Quito, Ecuador
Quito sells anyone a property's owner for USD 4 to 7 a certificate from the municipal Registro de la Propiedad — but only through an account, a stated purpose and an accepted declaration, and only if you already know the owner's name; no free or bulk owner search exists.
11 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 32 sources · 8 tier A · 3 tier B · prepared 2026-10-20
Can you find out who owns it?
Ownership in Quito is recorded by the Registro de la Propiedad del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (RPDMQ), which since 9 June 2011 has been a special municipal unit rather than a private office. Its certificates are sold to anyone with an online SIRELQ account: a certificado de gravamen (description, owners, how acquired, all charges) costs USD 7 per right, a certificado de propiedad USD 4, and a bienes raíces certificate listing everything registered to a person or company USD 4. Requests are made by owner name or ID plus the registration date, require a stated purpose and acceptance of terms and a declaration of responsibility, and are answered in up to five working days. The municipal cadastre (Dirección Metropolitana de Catastro) values every parcel but publishes no owner list.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title searchUSD 7 per right for a certificado de gravamen del inmueble (owners, acquisition and charges); USD 4 per right for a certificado de propiedad; USD 4 per person for a certificado de bienes raíces (RPDMQ, fixed tariffs, Oct 2025)
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
- www.teleamazonas.com — “Queda prohibido ... El uso de robots, scrapers, crawlers u otras herramientas automatizadas para extraer contenidos o datos. ... Cualquier uso comercial de los contenidos publicados.”
- www.corporacionfavorita.com — “El Portal es para el uso personal y del usuario por lo que no podrá comercializarlo de manera alguna. ... los derechos de uso y explotación ... incluyendo su divulgación, publicación, reproducción, distribución y transformación, son propiedad exclusiva de Corporación Favorita.”
- www.infrapppworld.com (Aninver) — “[no right is conferred] of alteration, exploitation, reproduction, distribution or public communication of said contents without the prior express approval of Aninver or of the corresponding owners.”
- sirelq.registrodelapropiedadquito.gob.ec (RPDMQ SIRELQ) — “Each certificate request requires the user to 'Aceptar Términos y condiciones' and a 'Declaración de responsabilidad' and to state a purpose; the terms themselves sit behind the login and were not read. We did not request certificates.”
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carondelet Palace (Palacio de Carondelet) Plaza Grande (Plaza de la Independencia), Centro Histórico, Quito |
Civic | Not established a paid title search would answer it Seat of government and official residence of the President of Ecuador on the Plaza Grande, inside the UNESCO World Heritage historic centre (inscribed 1978). The colonial building was entirely demolished and rebuilt from 1956, per the Presidency's own book cited by Wikipedia. Wikipedia states its function, not its titleholder; no free public record naming the registered owner was found, and a Registro de la Propiedad certificate (USD 4–7) would be needed to state it. |
Not established | —A |
| Legislative Palace (Palacio Legislativo) — National Assembly Quito |
Civic | Not established a paid title search would answer it Seat of Ecuador's unicameral National Assembly (151 members); the Salón Plenario 'Nela Martínez' is inside the Palacio Legislativo. The façade mural 'Síntesis de la Historia Nacional' (550 pieces of grey marble-like stone) was unveiled with the building. The source states use, not title; the registered owner was not established from a free public record. |
Not established | —A |
| Government platforms — Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera and Plataforma Gubernamental de Desarrollo Social Quito |
Civic | Servicio de Gestión Inmobiliaria del Sector Público (Inmobiliar) — Republic of Ecuador Primicias (Nov 2019), from information Inmobiliar supplied: Inmobiliar keeps the Catastro Único de Bienes Inmuebles del Estado, then 4,467 properties with municipal valuations over USD 1,200 million, and 'Las plataformas Financiera y de Desarrollo Social, ubicadas en Quito, también están entre las propiedades más caras del Estado' — and, unlike other holdings, cannot be sold. A 2019 statement; Inmobiliar has since been absorbed into the Presidency, and its own site did not answer. No valuation per building is given. |
Government | —A |
| Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO) Tababela parish, Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (24 km from the urban area) 1,500 ha site; 70 ha built; international terminal 47,000 m² |
Land | Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito Wikipedia's infobox gives 'Propietario: Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito', operator Quiport; the text says its administration is 'concesionada a la empresa Quiport hasta el año 2041'. The 1,500 ha site was declared of public utility under the Hurtado government (1981–84). Corporación Quiport S.A. is the concessionaire, regulated by the municipal Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Servicios Aeroportuarios; Colombia's Odinsa took majority control in Dec 2015 (s12), when Aecon sold its 45.5% interest to Odinsa and CCR (s13). Ecuador's busiest airport (48.36% of passengers, 2013); 5,344,595 passengers in 2023. |
Government | —B |
| Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa Av. Naciones Unidas, El Batán, Iñaquito parish, Quito 35,258 seats; 35,000 m² athletics area |
Civic | Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito Opened 25 Nov 1951 as the Estadio Olímpico Municipal. Wikipedia's text says it 'es administrado por la Concentración Deportiva de Pichincha, gracias a la concesión del escenario por parte del Municipio de Quito', and calls the Concentración the 'concesionaria de uso y administración del estadio'. The infobox is muddled ('Propietario: Concentración Deportiva de Pichincha (concesionado por el Municipio...)'), so the Municipality is named as the conceding owner on the strength of the body text and the Concentración as concessionaire, tier B. Home ground of Ecuador's national team. Remodelling cost USD 30,416,766 (infobox). |
Government | —B |
| IQON La Carolina, north Quito (facing Parque La Carolina) over 50,000 m²; 130–133 m · 32 floors |
Residential | Not established a paid title search would answer it Quito's tallest building (133 m, 33 floors per the city list s16; 130 m and 32 floors per its own article), the first Bjarke Ingels Group building in South America, developed by the Ecuadorian promoter Uribe Schwarzkopf; built 2018–2023, cost 'no divulgado'. A residential condominium with commercial space and coworking: the apartments are owned unit by unit, and unit owners who are individuals are not named here. No unit-holding company is identified in a free source. |
Not established | —A |
| Universidad Central del Ecuador — Ciudad Universitaria Av. América y Av. Universitaria, centre-north Quito 94 ha campus |
Institutional | Universidad Central del Ecuador Public university founded 1620. Wikipedia: 'El Campus de la Universidad Central del Ecuador ocupa 94 hectáreas en el centro-norte de la ciudad de Quito', holding 18 of its 21 faculties and the administration building; the rector elected after the 1939 reopening 'adquirió los terrenos donde la universidad tiene su campus actualmente'. The medical, disability-sciences and biology faculties sit off-campus at El Dorado. |
Institution | —A |
| Quito Metro, Line 1 (Metro de Quito) Quitumbe (south) to El Labrador (north), Quito 22.6 km underground; 15 stations |
Civic | Empresa Pública Metropolitana Metro de Quito Infobox: 'Propietario: Empresa Pública Metropolitana Metro de Quito'; operators Transdev and Metro de Medellín Ltda. Opened 1 Dec 2023; 18 trains; 136,056 average riders (March 2024). Construction of the first phase began 19 Jan 2016 near the Quitumbe bus terminal; the main civil works were awarded to Acciona Infraestructuras on 1 Nov 2012. The operators are contractors, not owners. |
Government | —A |
| Parque Bicentenario (former Mariscal Sucre airport, Chaupicruz) North-central Quito 103 ha (55 ha of green areas) |
Land | Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito The city's own news service (Nov 2025): the Metropolitan Bicentenario park covers 103 ha; the municipal public-works company Epmmop maintains it, about 200,000 visitors a month, and 'el Municipio' is preparing studies for its 'repotenciación integral'. The source describes municipal control and planning of a metropolitan park rather than quoting a title, hence tier B. The redevelopment plan has not yet been presented. |
Government | —B |
| Quicentro Sur Av. Morán Valverde y Quitumbe Ñan, south Quito 223,005 m² floor area (infobox); 165,000 m² built on 10 ha (text) · 3 floors |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Opened 10 Aug 2010 and described as the largest mall in Ecuador: 350 shops, 12 anchors (Megamaxi, De Prati, Supercines …), 2,000 parking spaces. English Wikipedia's infobox gives 'Owner: DK Management Services', but DK Management is described elsewhere as the company that administers the Quicentro malls, and management is not ownership; the landholding entity was not established from a free register or filing. |
Not established | —A |
| Basílica del Voto Nacional Centro Histórico, Quito 115 m |
Institutional | Not established a paid title search would answer it Neo-Gothic Catholic basilica (built 1887–1924, dedicated 1988), the city's second-tallest structure at 115 m (s16). Archdiocese of Quito; the Oblate Fathers (Padres Oblatos) took charge of construction in 1901 at the archbishop's request; in 1895 the State imposed a salt-purchase tax to fund the works. It also houses the national pantheon of heads of state. The source names the religious order and archdiocese but not the registered titleholder. |
Not established | —A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Quito's cadastre is municipal (Dirección Metropolitana de Catastro) and revalued every two years under the COOTAD; it values parcels but publishes no owners. The register and cadastre were being linked so that requests could be made 'únicamente con el número de predio' (s32), building a folio real.
Parcels in the cadastre1,002,534 (start 2023); 1,014,271 expected for 2024
Urban and rural predios; Quito Informa, 20 Dec 2023 (s26).
Total cadastral valuationover USD 92,000 million
'La valoración catastral de Quito supera los USD 92 mil millones', on approval of the 2024–25 land-value ordinance; Quito Informa, 20 Dec 2023 (s26).
Property-tax exemption thresholdUSD 70,000 total holdings per owner
Owners whose predios total no more than USD 70,000 pay no predial tax (2024); 65% of predios exempt. Quito Informa (s26).
2026 revaluation effect74% of tax bills updated; 90% rise by up to USD 20, average USD 13
Rates unchanged from 2025; the change comes from the two-yearly revaluation. Quito Informa, 6 Jan 2026 (s27).
Register volume321,828 certificates and 93,540 inscriptions (2025)
RPDMQ accountability report, 22 May 2026 (s6); 297,598 certificates in 2024, 75.28% of them gravámenes (s5).
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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.
Quito's largest identifiable holders are public. The Municipality owns the airport site at Tababela (concessioned to Quiport until 2041), the 103-ha Bicentenario park on the old airport, the Atahualpa stadium and a scatter of historic-centre buildings, and sells off land it holds to regularise informal settlements. The State's property is meant to sit in Inmobiliar's single catastro, which in 2019 held 4,467 properties nationwide, including Quito's two government platforms. The Universidad Central's 94-ha campus is the largest institutional holding found. No ranking of private landholders exists: the register answers one name at a time and the cadastre publishes no owners.
| Name | Type | Holding as the source states it |
|---|---|---|
| Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito Airport ownership per Wikipedia's infobox (s11). Bicentenario's 103 ha are maintained by the municipal company Epmmop (s22). The Centro zonal administration reported 35 of 'un total de 188 predios, de propiedad de la Zona Manuela Sáenz' under maintenance in Jan 2023, including 16 shops in the Centro Comercial La Manzana, to be let to the public (s24). In 2025 the Council approved direct sale of 82 lots of the 'El Bosque' settlement on the former Hacienda Tajamar in Calderón, 'el Municipio como propietario del bien inmueble' (s25). No city-wide inventory total was found. |
Government | Mariscal Sucre airport site, 1,500 ha; Parque Bicentenario, 103 ha; 188 predios held by the Zona Centro 'Manuela Sáenz' administration alone (2023)A |
| Servicio de Gestión Inmobiliaria del Sector Público (Inmobiliar) — Republic of Ecuador Primicias, on figures Inmobiliar supplied: most holdings are in Quito and Guayaquil; only 114 are valued above USD 1 million. Quito holdings named include the Plataformas Financiera and de Desarrollo Social, 'La Licuadora' (Ministry of Tourism), shops and parking in the El Triángulo building on Av. República y Diego de Almagro, and 'más de 50 departamentos' in the Millenium Torre in the north. Many came from banks that failed in the 1990s. A 2019 count; the agency has since been folded into the Presidency and its site did not answer. |
Government | 4,467 properties nationwide, municipal valuations over USD 1,200 million (Nov 2019); 2,397 plots worth USD 373 million; 707 parking spaces and 432 storeroomsA |
| Universidad Central del Ecuador Public university; the campus holds 18 of 21 faculties; a 1939-era rector 'adquirió los terrenos donde la universidad tiene su campus actualmente'. Further faculties at the El Dorado campus. |
Institution | 94 ha Ciudad Universitaria, centre-north QuitoA |
| Empresa Pública Metropolitana Metro de Quito Owner of the metro per Wikipedia's infobox; Transdev and Metro de Medellín are operating contractors. |
Government | Line 1: 22.6 km underground, 15 stationsA |
| Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Hábitat y Vivienda (EPMHV) The municipal housing company develops social housing and transfers title to buyers: beneficiaries are asked to complete 'pago, escrituración e inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad'. Its holding is transitional — units pass to private owners once deeded. |
Government | 863 units built in Ciudad Bicentenario stage 2 (Feb 2018); 309 deeded and paid by Jul 2018A |
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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.
Quito's new-home market is built by private promoters selling apartments off-plan, with the municipal EPMHV and the national MIDUVI subsidy programmes at the social end. No official builder league table exists; consultancy MarketWatch counts projects and stock by city. Quito led Ecuador with 605 of 1,013 residential projects in 2024 and 36% of nearly 27,000 units on offer, with a 13% monthly absorption rate (s30); in July 2025 there were 9,863 new homes for sale in Quito, 7% fewer than in July 2023 (s31). Builder figures below come from each firm's own statements.
| Name | Type | Scale as stated |
|---|---|---|
| Uribe Schwarzkopf Describes itself as 'una empresa familiar, dedicada al diseño y la arquitectura' that 'ha desarrollado más de 200 proyectos' (s29). It promoted IQON (BIG; s15), and Wikipedia's tallest-buildings list cites its project pages for Unique, Qorner, One and Yoo Quito — four more of the city's eight tallest (s16). It works with international architects (its site has pages for BIG, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Safdie, MVRDV and Kengo Kuma). A family firm, not a fund. |
Family / private | 200+ projects over 47 years; developer of IQON, Quito's tallest buildingA |
| Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Hábitat y Vivienda (EPMHV) The City's housing company; buyers finance through BIESS or other banks and use MIDUVI bonds. A 2018 figure; no later total was found. |
Government | 863 social-housing units, Ciudad Bicentenario stage 2 (completed Feb 2018)A |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Quito has no listed REITs. Its shopping centres are held by retail groups and their property vehicles and run by management companies; office towers are mostly sold floor by floor as condominiums, so each unit holder appears only on its own register entry. The largest mall group found from a free source is the retailer Corporación Favorita; the State, through Inmobiliar, holds shops and parking in Quito office buildings. Figures are thin because the companies regulator's filings were not used.
| Name | Type | Holdings as stated |
|---|---|---|
| Corporación Favorita C.A. Its brands page has a 'Centros comerciales' division with those nine names and says 'Nuestros centros comerciales reúnen comercio, servicios y experiencias'. The page gives no locations, stakes or floor areas, and 'our' does not state title for each mall; its 2024 annual-report PDF returned 403. Hence tier B and no figure for Quito alone. |
Public company | lists 9 'centros comerciales' as its own: City Mall, Mall El Jardín, Mall de los Andes, Mall del Norte, Mall del Sol, Mall del Sur, Plaza Batán, Village Plaza, Wayra Plaza (not all in Quito)B |
| Servicio de Gestión Inmobiliaria del Sector Público (Inmobiliar) Primicias 2019, on Inmobiliar's own figures; much of it came from banks closed in the 1990s. |
Government | shops and parking in El Triángulo (Av. República y Diego de Almagro); 50+ apartments in Millenium Torre; 707 parking spaces and 432 storerooms nationwide (2019)A |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The State's title to the Carondelet Palace and the Legislative Palace — near-certain but not stated by any free record opened; a Registro de la Propiedad certificate would settle it.
- Quiport's current shareholders: search results put Odinsa at 46.5% (2023, in a platform with Macquarie Asset Management), but Odinsa's and Grupo Argos's sites blocked automation, so no current stake is published here.
- Who holds title to Quicentro Shopping, Quicentro Sur, El Recreo, Condado Shopping and Scala — DK Management Services runs the Quicentros, but management is not ownership.
- Hotel owners (Hilton Colón, JW Marriott, Swissôtel) — not researched from a free filing; the Superintendencia de Compañías was not used.
- A 2026 cadastre total: search results cite 1,037,877 predios and a valuation over USD 101,000 million for 2026, from a press report whose terms could not be read; the official figure used is the Dec 2023 one (USD 92,000 million+).
- Whether Quito publishes a cadastre dataset on its open-data portal — the portal returned 403.
- A current Inmobiliar inventory — the 4,467-property figure is from 2019.
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Sources
- Costos de certificados registrales son fijos, evite engaños y estafas (21 Oct 2025) — Registro de la Propiedad del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (RPDMQ) · openA
- Certificado de gravamen del inmueble — qué es, costo, requisitos — RPDMQ · openA
- Certificado de Propiedad del Inmueble — qué es, costo, requisitos — RPDMQ · openA
- Certificado de bienes raíces — qué es, costo, requisitos — RPDMQ · openA
- Rendición de cuentas 2024 — presentación (Unidad Especial Municipal since Resolución A0017, 9 Jun 2011; 2024 volumes) — RPDMQ · openA
- Registro de la Propiedad supera metas en 2025 (Rendición de Cuentas 2025, 22 May 2026) — RPDMQ · openA
- Más de 214 mil certificados registrales emitidos en el primer semestre de 2026 (30 Jul 2026) — RPDMQ · openA
- Para saber quién es el dueño de un bien inmueble solicita el certificado de propiedad del inmueble (1 Jul 2025) — RPDMQ · openA
- Palacio de Carondelet — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Sucre — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Quiport — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Aecon sells 45.5% stake in Quito International Airport concessionaire — InfraPPP World (Aninver) · openA
- Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Edificio IQON — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Anexo:Edificios más altos de Quito — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Universidad Central del Ecuador — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Metro de Quito — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Basílica del Voto Nacional — Wikipedia (es) · openA
- Quicentro Sur — Wikipedia (en) · openA
- Marcas — Centros comerciales — Corporación Favorita C.A. · openA
- El Parque Bicentenario se prepara para una nueva etapa (19 Nov 2025) — Quito Informa — Municipio del DMQ · openA
- El Estado tiene USD 1.200 millones en terrenos, casas, edificios, bodegas... (11 Nov 2019) — Primicias · openA
- 35 inmuebles del Centro se encuentran en mantenimiento para su uso (12 Jan 2023) — Quito Informa — Municipio del DMQ · openA
- Concejo Metropolitano aprobó la venta de 82 predios del Lote A 36, en Calderón (10 Apr 2025) — Quito Informa — Municipio del DMQ · openA
- El 65% de los predios estarán exentos del impuesto predial en Quito en 2024 (20 Dec 2023) — Quito Informa — Municipio del DMQ · openA
- Impuesto predial: ¿Por qué cambian los valores cada dos años? (6 Jan 2026) — Quito Informa — Municipio del DMQ · openA
- 309 viviendas ha entregado el Municipio en Ciudad Bicentenario (26 Jul 2018) — Quito Informa — Municipio del DMQ · openA
- Acerca de US — Uribe Schwarzkopf · openA
- Así se ha desempeñado el mercado inmobiliario de Ecuador en el último año (9 Jan 2025; MarketWatch study) — Primicias · openA
- Viviendas nuevas: baja demanda en Quito y Guayaquil (29 Sep 2025; Market Watch data) — Primicias · openA
- Municipio facilita acceso a información registral y catastral (30 Nov 2023) — Quito Informa — Municipio del DMQ · openA