Methodology

How we read a neighborhood.

We score twelve signals per barrio: Local Authenticity, Tourism Saturation, Walkability, Remote Work Viability, Noise Profile, Social Energy, Infrastructure Confidence, Long-Term Livability, Investment Stability, Emotional Texture, Cultural Density, and Trajectory Confidence. Each signal is banded into one of three levels — Low, Medium, High — and accompanied by a confidence indicator from one to three dots. That is the entire scoring system.

Why bands, not numbers.

A neighborhood is not a stock price. There is no measurement on this site that we can give you to three significant figures without lying about the precision we have. We could publish "Walkability: 87.4 / 100" and it would look like a measurement and it would not be one. Bands are honest. A walkability score of "High" means we have observed and tested enough that we are willing to put the neighborhood in the top third of the city, and we are not willing to say more than that. The confidence dots tell you how much evidence sits behind the band. One dot means founder observation only. Three dots means observation plus multiple data sources plus local interviews. We will tell you which dots a signal has, every time.

What feeds each signal.

Each signal has named inputs. Walkability is a measured radius, café and grocery and pharmacy counts within that radius, and a slope check. Tourism Saturation is an English-signage ratio counted on a capture walk, plus café-and-souvenir density. Noise Profile is decibel sampling at three times of day. Investment Stability is comp depth and time-to-sale from Galería Inmobiliaria, plus three-year price-per-square-meter trend. Emotional Texture is a written editorial paragraph — we mark it as narrative, not banded, because the texture of a neighborhood is the one thing a band cannot describe. The Methodology section of each neighborhood page lists the inputs that built that page's scores.

What we get wrong.

The DANE census does not publish neighborhood-level data at the granularity we would like, so some of our authenticity reads are inferred from indirect signals rather than measured directly. Our sample size on noise is a single capture day per neighborhood — that is a starting point, not a final word. We are one founder-led team. We see what we see, and we name what we are not sure about. If you read a band on this site that does not match your own experience of a place, write to us. We will say so on the page.

Our credit policy.

Every property on this site is presented courtesy of a partner broker, who is named and credited on the property page and linked to their own listing where it lives. During the prototype phase, that credit shows as "Partner Broker (Confidential)" because we have not yet asked the brokers we are talking to for permission to use their names. The day we sign a partner agreement is the day the placeholder becomes their real credit. We do not scrape listings. We do not republish properties without an arrangement.