Ilha Pura.
The 2016 Olympic Village, now Barra's newest planned neighborhood.
Barra da Tijuca · Rio de Janeiro
About the building
Ilha Pura in brief.
Ilha Pura is the former Vila dos Atletas — the village that housed the world's athletes during the Rio 2016 Games, converted into a master-planned residential neighborhood of 31 buildings and 3,604 apartments on Avenida Salvador Allende, next to the Olympic Park. Condominiums inside the complex (Millenio, Elos, Viure, Pura) share a landscaped private park between the buildings.
This is the value entry on this list, and deliberately so: 77–160 m² two-to-four-bedroom units and duplex coberturas to 250 m², with current asking prices from roughly R$ 721K to R$ 1.78M — around R$ 10–13K per m², a third of beachfront Barra and a sixth of Leblon. The buildings are 2016 construction: full accessibility, generous common areas, new systems.
What a buyer should weigh: the beach is a 15-minute drive, the surrounding Barra Olímpica district is still building out its street life, and resale liquidity is thinner than on the beachfront. The rental side is the compensation — the Olympic Park arena calendar feeds steady short-stay demand.
Address
Av. Salvador Allende 3200, Barra da Tijuca (Barra Olímpica), Rio de Janeiro — 22793-082
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.
Parque Olímpico
5 min by car · walkable
Praia da Barra / Reserva
15 min by car
Metrô Jardim Oceânico (L4) via BRT
25 min (BRT + metro)
Santos Dumont Airport
45 min by car
Galeão (GIG)
40 min by car (Linha Amarela)
Village Mall restaurants
15 min by car
On the map
Ilha Pura located.
Av. Salvador Allende 3200, Barra da Tijuca (Barra Olímpica), Rio de Janeiro — 22793-082
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History
How it got here.
Built 2012–2016 as the Athletes' Village for the Rio Olympics by Carvalho Hosken and Odebrecht Realizações Imobiliárias, with R$ 2.3 billion in financing from Caixa Econômica Federal. During the Games the 31 buildings housed roughly 18,000 athletes and staff.
The post-Games conversion was famously slow: by the time of the Olympics only about 6% of the units had sold, and Brazilian business press spent years covering the inventory overhang. That overhang is precisely what kept prices accessible — units came to market gradually, renovated from athlete configuration to standard residential plans.
A decade on, the complex has settled into its role as Barra Olímpica's anchor residential address, with the surrounding district absorbing arenas, offices and retail.
Rental yield · short-stay
What a unit earns.
Typical 2BR near the Olympic Park. Arena calendar and event weeks drive the high end; the low purchase price is what makes the gross yield work.
Nightly rate
R$ 280 – R$ 750
Low → high season
Avg occupancy
64%
12-month average
Gross yield
7.4%
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.
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