Tasteful friends: an elegant 1929 Beaux-Arts style apartment in Buenos Aires, $330,000 USD

Listing.

The floor plan and a decent video can be view AFTER you've opened the photos.

Get it, OP. ¡Vaya con dios!

Recoleta is stuffy as hell. I’d rather live in Palermo Soho.

OP, I'm afraid I'm not getting the point of this "Tasteful Friends..." post. The apartment is nowhere near tacky enough!

What's to get, R4? Some are posted because they're tacky, some because they are interesting for other reasons.

I liked Buenos Aires when I visited there for work, but I was cautioned not to wonder around the city. The hotel there, The Intercontinental, provided a car and driver for me to travel back and forth to a conference in a huge hall that may have once been a shipping terminal if I recall correctly.

The city was handsome, and I met some nice people and enjoyed the food. But there was a sense on instability and danger, at least at the time (2013).

Beautiful apartment. Love the floors, high ceilings, and the views

R5, you haven't mentioned why this apartment is interesting other than its decor. BsAs has hundreds of apartment buildings like this one, and if anything Recoleta is akin to NYC's Upper East side nowadays: EXTREMELY tired and centered on older straight people. (I'm not R3, but Palermo Soho is far more interesting nowadays.)

Too bad Argentina is now run by fascist lunaric in a bad wig

The ONLY Buenos Aires Tasteful Friends posts worthy of our notice are of Palermo Soho. EVERYONE knows that. Try harder, OP.

[quote] Too bad Argentina is now run by fascist lunatic in a bad wig

Yeah, thank God the US has never been run by anybody answering that description.

They have air fyers there too! I could survive there.

Who can speak to r6's commentary about safety? Is it like NYC unsafe or Bogota unsafe?

R13 I was there a few years ago, its somewhere in between, you can walk around the city, or at least the better parts during the day but you do need to be aware and alert. We even walked around at night locally in Recoleta. If you dont wear bling and other obvious displays of wealth and you are situationally aware you should be OK. I believe it has also improved a bit of late

I just spent a month in an Airbnb in Recoleta and never felt remotely unsafe.

R14, did you take a direct flight from Auckland to Santiago and then a flight to Buenos Aires, or did you go when they still had direct flights between Auckland and Buenos Aires??

[Quote] Yeah, thank God the US has never been run by anybody answering that description.

Ah yes, whataboutism cures all problems.

I do some business in Argentina and it is unbelievably hard to move money into the country.

And the amounts I am able to pay to receive high quality service and product are a PITTANCE.

The country is in dire straits.

Too small.

R16 I seem to recall it was a direct flight

The crusty objectionist above is wrong. Tasteful Friends real estate threads have never been limited to properties in bad or strange taste. Ridiculous.

How cheap are the rent boys?

If an apartment like that is 330K we can assume the rent boys are 30 USD a night.

A lot can be done with that flat, OP. I like it, one of the few Tasteful Friends places I like.

The bathroom needs quite a bit of work, and the kitchen appliances and cabinetry should be modernized.

It appears all the wall and ceiling beaux-arts fanciness has been stripped away. But it's still a nice apartment with good volumes.

[quote]R5, you haven't mentioned why this apartment is interesting other than its decor. BsAs has hundreds of apartment buildings like this one, and if anything Recoleta is akin to NYC's Upper East side nowadays: EXTREMELY tired and centered on older straight people. (I'm not [R3], but Palermo Soho is far more interesting nowadays.)

R8: To explain *my* guidelines for Tasteful Friends posts, which I make often: I like a beautiful historic building; great views; a city that I could imagine living in (sometimes a city that I couldn't yet the property is somehow compelling all the same (e,g., 'you could live like a prince for barely any money at all in this amazing house in Pennebequoysett, Maine, now if only you could live in Pennebequoysett'); impossibly large houses that may need tons of work but are brilliant; small, perfect places; often a property in a location that wouldn't be high on my list of places to live but the house or apartment makes me consider (at lest for a moment) the possibility.

Yes, I would prefer Palermo to Recoleta, but I could live in Recoleta without my soul withering and dying from its has-been fashionability. I rather like has-been places. In NYC, I would absolutely prefer the Upper East Side and stuffy old co-ops to a 'hip' neighborhood with the cocktail bar of the moment and the latest iteration of gut renovation trends that will look dated in about 5 years.

I make Tasteful Friends posts for properties that caught my attention for some combination of reaons. Sometimes other DLers find them interesting, sometimes they don't. I don't have much curiosity about where and how Susanne Somers lived, or Linda Lavin, or Bonnie Franklin, or the star of Queer Eye, or Tom Selleckś ranch, or a time capsule of the era of shag carpet and Drinkie-poos in Palm Springs, or a suburban house in Troy NY where every room looks like a commercial slaughter house or maybe a 1950s wig shop. I'll look at those posts, but they rarely spark much interest. Other people, of course, other Tasteful Friends posters have different tastes than mine.

In this case: great city, neighborhood thick with elegant old apartment buildings of a particular and special quality, a measure of lost elegance, herringbone floors that make my dick hard, some ace French doors and balustrades, a fanstastic and elegant apartment with great views for all of $330,000 and $187 a month in maintenance fees. Now you know.

Why did you waste such time and effort on a troll? Do not feed the trolls.

Well said R27. And this is a beautiful apartment, I could envisage living there, it does need more Beaux Arts furniture and decor inside though, and the kitchen is functional if a bit tragic

There are some grand old buildings in Cairo including Zamalek where I live. More often Deco than Beaux Arts. They have to be inventive keeping the elevators running. Wonder if this is an issue in Buenos Aires as well. I'm going to loose my original double French doors and windows soon and they will be replaced with something horribly and modern but very functional.

Nice article R30. I haven't heard many horror stories about BA's historic elevators. Despite their relative simplicity, I'm sure they're still a maintenance concern. The old cast and wrought iron cage elevators of BA are a popular subject in Instagram and elsewhere, for good reason.

I want to make a trip to Cairo to see some if the Mamluk period palaces and architecture. I know there are some good Art Deco buildings as well.

[quote]I was cautioned not to wonder around the city

Oh, dear!

As an Argentinean, hell NO. Palermo is trendy but in a very shallow way and has no where near the arquitecture, elegance and the history as Recoleta. Plus having to walk through droves of tourists every day...no thank you (plus if you want to go to an actual eclectic, eccentric authentucally artsy neighborhood I'd suggest Chacarita or Villa Crespo).

Tell the driver this is where I’m staying.

Beautiful building, but the apartment itself requires extensive work in order to restore it to its former glory. Clearly, the kitchen and bathrooms were altered during the 70s or 80s, and they are positively ghastly. Thankfully, the horrendous mismatched furniture will be disposed of before the buyer moves in, so they'll be able to decorate it properly, with revivalist Neoclassic and Baroque furniture in order to create a stylistically harmonious ambiance.

The price is shockingly low for such a gem, but I imagine that few people are going to want to buy property in a country that is literally collapsing under the weight of rabid neoliberalism.

OP can you find an interesting Tasteful Friends apartment in Romania please?🙏

Lovely!

THis is nice but remember Buenos Aires has an elevator accident almost every day. You need to stay within an easy climb from the street.

"literally collapsing under the weight of rabid neoliberalism."

That is hilarious considering Milei has been president for 8 months and the very non neoliberal government had been in power before that FOR FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS. Yes we have been collapsing but not precisely because of neoliberalism. Or did you think our crisis started 8 months ago? Please refrain from pretending you know ANYTHING at all about my country, you ignorant jackass.

A second vote for Recoleta over Palermo... especially because of the damn tourists. This is only a short walk away from Plaza Lavalle where you can be entertained by a quaint mix of protests or farmer's market depending on the day of the week. It's also strategically close to Markus Day Spa for Men, which is always good to relieve stress.

It’s a great time to buy OP, mortgage rates have really come down!

I love it!

Me encante!

Encanta!

Haha, R41. Cash is typically best, or certainly easiest, for foreign buyers in any location -- and not least in Buenos Aires.

A mortgage rate of 26.24% does put a bit of a damper on the otherwise attractive price and monthly fees.

R45 Holy shit. You'd definitely be wanting to buy this cash

[quote]OP can you find an interesting Tasteful Friends apartment in Romania please?🙏

R36, I didn´t find any apartments of interest. Some nice new construction but at the outskirts and nothing especially Bucharest about them. Instead, a big ass 1894 house in a posh and very historic area.