Argentina · ARG · snapshot 2026-08-16

Argentina

Measured

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  1. Currency movement

    Not measured

    The European Central Bank publishes no euro reference rate for this currency, so there is no twelve-month entry window to state.

  2. Foreign-buyer rules

    1 of 1 published rules apply

    Period
    Each rule carries its own retrieval date
    Geography
    National unless the rule states otherwise
    Asset class
    0 of these govern housing only
    Source
    The issuing authority for each rule, cited individually
    We may
    Public legal instruments, quoted with their citation

    These are the restrictions a foreign buyer meets before price is even discussed — approval regimes, surcharges, ownership limits.

    What it does not show. It is not a completeness claim. A rule we have not read is not a rule that does not exist, and this row counts what is cited, not what is in force.

  3. Cost of money

    29%

    Period
    2025-06
    Geography
    National
    Asset class
    Applies to any asset, indirectly
    Source
    Bank for International Settlements, central bank policy rates
    We may
    Publishable here; not licensed for paid deliverables

    The price of money to banks in this jurisdiction, which sets the floor everything else is priced from.

    What it does not show. It is emphatically not a mortgage quote. What a non-resident is offered is a different number, usually much higher, and the gap between them is where a market's financing story actually lives.

  4. Supply against absorption

    Not measured

    No statistics agency for this market has been read and cleared for republication.

  5. Residential price cycle

    Not measured

    The OECD house-price dataset does not carry Argentina.

  6. Valuation against its own history

    Not measured

    The OECD house-price dataset does not carry Argentina.

  7. On the market now

    Not measured

    No listings platform has been read for this market. The one platform this site can read covers Russian cities only, and inventing a count for anywhere else would be worse than an empty row.

No dossier has been written for this market yet. What follows is the measured layers and the rules, each with its source — not an argument about whether to be here. A market reaches this page as soon as two layers can be cited, because an unwritten thesis is a reason to publish less, not a reason to publish nothing.

The series behind those figures, and the workings

Cost of money

29%

Central bank policy rate, 2025-06. Source: Bank for International Settlements.

This is the price of money to banks, not the price of money to a non-resident buying a building. The gap between those two is where a market’s financing story actually lives, and it is not in this number. A mortgage quote for a foreign buyer depends on the lender, the asset and the borrower, and no public dataset carries it.

BIS terms permit this figure on a free page and state that nothing in their statistics constitutes investment advice. They also allow inclusion in a commercial product only where it adds no charge, so this series is published here and is not priced into any paid work.

Background

Annual national statistics from the World Bank, under a licence that permits reuse with attribution. They describe the country; they do not time an entry, and they are not counted as measurements of this market — otherwise every territory on earth would claim to be measured on the strength of one dataset.

IndicatorValueYear
GDP per capita14,898 US$2025
Consumer price inflation219.9 %2024
Population45,851,3782025
Urban population92.4 % of total2025
Official exchange rate1,240.8513 per US$2025

What the rules do to a foreign buyer

Each entry cites the instrument and the authority page it was read from, with the date it was retrieved. Facts of law change; the retrieval date is how you know how old this reading is.

TopicIn forceWhen it bitesApplies toWhat appliesInstrumentRead on
Ceilings on foreign-held rural landIn forcefrom 2011-12-27On the way inLand onlyA limit of fifteen per cent (15%) is set on all ownership or possession of rural land in the national territory by the foreign persons the chapter regulates, and that percentage is computed again over the territory of the province, municipality or equivalent administrative entity in which the rural property sits — so a national headroom figure says nothing about whether a particular district is already full. Natural or legal persons of one and the same foreign nationality may in no case exceed thirty per cent (30%) of that percentage. The rural land of any single foreign owner may not exceed one thousand hectares (1,000 ha) in the core zone, or an equivalent area according to territorial location, determined by the Inter-ministerial Council on Rural Land.Ley 26.737, Régimen de Protección al Dominio Nacional sobre la Propiedad, Posesión o Tenencia de las Tierras Rurales, arts. 8, 9 and 10. Sanctioned 22 December 2011, promulgated 27 December 2011. Read from the consolidated text on InfoLEG.2026-08-16

What is missing, and why

currencySource does not cover this market

The dataset simply does not include this territory. Absent, not zero.

The European Central Bank publishes no euro reference rate for this currency, so there is no twelve-month entry window to state.

valuationSource does not cover this market

The dataset simply does not include this territory. Absent, not zero.

The OECD house-price dataset does not carry Argentina.

supplySource does not cover this market

The dataset simply does not include this territory. Absent, not zero.

No statistics agency for this market has been read and cleared for republication.

What supports this, what would make it wrong, and how it could go

Record

Why this market is on the listAdded when its rural land ceilings were read from the consolidated text on InfoLEG. The BIS policy rate gives the cost-of-money layer; the euro reference rate does not carry the peso and the OECD dataset does not carry Argentina.
DossierNone written. Layers and rules only, which is why this market reads as “Measured” rather than reviewed.
Next review2026-11-15
Evidence snapshot2026-08-16