San Juan del Obispo is one of the oldest aldeas around Antigua, known as the home of Francisco Marroquín (1499-1563), the first bishop of Guatemala. His 16th-century palace still stands in the village; the exact years of its construction are not recorded, and today it serves as a museum and as a pastoral centre of the Hermanas de Bethania (Prensa Libre, read 5 November 2026). Today San Juan is a quiet residential neighborhood roughly 4 km south of Antigua centro, sloping gently up the foothills of Volcán de Agua, with a small plaza, a working church and a local tradition of handmade chocolate, which the palace’s artisan room displays alongside sweets, wood carving and wrought iron made in the village.
For real estate, San Juan del Obispo is a small but unusually diverse market: houses and land in roughly equal measure, plus a handful of apartments. Nearly every category in the dataset is represented here, which is rare in a listing set this size. The live count and price band are in the table below.
Reading the market
The standout neighbor is Condado del Obispo, the upscale gated community adjacent to the village, which we track as a separate area on its own page. That distinction matters: when buyers say “San Juan del Obispo” they sometimes mean the traditional village and sometimes mean the Condado community next door, and the two sit in completely different price tiers. Confirm which one a listing means before comparing prices across sites.
The traditional village - what this page is about - offers some of the best price-to-history ratio in the Antigua area: colonial-era plazas, a working community, a quieter daily rhythm than central Antigua, and prices that have not been bid up to centro levels. The upper end of the band on this page is mostly land on the volcano side, not village houses, so read the price table alongside the inventory mix rather than on its own.
