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Under construction
Tagua
Costa del Este, Panama City
from $1.12M to $2.26M
- Unit types
- 2
- Smallest unit
- 345 m²
- Status
- Under construction
- Area
- Costa del Este
Every apartment at Tagua is a four-bedroom of at least 344 m², with two units per floor. That single fact explains the price and it is the reason to look at this tower rather than the several others going up around it. For scale, the largest floor plan at Bioma, the other Costa del Este tower we cover in detail, is 156 m². Tagua's smallest unit is more than double that, and the published range runs up to 720.84 m². The Agency Panama, Prime Real Estate and Panama Equity all put the building at 51 storeys with somewhere between 90 and 92 residences, which is a very low unit count for a tower that height.
The second thing worth knowing is who is building it. Valor Development, founded in 2012 and led by Jorge Gallo, splits its own project archive into delivered and active. Marea I, Marea II and Aria sit under delivered. Tagua and Madero sit under active. Marea is a completed Costa del Este tower, so this is a developer with finished buildings in the same district rather than a first-time sponsor. That is the developer's own account and not a registry record we pulled, but it is a more checkable claim than most preselling towers here offer. Construction started in March 2026 according to Revista Inversiones & Negocios, which quoted Gallo on the start of works and named Cemento Bayano among the suppliers.
Tagua has no licence, tax position or title angle that its neighbours lack. It competes on floor area, on an oceanfront lot, and on a developer that has handed over buildings in Costa del Este before.
Tagua prices and floor plans
| Unit | Beds | Baths | Size | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apto B | — | — | 345 m² | — |
| Apto A | — | — | 380 m² | — |
Where Tagua actually is
Only one listing we could fetch publishes a street for Tagua. Business Panama Real Estate puts it on Avenida Paseo del Mar. The developer's own site says only "primera línea de mar", first line of sea, and every other broker page repeats the oceanfront positioning without naming a lot. Treat the exact address as unconfirmed, and ask for the finca and the plano before you sign anything.
The seafront position is what separates this lot from the towers a few blocks inland, and it cuts both ways. Our Costa del Este page sets out the Bay of Panama contamination position, including the fact that the sanitation programme has no published date by which bathing becomes safe. On an inland lot that is background information. On a first-line lot sold on floor-to-ceiling water views, it decides what you are actually paying the premium for. The water here is scenery.
The practical benefits of this end of the district are the ones you would expect. Town Center is walkable, which matters more day to day than any driving time does, because the errands do not require the car. Corredor Sur access puts Tocumen within reach without crossing the city. Panama Equity's Q1 2026 market report counts 1,485 existing condos for sale in Costa del Este, down 40.2% over twelve months, so the district is absorbing inventory rather than accumulating it. That is a district-wide figure across every price band, and it says nothing specific about the segment above $1 million where Tagua sits.
What’s included at Tagua
- Infinity pool
- Ocean-view gym
- Spa
- Coworking space
- Golf simulator
- Cinema
Who Tagua suits — and who it doesn’t
Families who need four bedrooms plus service quarters and want building services instead of a house to maintain, close to the international schools Costa del Este is built around. Buyers moving out of a large home who are not willing to trade down to the 100 to 160 m² apartments that make up most of the district's supply, which is a real and underserved requirement here. Cash buyers, or buyers with a horizon long enough to sit through a 2028 or 2029 delivery and then hold for years afterwards. People who will drive, because the district is designed around cars and the Metro does not serve it.
It suits almost nobody buying a first apartment in Panama. It is a poor fit for anyone who might need the money back inside five years, and for anyone whose case rests on rental yield. A 344 m² four-bedroom rents to a small pool of corporate and diplomatic tenants and to nobody else, and we hold no verified yield data for that pool.
The price band is the problem. Panama Equity's Q1 2026 market report names preconstruction above $800,000 as the most stressed segment in Panama City, with roughly one third of available inventory in that category consisting of completed units, meaning finished apartments that have not sold. Tagua's entire range sits above $1 million. By ticket size you are buying into the slowest-moving part of the market.
The resale arithmetic is worth doing before you sign. The same report puts Costa del Este's average preconstruction price at $3,800 per square metre and its average resale price at $2,500. Tagua's two standard models both work out to roughly $3,250 per square metre on published asking prices, so it is priced below the district's preconstruction average and well above its resale average. That resale figure blends every building age and unit size in the district, so it is not a valuation of a new 344 m² apartment. The gap is still large and it runs in one direction.
Published specifications disagree with each other. The Agency Panama says 51 storeys and 92 residences. Prime Real Estate says 51 and 91. Panama Equity says 51 and 90. BR Romero Espinosa says 49 floors. Delivery is given as 2029 by The Agency and Panama Equity, as 30 December 2028 by Prime, and as 2028 to 2029 by BR Romero. Business Panama lists a Type A of 397.87 m² that no other page corroborates. None of this is unusual for a tower that only broke ground in March 2026, and all of it means the brochure figures are not yet load-bearing.
No source we could find publishes a maintenance fee. That number is charged per square metre, and on a 344 m² apartment it will be one of the larger fees in the district. Have it in writing before the reservation rather than after.
And the bay directly in front of the building is contaminated, with no published date for when that changes.
Before you buy at Tagua
Title status here is unknown and we are not going to dress that up. We did not pull a Registro Público record for this lot, and at this stage of construction there is no individual finca number for your unit to pull anyway. Costa del Este as a district is titled, and our reviewer verified that against the Registro Público on 4 August 2026, but that is a statement about the district rather than about your apartment. Until the building is registered under the horizontal property regime you hold a promesa de compraventa, a purchase promise, rather than a deed. Our condo buyer's guide covers what changes when Ley 284 de 2022 applies and what the reglamento de copropiedad will bind you to.
Nothing about the payment structure at Tagua is published anywhere. Not the reservation amount, not the deposit percentage, not the schedule of payments during construction, not the maintenance fee. Every broker page we fetched leaves all four blank, and so does the single portal listing. Get all four in writing from Valor Development, in a document you can hand to an attorney, before any money moves. Our buying process guide sets out what normally gets paid when.
What an attorney should pull: the construction permit for the lot and the plano, Valor Development's corporate registration and the specific selling entity named on your contract, the deposit-forfeiture terms in the promesa de compraventa, and the escrow arrangement covering construction-stage payments. We could not independently verify any of those through public sources during this research.
On price, the range shown for this project is $1,120,000 to $2,259,474. Both ends come from The Agency Panama's published range, and the floor is independently corroborated by Engel & Völkers and by the one Encuentra24 listing. That is still a broker's published range rather than a developer price list, because Valor Development publishes no prices at all. The pricing FAQ below sets out where each figure comes from and which ones still disagree with each other.
FAQ
What does an apartment at Tagua actually cost?
The range we show is $1,120,000 to $2,259,474, taken from The Agency Panama's development page and checked 4 August 2026. Tagua is under construction and selling off plan, so a list price is the primary figure and everything else either corroborates it or does not.
The floor corroborates well. Engel & Völkers quotes $1,120,000 for a 344 m² four-bedroom, and Encuentra24 carries one PH Tagua listing at the same $1,120,000 for the same 344 m² floor plan, with 4.5 bathrooms and four parking spaces (listing 32093905, checked 4 August 2026). That works out to $3,256 per square metre. An agent asking price landing exactly on the developer floor is genuine corroboration, although one listing is a single data point rather than a cluster. Compre o Alquile blocks automated access from our research environment, so we could not check it at all.
Around that floor the sources scatter. Panama Equity publishes a low of $1,068,400 on its building page and $1,100,400 on its listing page, both under the figure we carry. BR Romero Espinosa puts Model B at $1,130,000. On the larger standard model the spread is wider: Prime Real Estate has the 379 m² Model A at $1,231,750, Acierto Panamá at $1,223,200, and Business Panama Real Estate at $1,315,750 against a Type A of 397.87 m² that no other page gives. Both standard models still land at roughly $3,250 per square metre whichever quote you take, which is the more durable number to hold in your head.
The top of the range carries a problem worth knowing about. The Agency and Panama Equity both give $2,259,474 as the ceiling, but The Agency describes the largest unit as 720.84 m² while BR Romero Espinosa describes the penthouse as 654 m². Same price, two sizes, and the gap moves the per-square-metre figure from about $3,135 to about $3,455. Ask which one you are being sold.
Valor Development publishes no prices on its own site, so there is no developer document to settle any of this against.
How big are the apartments at Tagua?
Model B is 344 m² and Model A is 379 or 380 m² depending on which page you read. Both are four-bedroom. The published range tops out at 720.84 m², though BR Romero Espinosa describes the same top-priced penthouse as 654 m². Business Panama gives its Type A as 397.87 m², which nothing else corroborates. There are two units per floor. The one Encuentra24 listing for the project confirms the 344 m² floor plan independently, with 4.5 bathrooms and four parking spaces. For comparison, Bioma across the district runs 65 to 156 m², so Tagua's smallest apartment is more than double Bioma's largest. That size profile is the whole product.
How many floors does Tagua have, and how many apartments?
51 storeys according to The Agency Panama, Prime Real Estate and Panama Equity. BR Romero Espinosa says 49. On unit count, The Agency says 92, Prime says 91, Panama Equity says 90. We have left the unit count blank on this page rather than pick one. Worth noting: the developer's own site maps amenities across levels 0 to 5. Take those six levels out of 51 storeys and put two units on each remaining floor and you get 90, which is exactly what Panama Equity publishes. That is arithmetic that happens to agree, not confirmation.
When will Tagua be delivered?
Construction started in March 2026, reported by Revista Inversiones & Negocios, which quoted Valor Development CEO Jorge Gallo on the start of works and named Cemento Bayano among the suppliers and MS Family among the partners. Delivery estimates are 2029 (The Agency Panama, Panama Equity), 30 December 2028 (Prime Real Estate), and 2028 to 2029 (BR Romero Espinosa). For a 51-storey tower that broke ground in March 2026, the later end of that range is the more plausible one. Get the developer's own current schedule in writing rather than relying on a broker page.
Who is building Tagua, and have they finished anything before?
Valor Development, also trading as Grupo Valor, founded in 2012 and led by Jorge Gallo. Its own project archive separates delivered projects from active ones. Marea I, Marea II and Aria are listed as delivered. Tagua, Madero, Paseo del Este and Península are listed as active in Costa del Este. Marea is a completed Costa del Este tower, so the developer has handed over buildings in this district, which is more than most preselling sponsors here can show. That is the developer's own account of itself. We did not verify the delivery dates, and we could not establish whether those projects were completed on their originally quoted schedules. That second question is the one that matters when you are holding a deposit for three years.
What are the maintenance fees at Tagua?
Nobody publishes them. Not the developer, not any of the broker pages we fetched, not the one portal listing. That matters more here than at a typical tower, because the fee is charged per square metre and these are 344 m² apartments. For scale only, the one Costa del Este tower where we have a documented rate is Bioma at roughly $3.25 to $3.50 per square metre per month. Applied to 344 m² that would be $1,120 to $1,200 a month. That is an illustration of the order of magnitude, not a figure for Tagua. Ask for Tagua's projected fee in writing before you reserve.
Is Tagua titled property?
Not yet, and we have checked nothing project-specific. The tower is under construction, so units sell under a promesa de compraventa and no individual finca number exists for your apartment. Costa del Este as a district is titled and our reviewer confirmed that against the Registro Público on 4 August 2026, but that says nothing about this lot or this developer's paperwork. We did not pull a registry record for the Tagua lot and we will not imply otherwise. Your attorney should.
Is Tagua a sensible investment?
Not on the numbers we can see, if the plan is to resell within a few years. Panama Equity's Q1 2026 report names preconstruction above $800,000 as the most stressed segment in the city, with roughly a third of available inventory in that band already built and unsold, and Tagua starts at $1,120,000. There is also almost no secondary-market signal to read here: one Encuentra24 listing and nothing on the portals beyond it, which tells you how thin trading is in this size and price band. The counterweight, from the same Panama Equity report checked 4 August 2026: Costa del Este's inventory of existing condos for sale fell 40.2% over twelve months to 1,485 units, and new-construction pricing across the city rose more than 15% in the same period. If the plan is to live in a 344 m² apartment on the water, that is a different question and the product is genuinely scarce in this district. As a trade, it is a large and illiquid position in the slowest-moving part of the market.
