La Paz, Bolivia
Bolivia keeps ownership in a judiciary-run register, Derechos Reales, that will not tell a stranger who owns a building: every certificate of ownership, title history or encumbrance needs the owner's signed form, a power of attorney, a court order, or a memorial proving legitimate interest.
8 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 17 sources · 7 tier A · 1 tier B · prepared 2026-10-20
Title in Bolivia is recorded in the Registro Público de Derechos Reales (DDRR), run by the Consejo de la Magistratura of the judiciary, where each property has a folio real (matrícula). The register is not open to the curious: its own procedures page says certificates of ownership, title history (tradición), encumbrances and the updated folio real are issued in person to the owner on Form 003, or to third parties only with a memorial, notarised power or court order 'acreditando interés legal'. There is no online owner search and no bulk ownership file.
The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Grande del Pueblo (Presidential palace / seat of the Executive) Calle Bolívar 438, Zona 2, beside Plaza Murillo, La Paz |
Civic | Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Boliviano) Spanish Wikipedia's infobox gives the owner as 'Estado Boliviano' and the use as seat of the Executive; 29 floors, 131 m, built 2014–2018 and inaugurated 9 Aug 2018 at a stated cost of 250 million bolivianos (about US$34 million); contractor Constructora TAURO. The cost is a construction cost, not a purchase price. It replaced functions of the adjacent Palacio Quemado. |
Government | —A |
| Palacio Legislativo (old Legislative Palace) and the Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional East side of Plaza Murillo, La Paz |
Civic | Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional Spanish Wikipedia's infobox names the Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional as owner. The palace was built in the early 20th century on land expropriated from the Capilla de Nuestra Señora de Loreto under President José Manuel Pando; since August 2021 the Assembly sits in a new building beside it and the old palace is largely unused, opened occasionally as a museum. The new building's owner and cost were not established from a source opened. |
Government | —A |
| Estadio Hernando Siles (national stadium) Miraflores, La Paz |
Institutional | Gobierno Autónomo Departamental de La Paz (GADLP) Spanish Wikipedia's infobox names the Departmental Government of La Paz (GADLP) as owner and the Servicio Departamental de Deportes (SEDEDE) as operator; capacity 41,143. In 1927 the President ordered the expropriation of some 40,000 m² in Miraflores for the stadium, which opened 16 Jan 1930 and was remodelled in 1977. Home ground of Club Bolívar and The Strongest. |
Government | —A |
| Mi Teleférico (urban cable-car network, La Paz–El Alto) Network across La Paz and El Alto; 38 stations, 32 km |
Civic | Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Servicios y Vivienda (operated by Empresa Estatal de Transporte por Cable Mi Teleférico) Spanish Wikipedia names the Ministry of Public Works, Services and Housing as owner and the state company Mi Teleférico as administrator; built turnkey by Doppelmayr and its subsidiary Doppelmayr Bolivia S.A., financed with an internal loan from the Banco Central de Bolivia; first (Red) line opened 30 May 2014. The first three lines took 30,100 m² across 11 stations. Part of the network and many stations lie in El Alto, outside the La Paz municipality. |
Government | —A |
| Torres del Poeta and Las Torres Mall Avenida del Poeta, Sopocachi, La Paz mall: 'más de 22 mil metros cuadrados' (s9) · 36 floors |
Mixed use | Compañía de Jesús en Bolivia, Fe y Alegría, Acción Cultural Loyola (ACLO) and Defensa de Niños y Niñas Internacional (DNI) — the project partners The Jesuits' own news page (2018, from ANF) says the condominium was 'una iniciativa de' Fe y Alegría, the Compañía de Jesús, ACLO and DNI, and that mall income will fund Fe y Alegría's social works and schools; Spanish Wikipedia lists the same four as 'Propietario'. Four towers (36, 34, 20, 10 floors; tallest 178 m) with 204 apartments, 74 offices and 74 shops per Wikipedia. Apartments and offices sold to buyers are not attributed here; the stake each partner holds was not stated. Tier B: ownership wording combines s9 ('initiative') with s8 ('propietario'). |
Institution | —B |
| Green Tower Avenida Ballivián, Calacoto, La Paz 55,000 m² total (Wikipedia) · 46 floors |
Mixed use | Not established the jurisdiction does not disclose owners Bolivia's tallest building (181 m, opened 2022). Spanish Wikipedia says it was a venture of Compañía de Inversiones Comversa S.A. with its founding businessman, financed by private equity and bank credit, at a stated cost of US$50 million; its infobox gives the owner as 'Green Tower Work & Life' (a brand, not a registered entity found). It has 17 residential and 17 office floors whose units are sold, so ownership is split; the Derechos Reales folios are open only to owners and parties proving legal interest. |
Not established | —A |
| Torre Girasoles Avenida 6 de Agosto, San Jorge, La Paz |
Mixed use | Not established the jurisdiction does not disclose owners Spanish Wikipedia: 40 floors and 155 m, built Aug 2010–17 Jun 2013 at a stated cost of US$50 million, mostly residential with offices, a hotel and a mall on the lower floors; Bolivia's tallest building on completion. No owner or developer is named in the article (the infobox owner field is a placeholder '1'), and the residential units are individually owned. Not established. |
Not established | —A |
| Monoblock Central, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) Avenida Villazón, Plaza del Bicentenario, La Paz |
Institutional | Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) Spanish Wikipedia describes the Monoblock Central as the first building constructed for UMSA, the public university, inaugurated in 1947; it is the university's main building in the city centre. The university's wider land holdings were not quantified from a source opened. |
Institution | —A |
The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
La Paz publishes no assessed values by parcel: property tax (IPBI) is levied on an owner's self-assessment (autoavalúo) against municipal value tables, and Derechos Reales opens no folio to the public. The only city-wide value figures found are the municipality's own balance sheet in its 2008 bond prospectus.
Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
La Paz's largest landholders that a public record names are public bodies: the municipality (GAMLP), the Departmental Government (stadium), the national State and its ministries (the presidential tower, the cable-car network), the Legislative Assembly and the public university. Because Derechos Reales opens folios only to owners and parties with legal interest, the one public window onto who holds a folio is a statute: municipal and State land can be sold only with a law of the Assembly, and those laws print the folio number and area. No register-based ranking of private landholders exists. Laws authorising sales to private buyers also print those buyers' names; they are not reproduced here.
| Name | Type | Holdings as stated |
|---|---|---|
| Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de La Paz (GAMLP) The 2008 municipal bond prospectus filed with the securities regulator gives the municipality's fixed assets at Bs 2,869,216,866 (30 Sep 2008; all fixed assets, land, buildings and infrastructure together) and net worth Bs 2,597,466,929. Ley 887 (2017) authorised the sale of two lots (253.13 m² and 241.02 m²) carved from a municipal institutional property of 1,399,248.05 m² in Achachicala, registered at Derechos Reales La Paz under folio real 2.01.0.99.0023954 (Ordenanza GAMLP 527/2012). |
Government | Fixed assets (activo fijo, bienes de uso) Bs 2,869,216,866 at Sept 2008; one Achachicala folio of 1,399,248.05 m²A |
| Plurinational State of Bolivia — Executive (Estado Boliviano) Spanish Wikipedia names the State as owner of the presidential tower on Plaza Murillo (2018), alongside the historic Palacio Quemado. |
Government | Casa Grande del Pueblo: 29 floors, 131 m, built for Bs 250 millionA |
| Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Servicios y Vivienda / Empresa Estatal de Transporte por Cable Mi Teleférico Spanish Wikipedia names the Ministry as owner and the state company as administrator; financed by an internal Banco Central de Bolivia loan. Stations are split between La Paz and El Alto. |
Government | 38 stations, 32 km network (La Paz and El Alto); 30,100 m² of station surface on the first three linesA |
| Gobierno Autónomo Departamental de La Paz (GADLP) Spanish Wikipedia names GADLP as owner and SEDEDE as operator of the national stadium in Miraflores. |
Government | Estadio Hernando Siles on some 40,000 m² expropriated in 1927A |
| Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional Spanish Wikipedia names the Assembly as owner of the old Legislative Palace, built on land expropriated from the Capilla de Nuestra Señora de Loreto. |
Government | Palacio Legislativo, Plaza Murillo (and a new Assembly building in use since 2021)A |
| Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) The public university's main building per Spanish Wikipedia. Its campus land total was not found in a source opened. |
Institution | Monoblock Central (1947), the university's main city-centre buildingA |
| Compañía de Jesús en Bolivia, with Fe y Alegría, ACLO and DNI A religious order and its affiliated charities as developers and partners of Sopocachi's Torres del Poeta complex; the Jesuits' own news page says mall income funds Fe y Alegría schools and social works nationally. Stakes not stated. |
Institution | Torres del Poeta: four towers; Las Torres Mall 'más de 22 mil metros cuadrados'A |
Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Bolivia publishes no builder league table, and no source opened gives unit counts by developer for La Paz. New housing in the city is mostly apartment towers sold off-plan by private developers into condominium (propiedad horizontal) ownership, plus self-build on the hillsides; the State's housing agency (AEVIVIENDA) builds social housing mostly outside the municipality. The figures below are what each project's own record states, not market shares.
| Name | Type | As stated |
|---|---|---|
| Compañía de Jesús en Bolivia / Fe y Alegría (Torres del Poeta partners) Spanish Wikipedia gives the complex's mix; the Jesuits' page names the four partner bodies. Completed 2018 in Sopocachi. |
Institution | 204 apartments, 74 offices, 74 shops in four towersB |
| Compañía de Inversiones Comversa S.A. (Green Tower) Spanish Wikipedia names Comversa as the venture behind the Green Tower (2018–2022), financed with private contributions and bank credit. A Bolivian private investment company; its other La Paz units were not counted. |
Private company | 17 residential floors in a 55,000 m², 46-floor tower; stated cost US$50 millionA |
| Agencia Estatal de Vivienda (AEVIVIENDA) The State's housing agency lists its current sale projects on its home page; the two in the La Paz department are in El Alto and Mecapaca, neighbouring municipalities, not in the city of La Paz. No unit count for La Paz municipality was found. |
Government | Apartments advertised from Bs 243,600 (El Alto, Zona Mercedario) and from US$33,630 (Mecapaca)A |
Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
No REIT or listed property trust holds La Paz offices or malls, and a web search of the securities regulator's (ASFI) prospectuses found no shopping-centre issuer for the city. The largest modern office and retail floor space sits in mixed towers whose commercial floors are held by their developers or sold unit by unit. Only two holders are established from a source opened; the city's largest mall by reported area, MegaCenter in Irpavi, has no owner from any readable source.
| Name | Type | Floor area as stated |
|---|---|---|
| Compañía de Jesús en Bolivia, Fe y Alegría, ACLO and DNI — Las Torres Mall The Jesuits' news page (June 2018) calls Las Torres Mall Bolivia's largest shopping centre on opening and says its income will fund the partners' social works; part of the Torres del Poeta condominium. Two office towers in the same complex. |
Institution | 'más de 22 mil metros cuadrados' (mall)A |
| Compañía de Inversiones Comversa S.A. — Green Tower Spanish Wikipedia: 17 office floors and the six lower floors of lobbies, shops and restaurants; Comversa was the developer. Whether Comversa still holds the office and retail floors or has sold them was not established. |
Private company | 17 office floors plus retail podium in a 55,000 m² towerB |
Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- DDRR fee (arancel) for a certificado de propiedad, folio real actualizado or certificado alodial: the register's procedures page says 'aranceles y valores' are paid at the cashier but prints no amount, and one web search found no official tariff page.
- MegaCenter (Irpavi), described in search results as an 80,000 m² mall opened in 2010 with a US$24 million investment by a Spanish-led consortium (LatinNews, Aug 2018): LatinNews's terms are a PDF under /images/, which its robots.txt disallows, so the article and its terms were not read and the owner is not recorded.
- Banco Central de Bolivia headquarters (111 m, 29 floors, 1980 per Wikipedia's list) — presumably owned by the BCB, but no page opened states the owner; bcb.gob.bo history URL returned 404.
- Owner and cost of the new Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional building (in use since Aug 2021) — no article opened.
- The 'core' statement that IPBI rests on self-assessment comes from the municipality's procedures list (lapaz.bo/inmuebles/, s17), which names 'Registro de autoavalúo' and 'Registro de valor libros y tablas'; the procedure pages themselves were not opened.
- Constructor of Torres del Poeta (Constec SRL, 106,431 m² built) appears in search results from an engineering firm's site whose terms were not read.
- Tembladerani stadium of Club Bolívar (municipal news, 2023 — authorisations granted, under construction): ownership and land title not established.
- Former USAID building in Obrajes — search results show a municipal expropriation approved and the central government disputing ownership; no source opened.
Sources
- Trámites en Derechos Reales — requisitos por trámite (items 35–53: certificados de tradición, propiedad, alodial, gravámenes, folio real actualizado, información rápida) — Consejo de la Magistratura — Registro Público de Derechos Reales · openA
- Form. DD.RR.DJ 003 — Declaración jurada, solicitud de servicios en línea (propiedad, alodial, gravamen, folio real actualizado) — Consejo de la Magistratura — Derechos Reales · openA
- Sección DDRR — servicios de Derechos Reales — Consejo de la Magistratura · openA
- Casa Grande del Pueblo — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Palacio Legislativo de Bolivia — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Estadio Hernando Siles — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Mi Teleférico — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Torres del Poeta — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Inauguración de "LasTorres Mall" promete ayudar al funcionamiento de obras sociales y de formación (19 Jun 2018, from ANF) — Compañía de Jesús en Bolivia (jesuitas.org.bo) · openA
- Green Tower (La Paz) — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Torre Girasoles — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Universidad Mayor de San Andrés — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Anexo:Edificios más altos de Bolivia — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Ley Nº 887 de 13 de enero de 2017 — enajenación de dos inmuebles del Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de La Paz (Achachicala) — LexiVox (Portal Jurídico Libre de Bolivia), text of the law · openA
- Prospecto — Emisión de Bonos Municipales del Gobierno Municipal de La Paz (US$12,000,000, 2008) — Autoridad de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (ASFI) · openA
- Agencia Estatal de Vivienda — sitio oficial (project listings and prices) — Agencia Estatal de Vivienda (AEVIVIENDA) · openA
- Inmuebles — trámites municipales (autoavalúo, fraccionamiento, transferencias) — Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de La Paz · openA