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Villa Urquiza
Residential, connected and increasingly popular — a strong contender for families and anyone staying a while.
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Villa Urquiza at a glance
Twenty years ago this was houses and gardens; now new towers march up Triunvirato and Olazábal while the back streets keep their one-storey houses, fig trees and tiled doorways. Subte B put downtown within about half an hour and the cafés and restaurants followed, which is why families priced out of Belgrano keep landing here. The construction is relentless and you can hear it, and anything south of the center is a long ride away.
Families who wanted Belgrano and did the maths.
Subte B is the whole transport story — off its line you are on buses — and the new builds that dominate the listings are small-roomed and amenity-heavy.
Anchors
The places that define Villa Urquiza · our read- StreetAvenida Triunvirato
The spine — towers, shops, the B line's last stations; the construction and the convenience both.
- PlazaPlaza Echeverría
The plaza at the center with the station behind it; the barrio's meeting point and its cafés.
- TheatreCentro Cultural 25 de Mayo
The restored 1929 cinema-theatre on Triunvirato, run by the city; the barrio's night out.
5 on the calendar - StreetAvenida Monroe
The other commercial corridor, quieter than Triunvirato; the good flats are between the two.
- Park · over the line in SaavedraParque Sarmiento
The city's biggest sports park — pools, pitches, a velodrome — at the northern edge; drive or bike, it is vast.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highhealthcare, safety and schools
parks and transit
Fair
median barrio
The overall read is an even weighting of the 12 marks we have for this barrio — a starting point, not a verdict. Of our six lenses it ranks highest under “With kids”. The tick is the median of the 48 barrios. Eight marks are computed from public data and four are our read; what goes into each is on how we score.
What it costs
average asking prices · Q2 2026To buy: about US$2,684 per m² for a used two-bedroom (+24% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +32.5% year on year in pesos. Budget separately for expensas (building fees) and utilities. These used-apartment benchmarks are not furnished short-stay quotes or offers. Figures are averages of what landlords ask — IDECBA (city statistics office), from Argenprop listings; 2nd quarter 2026, provisional — converted at the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA, Argentina’s central bank) retail seller rate, Q2 2026 average.
Reported robbery & theft
reported crimes · 202517.7 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — well below the city rate of 32.2.
854 robberies (with violence or threat) and 1,164 thefts were reported in Villa Urquiza in 2025, against 114,293 residents in private dwellings at the 2022 census. Reporting rates, visitors, population changes since the census and differences between blocks limit the comparison. These counts do not measure all crime or predict personal safety. Source: the city's open crime map — method and sources.
A barrio is half the decision. The other half is the lease — the guarantee, the up-front cash, the contract terms — and that part we walk through with you.