Signature · Developer · São Paulo
Escritório Brasília de Imóveis
The house of Santana. Founded in 1968, EBI gave the name "Brasília" to an entire lineage of buildings and, on its own, changed what São Paulo's north side understood as high-end.
Who it is
E.B.I. — Escritório Brasília de Imóveis was founded in 1968 and works in property management, buying and selling, and development. It always believed in the potential of the capital’s north side: it set up headquarters on Rua Frei Vicente do Salvador, in Santana, and was a pioneer there in launching high-end developments that changed and boosted the area’s values.
What sets it apart is the series. Over the decades, the firm gave the name Brasília to an entire lineage of buildings raised in the neighbourhood — Classic, Exclusive, Evidence, Advanced, Celebration, Evolution, Luna, Majestic, Royale, Premiére, Caesar, Imperador, Everest, Residence, New Life — plus the commercial towers Brasília Center, Brasília Business Center, Brasília Professional Center, Brasília Square Offices and Brasília Corporate. Much of the series was designed by the studio Alexandre Milleu Arquitetura, based on Rua Alfredo Pujol itself, a few blocks from the works it signs, and built by Alimonti, a São Paulo contractor with forty-odd years in the business. Brasília Excellence, from 2008, is the peak of this lineage: an entire floor per family, more than half a thousand private square metres and an official tennis court on a 4,700 m² plot.
The group is not a single company. It brings together E.B.I. Escritório Brasília de Imóveis, Vivere Incorporações Imobiliárias, Plurincorp, Pacaembu Empreendimentos Imobiliários and Pacaembu Incorporações Imobiliárias, each working in a distinct part of the business — which is why the same development can appear attributed to different names depending on the source. In 2005, seeking to widen horizons for its investors, the group launched Pacaembu Empreendimentos Imobiliários, aimed at high-end residential projects in the city’s west side.
Product vision
- Positioning: high-end in Santana and the north side, a market the firm practically invented — residential, commercial and serviced-flat buildings that became part of the neighbourhood’s landscape.
- Series brand: the name Brasília works as a seal of origin. Whoever buys into a “Brasília” in Santana knows whose building it is before asking.
- Recurring team: design by Alexandre Milleu Arquitetura and construction by Alimonti run through decades of the series, giving a rare continuity of build quality across such a long portfolio.
- Product ambition: at Brasília Excellence, the launch material sold the north side’s first smart residential building — automation of rooms, lighting, climate control, sensor-controlled blinds and underfloor heating, in a neighbourhood that until then had no product of that calibre.
- Expansion: since 2005, also on the west side, through Pacaembu Empreendimentos Imobiliários.
Launches
- Brasília Excellence — Santana, completed in 2008; a twenty-two-storey neoclassical tower, one flat per floor, official tennis court.
- The Brasília series in Santana: Classic (1998), New Life (2001), Everest (2003), Royale (2006), Caesar (2007), Imperador (2010), Exclusive (2011), plus Evidence, Advanced, Celebration, Evolution, Luna, Majestic and Premiére.
- Brasília Center, Brasília Business Center, Brasília Professional Center, Brasília Square Offices (2022) and Brasília Corporate (2018), on the commercial side.
