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“Flipping” Land: How to Buy Plots in Emerging Buenos Aires Areas and Sell Within 18 Months

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Land flipping involves identifying and acquiring undervalued plots, preparing them for development and reselling them within 12 to 18 months.
  • The model targets emerging and transforming corridors in Buenos Aires, rather than saturated premium avenues.
  • Investors absorb the legal and negotiating work involved in consolidating plots, then sell developers a construction-ready asset at a premium.

A new real estate strategy is gaining momentum in Buenos Aires urban corridors undergoing consolidation and redevelopment: buy land with underused value, organize it, and sell it to a developer within 12 to 18 months.

Tomas Cabuli, founder of Flipping Arquitectura, describes the approach as “an urban arbitrage and risk-mitigation strategy,” rather than passive speculation or a conventional property purchase. The investor identifies parcels, resolves the issues that make them difficult to use, and transfers a cleaner, legally secure asset to a builder or developer.

It is an urban arbitrage and risk-mitigation strategy.

· Tomas CabuliThe founder of Flipping Arquitectura defines the land-flipping model.

That work can involve negotiating with heirs, dealing with stalled probate proceedings, or bringing several parcels together. Developers, Cabuli says, want to focus on their core business: building and selling square meters. The strategic investor takes on the initial friction, provides quick liquidity, and charges a premium for making the land ready to use.

The real estate developer needs to focus on its core business, which is building and selling square meters.

· Tomas CabuliCabuli explains why investors take on the work of consolidating difficult land parcels.

The opportunity is not concentrated on Buenos Aires’ already saturated premium avenues. Cabuli points instead to the spillover areas around those neighborhoods, especially specific zones where the Urban Planning Code allows developers to optimize buildable volume and where residential demand remains latent.

The target customer is not a family seeking a plot for a home. It is a medium- or high-density developer looking for standardized-front plots, unusual parcels or corner lots that can maximize saleable space. The product being sold, Cabuli argues, is not simply land, but projected construction capacity combined with legal certainty.

You are not selling a simple plot of land; you are selling projected construction capacity and legal certainty.

· Tomas CabuliHe describes the value offered to medium- and high-density developers.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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