How much it costs to rent a single environment, study or studio in 27 Latin American 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.

A mono-environment or studio is rented by USD 277 per month in the median of Rosario (Argentina), the lowest of 27 cities, and by USD 1,005 per month in El Retiro (Colombia), the highest. In Bogotá, USD 597 per month. Among the capitals, from USD 429 in Buenos Aires City to USD 650 in Quito.

Abstract: We compare 11,828 ads in 27 cities with 30 ads or more.

Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.

Summary

Cities from minor to major

Medians in the majority currency of each city, converted to dollars.

Frequently asked questions

Where is it cheaper to rent a single environment or studio? In Rosario (Argentina): USD 277 per month in the median (October of 2026).

Where's the most expensive? In El Retiro (Colombia): USD 1,005 per month.

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: In each city and operation only the majority currency of the ads is used (the ads in another currency are excluded) and the median is converted to dollars at the rate mentioned; no different currency ads are ever averaged.
• Season destinations: Punta del Este, Maldonado and Punta Cana are excluded for rent, where many ads are seasonal rentals.
• 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). How much it costs to rent a single environment, study or studio in 27 Latin American cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/alquiler-de-monoambientes-y-apartaestudios-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475796 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Cuánto cuesta arrendar un monoambiente, estudio o apartaestudio en 27 ciudades de Latinoamérica (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/arriendo-de-monoambientes-y-apartaestudios-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/arriendo-de-monoambientes-y-apartaestudios-latinoamerica-2026

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