Leblon beach, the lagoon and the Dois Irmãos mountain, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro · Sell with Art de Vivre

Sell your apartment in Leblon.

Quieter than Ipanema, more expensive, and the tightest supply in the South Zone. A Leblon sale is about scarcity — and about not underselling it.

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Selling in Leblon

Sell your apartment in Leblon.

Leblon carries the highest apartment prices per square metre in Rio, and it earns them on the two things that never come back into supply: space and quiet. The blocks between the beach and the lagoon — Rua Dias Ferreira and its restaurants, the leafy interior streets, the family buildings with real square-metrage — trade on scarcity. Good units here are held for a long time, which means when one comes up, the buyers are ready.

For a seller that's the whole story: the demand is there, the risk is leaving money on the table by mispricing or presenting the apartment as if it were anywhere else. Leblon buyers are discerning and often local; they know the buildings, the floors and the going rate better than any portal. Selling well here means pricing to the specific building and reaching the handful of people actually looking — not casting wide and discounting later.

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Scarcity is your leverage — price to it.

The Leblon premium is real, but it is building-specific and floor-specific. A high unit in a sought address on a quiet street and a lower flat over a busy corner are different markets inside the same neighbourhood. We value against the closings in your building and its close peers over the last twelve months — verified, not asking prices — and we're candid when an owner's number is above what the last real sale supports. Over-asking in Leblon doesn't fetch more; it just makes the apartment stale.

Because the buyer pool is small and knowledgeable, discretion often works in your favour. We can take a Leblon apartment quietly to a shortlist first — the buyers we already know are looking on these blocks — and only widen it if we need to. That protects the price and keeps your business private.

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One broker, the whole file.

A Leblon sale usually involves a lawyer, a notary, the ITBI transfer tax, the capital-gains filing and — for the many owners who live abroad — moving the proceeds out of Brazil. We run it as one file rather than handing you a list of numbers to chase. Charlie is CRECI-licensed and has closed across the South Zone since 2011, and he's the person who reads your enquiry and stays on it to completion.

If you're weighing whether to sell now at all, the Calculadora de ROI lets you compare holding-and-letting against selling on your own numbers before you decide.

Three ways to list

Sell it, rent it, or both.

What a mandate includes →

Listado de venta

En mercado abierto o fuera de mercado

Priced against comps we can show you, photographed and presented to our buyers — quietly to a shortlist, or openly across the portals. Your call which.

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Serviced rental

Earn while it's listed

If the numbers say your apartment earns more furnished than it costs to hold, we can run it as a serviced short-stay — fully managed — while the sale campaign runs. Live nightly rates sit on the rentals, never quoted blind.

How management works →

Doble vía

Both, in parallel

List for sale and let it by the night at the same time, so the apartment carries itself until the right offer lands. One mandate, one point of contact.

The mandate, explained →

Conviene saber

Questions sellers ask.

Is Leblon really Rio's most expensive neighbourhood?

By apartment price per square metre, Leblon is consistently at or near the top of the Rio market, ahead of Ipanema. What that's worth for your specific apartment still comes down to the building, the floor and the condition — which is what the valuation reads.

Will listing at a high price get me more?

Rarely, in Leblon. The buyer pool is small and well-informed; an apartment priced above the last real closings tends to sit and go stale rather than fetch a premium. We price to recent verified sales and let scarcity, not an inflated ask, do the work.

Can you sell my Leblon apartment discreetly?

Yes — and it often works best. We can take it quietly to a shortlist of buyers we already know are looking on these blocks before any open listing, protecting both the price and your privacy. We widen the campaign only if it's needed.

I live overseas — can you handle everything?

Yes. With a Brazilian power of attorney we and your lawyer handle the deed, the ITBI and the notary for you, and we coordinate repatriating the proceeds if you brought the money in properly when you bought. You sign once, from where you are.

Owners' library

Before you list.

Leblon neighbourhood guide →

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What is your Leblon apartment worth today?

Send the building and the unit and Charlie reads it himself — the same day — with a recommended price band, the comparable sales nearby, and the honest strategy for your asset. In English, Português, Français or Italiano.

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