Beachfront three-bedrooms at the surf end of Ipanema.
About the building
Edifício Arpoador in brief.
Edifício Arpoador sits at Vieira Souto 140, on the stretch of beachfront closest to the Arpoador rock. Where most of the avenue trades in 250 m²-plus plates, this 1966 building holds the avenue's compact tier: roughly 83 to 110 m², two and three bedrooms, with frente units looking straight down Posto 7 — the surf break.
That size band is what makes the building matter to a buyer. A 110 m² three-bedroom here listed at R$ 5.3M — around R$ 48,000 per square meter — which is real Vieira Souto pricing, but at an absolute ticket roughly a third of what the big-plate buildings up the avenue ask. It is the practical entry point to a beachfront address in Ipanema.
AddressAv. Vieira Souto 140, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro — 22420-002
Distance to
What's around it.
Walk and drive times to the things that decide where you live in Rio — beach,
metro, airports, neighborhood anchors.
Praia de Ipanema · Posto 70 min · crosses the avenue
Metrô Gen. Osório (L1)5 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport19 min by car
Galeão (GIG)34 min by car
Bar Astor (Vieira Souto 110)1 min walk
Pedra do Arpoador7 min walk
On the map
Edifício Arpoador located.
Av. Vieira Souto 140, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro — 22420-002
Delivered in 1966, in the same build-out decade that completed the Arpoador end of Vieira Souto. The building took its name from the headland two blocks east — the rock that splits Ipanema from Copacabana and gives this corner of the beach its sunrise crowd.
Ipanema vista do Arpoador · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Six decades of continuous residential use. Common areas have been renovated in cycles; the compact unit grid is unchanged, which keeps the building's resale market liquid by Vieira Souto standards — smaller tickets turn over faster than the avenue's estate-sized plates.
Praia de Ipanema · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)Praia de Ipanema, com vista do Morro Dois Irmãos e da Pedra da Gávea · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Rental yield · short-stay
What a unit earns.
Beachfront 2–3BR at the Arpoador end. Réveillon fireworks framing and the Posto 7 sunrise crowd keep shoulder seasons stronger than mid-Ipanema.
Nightly rateR$ 1,100 – R$ 3,200Low → high season
Avg occupancy79%12-month average
Gross yield8.4%On purchase price
Indicative estimates based on comparable short-stay units — not a guarantee of income or occupancy. Actual returns vary with unit, season and management.
Who's lived here
Notable residents.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Surf-and-media carioca owners
The Posto 7 frontage has drawn a consistent thread of owners from Rio's surf, sport and television circles; the building is a known quantity in that market.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
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