Housing price in Ecuador: Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca and other cities (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 most expensive square meter of apartment is requested in Guayaquil, with USD 1,364 in the median, and the cheapest in Quito, with USD 1,000. To rent one of 2 rooms costs USD 900 a month in Quito and USD 600 in Cuenca.
Abstract: We compare 6,060 apartment ads in 3 cities.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive sale | Guayaquil: USD 1,364 |
| Cheapest sale | Quito: USD 1,000 |
| Cities | 3 |
| Announcements | 6,060 |
| Increased gross return | Quito: 8.7% |
Cities
| City | Sale: $per m² | Rental 2 hab: $per month | Rental: $per m² per month | Gross return |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guayaquil | 1,364 | 850 | 8.5 | 7.5% |
| Basin | 1,238 | 600 | 5.3 | 5.1% |
| Quito | 1,000 | 900 | 7.2 | 8.7% |
Medium; - indicates less than 30 ads. The gross return is rent per m² × 12 ¬ sale per m², only when both transactions are published in the same currency.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive city to buy housing in Ecuador? Guayaquil: USD 1,364 per m² in the median (October of 2026).
Where is it cheaper? In Quito: USD 1,000 per m².
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; announcements in another currency are excluded.
- 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 price in Ecuador: Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca and other cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-vivienda-ciudades-ecuador-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460813 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Precio de la vivienda en Ecuador: Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca y otras ciudades (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-vivienda-ciudades-ecuador-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/precio-vivienda-ciudades-ecuador-2026