Price per Square Meter in Sosúa and Cabarete: What Instyle's Listings Show

Short answer: On October 1, 2026, condos and apartments in Instyle's Sosúa listings had a median asking price of about $2,409 per square meter of living area, houses and villas about $2,198. Cabarete houses came in near $2,125. These are asking prices from one agency's offering, not sale prices, and the spread inside each group is wide.

How were these figures calculated?

We read Instyle's own listing pages on October 1, 2026: the full listings page and the place pages for Sosúa, Cabarete and Puerto Plata. At that date the site showed 137 properties in total. The Sosúa page showed 106, the Cabarete page 29 and the Puerto Plata page 5, with some overlap because a listing's place tag can differ from the page it appears on.

For each listing we divided the asking price by the stated living area. Then:

• Listings were grouped by the place tag shown on the card and by type, judged from the title: condos and apartments (including penthouses), houses and villas (including townhouses), and lots.
• Lots were divided by lot size instead of living area.
• Listings without a price or without a living area were left out. A hotel was left out too.
• We report the median, which a few very large or very cheap listings cannot move far, and the middle half of the range (the 25th to the 75th percentile).

Two villas and one lot in Sea Horse Ranch, a Cabarete community, carry a Sosúa tag on the site and sit in the Sosúa figures as tagged. The calculation is ours, and anyone can repeat it from the listing pages. Because Instyle's inventory changes, the numbers will move.

What are the medians by place and type?

Place (as tagged)	Type	Listings used	Median per m²	Middle half	Lowest to highest
Sosúa	Condos and apartments	49	$2,409	$2,010 to $2,800	$1,658 to $4,959
Sosúa	Houses, villas, townhouses	43	$2,198	$1,848 to $2,423	$773 to $3,707
Cabarete	Houses and villas	15	$2,125	$1,883 to $2,325	$1,264 to $8,806
Cabarete	Condos and apartments	5	$2,559	$1,889 to $2,900	$1,844 to $3,699
Puerto Plata	Condos and apartments	4	$2,923	n/a	$2,617 to $3,207

Cabarete condos and all Puerto Plata figures rest on four or five listings. Treat them as examples, not as a market reading.

What do the numbers say about Sosúa?

Sosúa is the deepest sample, and it shows that price per square meter rises with the price tag. Condos and apartments under $200,000 (16 listings) had a median of $2,266 per square meter. Those from $200,000 to $400,000 (18 listings) had $2,344, and those at $400,000 and above (15 listings) had $2,841.

The top of the range is oceanfront: the highest figures belong to a 4-bedroom oceanfront penthouse ($2.6 million, 539 m², about $4,824) and a 3-bedroom oceanfront apartment ($1.8 million, 363 m², about $4,959). At the other end, a furnished studio near Playa Alicia is listed at about $1,658 per square meter. So the median says little about any single unit. A first-line apartment and an inland one can differ by a factor of two on this measure.

Houses sit slightly lower at the median, and the spread comes from lot, pool and build quality as much as location. The low end of $773 belongs to a 5-bedroom villa of 1,280 m² listed at $990,000, a reminder that large living areas pull the per-meter figure down, and that a villa's land is not in this calculation.

What do the numbers say about Cabarete and Puerto Plata?

Cabarete's sample is mostly villas, and the median of $2,125 for those is close to Sosúa's. The maximum of $8,806 is a 5-bedroom oceanfront villa of 511 m² on a 4,627 m² lot in Sea Horse Ranch, listed at $4.5 million. Here the price is largely about the lot and the frontage, not the building. This is why the median is a better guide than the average.

Puerto Plata's four listings with a living area range from $2,617 to $3,207 per square meter. They include oceanfront condos on the Malecón and condos in Playa Dorada, and a fifth Playa Dorada condo shows no living area, so it is not counted.

What about land per square meter?

Lots are priced per square meter of land, and the range is far wider than for buildings. In Sosúa, six lots with a price and a size had a median of about $118 per square meter, with a range of $50 to $161. In Cabarete, five lots had a median of about $150, with a range of $61 to $500. The two top figures in Cabarete are an 8,456 m² oceanfront cliff-front lot in Sea Horse Ranch ($4.2 million, about $497) and a 1,100 m² beachfront lot in Encuentro ($550,000, $500). Inland building lots in the same listings are far lower.

Frontage drives land price more than size. Land has its own checks: title, survey and the 60-meter coastal strip. Our guide to buying land on the north coast covers them, and the land listings show what is currently offered.

How do these figures compare with broker medians?

A July 2026 report by the broker CLIC Inmobiliaria analyzed 65,160 active apartment listings across the country, with a data cutoff of June 23, 2026. It found medians of $2,641 per square meter in Cabarete (254 listings), $2,083 in Sosúa (282) and $2,025 in Puerto Plata (403), against $2,000 nationally. It states that its figures are asking prices, not closing prices [1].

Place	CLIC median, all apartments, July 2026 [1]	Instyle median, condos and apartments, Oct 1, 2026
Sosúa	$2,083	$2,409
Cabarete	$2,641	$2,559 (5 listings)
Puerto Plata	$2,025	$2,923 (4 listings)

The two sources agree on the order of magnitude, roughly $2,000 to $2,900. They differ in detail, and reasons are plausible but not proven: Instyle's Sosúa stock includes many beachfront and oceanfront apartments, and the CLIC data cover far more listings with its own cleaning rules (it excluded units under 30 m² and over 1,000 m² and prices outside $20,000 to $5,000,000). We cannot say which is closer to the sale price, because neither is a sale price. For context on how the towns differ, see our guide to Sosúa, Cabarete and Puerto Plata.

What are the limits of this data?

Be careful with five things:

1. Asking is not selling. No source we found publishes closing prices for the north coast.
2. Living area is as entered. A few cards show the same figure for living area and lot, which suggests inconsistent entry. We kept the values as published.
3. Small samples. Cabarete condos and Puerto Plata have four or five listings each.
4. What is included. Some prices include furniture, terraces and pools. Terraces and rooftop areas may or may not be counted in living area.
5. A snapshot. Instyle's offering changes weekly, and a median from one agency is not the market.

How do you use a price per square meter when buying?

Use it as a screen, then check the particulars. Here is a worked illustration, labelled as arithmetic and not a valuation: a 100 m² condo in Sosúa at the $2,409 median would be $240,900, and a 200 m² house at the $2,198 median would be $439,600. If the unit you like is priced well above its group, find the reason (frontage, new build, furnishing, a large terrace). If it is well below, find the reason too, and have an attorney check title and building arrears before you celebrate.

Compare units inside the same building or community first, since those are the best comparables. Our pages on Sosúa Ocean Village and Casa Linda show examples of communities with their own price levels. Browse condos and apartments or houses, or read the buying overview at Buying Property in the Dominican Republic.

Remember the extra costs on top of any price: roughly 4% to 6% in one-time closing costs on a standard purchase [2].

Frequently asked questions

What is the price per square meter in Sosúa? In Instyle's listings on October 1, 2026, the median asking price was about $2,409 for condos and apartments and about $2,198 for houses. A July 2026 broker report put the median for all Sosúa apartments at $2,083 [1].

Is Cabarete more expensive than Sosúa per square meter? The broker report says yes, $2,641 against $2,083 for apartments [1]. In Instyle's listings the difference is small for villas ($2,125 in Cabarete, $2,198 in Sosúa), and the Cabarete condo sample is too small to compare.

Are these the prices properties actually sell for? No. They are asking prices. We found no published data on closing prices for the north coast.

Why do oceanfront units cost so much more per square meter? In these listings, the highest per-meter figures in both towns are oceanfront or beachfront properties. The sources do not isolate the premium, so treat it as an observation from the listings, not a measured rate.

How much does land cost per square meter? In Instyle's listings, inland lots in Sosúa had a median around $118 and in Cabarete around $150 per square meter of land, while two beachfront lots in Cabarete were near $500.

Next step

Pick a property you are considering and calculate its price per square meter from the listing, then compare it with the median of its group and with units in the same building. When you have a shortlist, contact Instyle and ask for the building's fee schedule and the seller's title documents.

Sources

1. CLIC Inmobiliaria, "Price per Square Meter Apartments Dominican Republic, July 2026" (data cutoff June 23, 2026): https://clicinmobiliaria.com/en/articles/analisis-de-mercado/price-per-square-meter-apartments-dominican-republic-july-2026
2. Closing costs: Guzmán Ariza, "Buying Real Estate in the Dominican Republic" https://drlawyer.com/buying-real-estate-in-the-dominican-republic/ ; Navetta Properties https://www.navettaproperties.com/blog/closing-costs-dominican-republic
3. Instyle Investments listing pages, retrieved October 1, 2026 (source of all Instyle figures, calculated by the author): https://instyleinvestments.com/listings ; https://instyleinvestments.com/places/sosua ; https://instyleinvestments.com/places/cabarete ; https://instyleinvestments.com/places/puerto-plata

Last reviewed: October 1, 2026