Housing in Punta del Este: price per m², rental, rooms and profitability (October 2026)
Machine-assisted English version of the Spanish original by Aptología. All figures are locked to the original (numbers are copied, not re-translated); if in doubt, the Spanish original prevails.
The area with the most expensive square meter of Punta del Este is Manantiales, with USD 4,880 in the medium of apartments for sale; the cheapest of the sample is Cantegril, with USD 2,833. A 2 room department is rented per USD 3,800 per month in the medium and sold per USD 310,000. The gross implicit return on rent is 13.7% per year.
Abstract: We analyze 7,662 ads of apartments in Punta del Este (5,198 for sale and 2,464 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive (sale per m²) | springs: USD 4,880 |
| Cheapest (sale per m²) | Cantegril: USD 2,833 |
| Sale per m² (medium) | USD 3,604 |
| Rental 2 rooms | USD 3,800 |
| Gross implicit return | 13.7% |
| Announcements | 7,662 |
Areas (30 ads or more)
| Zone | Sale per m² ($) | Monthly rental ($) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| springs | 4,880 | 10,000 | 101 / 86 |
| Mansa Beach | 3,973 | 5,200 | 1,075 / 624 |
| Playa Brava | 3,800 | 6,600 | 1,082 / 625 |
| Montoya | 3,780 | 12,750 | 36 / 40 |
| Punta Ballena | 3,657 | 5,550 | 128 / 47 |
| The Bar | 3,651 | 6,950 | 159 / 106 |
| Pines | 3,605 | — | 92 / — |
| Rincón del Indio | 3,519 | 8,300 | 83 / 41 |
| San Rafael | 3,443 | 1,900 | 87 / 41 |
| Aidy Grill | 3,423 | 2,600 | 300 / 193 |
| Peninsula | 3,380 | 3,200 | 535 / 267 |
| Roosevelt | 3,091 | 2,500 | 491 / 193 |
| Cantegril | 2,833 | — | 67 / — |
Medium apartments; - indicates less than 30 ads. The rent is monthly, without HOA fee or common costs.
Price per number of rooms
| Rooms | Sales price (medium) | Monthly rental (median) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USD 185,000 | USD 2,550 | 906 / 402 |
| 2 | USD 310,000 | USD 3,800 | 1,988 / 957 |
| 3 or more | USD 600,000 | USD 6,820 | 2,304 / 1,105 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive area of Punta del Este? springs, with USD 4,880 per m² in apartments for sale (October of 2026).
Where is it cheaper to buy apartment in Punta del Este? Among the areas with 30 ads or more, in Cantegril: USD 2,833 per m².
How much does an apartment rent in Punta del Este? The gross return is 13.7% per year (rent per m² × 12), before expenditure.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Punta del Este? USD 3,800 per month in the median (October of 2026).
Methodology
- Source: night events of the Aptology database (aptologia.com) of 18 October 2026: current housing ads in real estate portals of 13 countries, collected by Aptology and seen online between 11 and 18 October 2026. Court: 18 October of 2026.
- Debugging: exact duplicates (same city, area, type, price, currency, area, rooms and bathrooms) and prices outside the percentile 1 - 99 of each country, operation, currency and type are removed; the price per m² uses only ads with declared area between 12 and 2,000 m² and is also cut to P1-P99.
- What is measured: prices ordered (published), not closing prices. For rent, monthly rent without HOA fee, common expenses or condo.
- Minimum sample: each published figure is based on at least 30 ads; cells with less are omitted.
- Coins: never mix different coin ads without converting them. Conversión a dólares con la tasa de mercado de ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com, actualización del 18 Oct 2026): 1 USD = 3,182.80 COP, 1 USD = 18.47 M.N, 1 USD = 5.09 BRL, 1 USD = 3.44 PEN, 1 USD = 982.44 CLP, 1 USD = 1,514.57 ARS, 1 USD = 40.20 UYU, 1 USD = 5,705.37 PYG, 1 USD = 61.27 DOP, 1 USD = 0.89 EUR, 1 USD = 11.72 BOB; la UF chilena a 41,178.64 CLP (mindicador,cl. 18-oct-2026). The ads published in dollars are used as they are.
- Coins: sale in dollars and rent in dollars, the majority currency of each operation; listings in another currency are excluded. Dollar equivalencies with the above rate.
- Limitations: The coverage depends on the portals that travel Aptology in each country and is greater in large cities and in the medium-high and high segments; the area is the one that declares the announcement, unverified; the area names come from the portals.
- Privacy: only aggregates are published; no personal data, link to ads or name of advertiser is published.
- Open data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
How to quote
Pinzón Pineda, D. M. (2026). Housing in Punta del Este: price per m², rental, rooms and profitability (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-punta-del-este-por-zona-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Current data and listings: rentals in Punta del Este on Aptología
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462256 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Punta del Este: precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones y rentabilidad (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-punta-del-este-por-zona-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-punta-del-este-por-zona-2026
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