prices in the last year with approximately 500-700 U$S under it lay still clearly now lie it with approximately 1700-2500 U$S/hectares. These prices apply however only to "Sojataugliches country". All other Laenderein are still relatively favorable to have.

A further reason for the high fluctuations is the possibility of using Uruguay than country with unrestricted money transfer. Money in Uruguay to invest completely without reservation and legally and thus the treasury extract lures naturally investors from all world.
If e.g. into Argentina a financialstrong time comes, use many Uruguay thus DEPOSIT country and invest a part of its fortune in Uruguay. By substantial tax savings in the own country so even investment possibilities without high net yield or hochpreisige purchases become for be worth-worth business. Uruguay in its size cannot compensate however a boom of its over-powerful neighbours (Argentina, Brazil), and whom high-price-own business on its own market adjusts. The prices rise so often superproportionally, i.e. even more highly than in the country of origin of the upswing.

A far less speculative however be worth-worth way of the winner managing in the reason and real estate range is the development and refinement of new coastal regions. Who has the necessary investment volume to partition and with infrastructure equip in order to buy a large piece country at the coast, finds favorable conditions in Uruguay.
Who plans here and calculates reasonably, the possibility such has to accomplish a project officially and legally in Uruguay. Bribery is not necessarily, nevertheless permission fast and meaningfully is distributed here.

A piece country with approximately 2000 meters beach and approx. 80 hectares of surface area close of the city Colonia del Sacramento is to be received here still approximately for 1 million dollar. Equipped however vacant such dream situations are to be sold to pieces of for example 5 hectares of A 200000 U$S. Less the costs of development, Partionierung and permission is to be gained so still about 150 to 200 per cent profit in approximately 5 years. The necessary investment volume however unfortunately is with approximately 1.5 million dollar. Naturally smaller volumes would be also conceivable, but unfortunately by far not so effective.

Who wants to build itself "only" its dream domicile, and it does not intend ever again to sell, would like to give like finally still another approximate price guideline for properties and real estates. The list can be naturally never complete or accurate. It is to give only an idea to that is situation, so that it is possible to consider or directly reject Uruguay as investment country.
The price depends naturally strongly on the neighbourhood, land development and further location factors.
If one observes the coast of Uruguay, of which border of Brazil up to the border to Argentina, Ersteinmahl is noticeable, which does not give it a clear price differential. Rather actually the prices are everywhere similarly, only by the three centers Punta del Este, Montevideo or Colonia del Sacramento interrupted. In the remainder of Uruguay a hectare costs 5 hectares to about 40 thousand U$S. directly at the water is approximately for 100-200 thousand U$S dollar to be received.
In the three Hochpreisigen regions can be made however as good as no statement about hectare prices. There depends simply too much on the situation, and thus the environment land development, water proximity and innumerable weitern factors.
Who would like to gladly again build can itself at the following price guideline orient, the square meter new building after German kind of condition lies for instance between 300 -400 U$S ready for occupancy. 300 a square meter house is to be gotten again thus for instance starting from 100 thousand U$S.

With a in such a way complicated market like Uruguayi is naturally only difficult a safe pattern to provide. We hope to have given however nevertheless an approximate idea to the situation of the property market in Uruguay.

Faithfully,
Wolfgang Wehrheim