Upscale Pocitos Neighborhood Home in Montevideo, Uruguay

Upscale Pocitos Home

The following home is for sale in the Montevideo neighborhood of Pocitos.  Pocitos is one of the (if not THE) most posh neighborhoods in Montevideo.  It is very urban and very few standalone homes remain near the waterfront.  Below I am presenting some photos of a fine South American home with classic European (French perhaps) lines, well maintained from the times of plenty in Uruguay.  It is on offer through the Del Castillo group for 375,000 USD.

I personally worked through this firm for my rentals and am friends with them, but I didn’t ask to take their photos…   Hopefully, they will forgive me since I gave their firm a ’shout out’.

Here, we see a view of the front yard and a piece of the staircase.  I imagine that they are trying to keep the identity of the house ’secret’ until you go through them (?)  OR, the front of the house is nothing very special to look at…probably the latter.   They do however, show off the wrought iron work on the staircase handrail, which looks pretty nice.

front yard and staircase

After a breathtaking entry hallway with fantastic high ceilings, you spill out into a living room.  The living room has equally high ceilings and a sky light provides ample natural light for the center of the home.  A fireplace warms up the tile floored living area.

Living Room

Here is a better view of the fireplace in the living room

Fireplace in the Living Room

A view of the fantastic skylight in the living area.  Skylights like this are pretty typical of the older homes in Montevideo, however, these can be of maintained at varying degrees.  A lot of them leak like sieves, and can make the winters colder than they need to be.  My friend had one (along the river, no less, where there was a several inch gap between the window and the ceiling all around.  It was fantastic for venting out the heat for 4 months or so.  The rest of the time, it turned his rented home into an uninhabitable wind tunnel.