Edifício Praia de Botafogo.
The last residential delivery on the bay — for 53 years.
Botafogo · Rio de Janeiro
About the building
Edifício Praia de Botafogo in brief.
Edifício Praia de Botafogo sits on Praia de Botafogo with the postcard frame of the city behind it: Sugarloaf rising directly across the bay, the curve of Enseada de Botafogo at the door. Delivered in 1971, the building was the last residential project completed on Praia de Botafogo for the next 53 years — until the Enseada launch broke the hiatus.
That generational pause is the entire investment thesis. Inventory is finite, supply doesn't grow, and the few apartments on the bayfront with this view across to Sugarloaf cannot be replicated until the next launch generation catches up. Resales are intermittent and largely off-portal.
Address
Praia de Botafogo 430, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro — 22250-040
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 Botafogo
0 min · across avenue
Metrô Botafogo (L1 + L2)
5 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport
10 min by car
Galeão (GIG)
26 min by car
Pão de Açúcar cable car
8 min by car
Botafogo Praia Shopping
3 min walk
On the map
Edifício Praia de Botafogo located.
Praia de Botafogo 430, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro — 22250-040
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History
How it got here.
Delivered in 1971 at the end of Botafogo's mid-20th-century residential build-out. The neighborhood's transition to a primarily commercial and corporate district through the 1970s and 1980s shut off the pipeline for new residential towers on the bay — Edifício Praia de Botafogo was effectively the closing chapter of that residential era.
Through the next five decades the building has stayed in its original residential use, with progressive systems and common-area modernizations. The bay-view orientation has been the constant: most units face the water directly with Sugarloaf as the visual anchor.
The Enseada launch in 2024-2025 — the first new residential project on Praia de Botafogo since this building — has reset awareness around the existing stock; transactions in this building have picked up meaningfully as a result.
Recent transactions
What units have closed for.
Botafogo bayfront comps. ADV-verified or sourced from registry filings. Recent activity meaningfully up since the Enseada launch repositioned the strip.
Date
Floor / position
Size
Sale price (BRL)
USD
R$/m²
2026-03
10º (frente)
180 m²
R$ 6.4M
$1.25M
R$ 35,600
2025-11
06º (frente)
145 m²
R$ 4.2M
$820K
R$ 29,000
2025-05
14º (cobertura)
320 m²
R$ 11.8M
$2.31M
R$ 36,900
Rental yield · short-stay
What a unit earns.
Frente 2-3BR with Sugarloaf view. The bay-and-Sugarloaf frame outperforms generic Zona Sul listings on photo conversion; nightly skews higher per m² than other Botafogo stock.
Nightly rate
R$ 850 – R$ 2,400
Low → high season
Avg occupancy
74%
12-month average
Gross yield
8.6%
On purchase price
Who's lived here
Notable residents.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile. No address-level identification of current residents.
Long-tenured Botafogo families
Original-owner families have remained for two and three generations; the bay-view-and-Sugarloaf combination keeps turnover low.
Academic, medical and professional residents
Botafogo's hospital cluster (Samaritano, Pró-Cardíaco) and proximity to Centro have anchored a steady professional resident base.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
We currently have no mandates inside Edifício Praia de Botafogo. Inventory in this building moves rarely and often off-portal. Tell us you're watching it — we'll come to you the moment a unit becomes available.
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