Palácio das Flores sits at Vieira Souto 86 — the first beachfront stretch coming off Arpoador, a few hundred meters from the rock where crowds gather for the sunset. Built in 1961, it is one of the lowest buildings on the avenue: five floors, 25 units, which on this street means the building itself is a rarity. Nothing this low gets built on Vieira Souto anymore.
The unit mix is the widest on the avenue — from 45 m² studios to 490 m² plates, topped by a 1,040 m² penthouse. That spread gives buyers a rare entry ticket to a Vieira Souto address: the small frente units trade well below the avenue's headline numbers while carrying the same sand-and-postcode premium.
AddressAv. Vieira Souto 86, 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 do Arpoador2 min walk
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
Parque Garota de Ipanema6 min walk
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Edifício Palácio das Flores located.
Av. Vieira Souto 86, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro — 22420-002
Delivered in 1961, in the first construction wave that turned the Arpoador end of Vieira Souto into a built avenue. The five-floor height reflects the era's zoning — later buildings on the same street doubled and tripled it, which froze Palácio das Flores as one of the few low-rise survivors with direct beach frontage.
Ipanema vista do Arpoador · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
The building has remained a single residential condominium since delivery, with the original 1961 structure preserved through maintenance cycles rather than reconstruction. Access control and monitoring systems were modernized in the 2010s.
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.
Typical small frente unit. Arpoador sunset traffic and Réveillon keep the calendar tight; the 45–90 m² units are the workhorses.
Nightly rateR$ 950 – R$ 2,900Low → high season
Avg occupancy76%12-month average
Gross yield7.9%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.
Arpoador-anchored long-term owners
The small unit count and 60-plus years of continuous residential use have kept a stable core of original-family ownership; resales are infrequent and unit-specific.
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