More expensive and cheaper bairros from São Paulo to rent house: ranking per m² (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.
In São Paulo, the most expensive bairro with the most expensive m² to rent home is Brooklin (45.5 real (USD 8.9) / m² per month) and the cheapest Mooca (24.8 real (USD 4.9) / m² per month), 1.8 times less. We compare 6 bairros with at least 30 ads with area.
Abstract: We analyze 229 houses for rent with area declared in 6 bairros de São Paulo.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive per m² | Brooklin: 45.5 real (USD 8.9) |
| Cheapest per m² | Moca: 24.8 real (USD 4.9) |
| Variance | 1.8 times |
| Bairros | 6 |
Rating of bairros for m² price
| Bairro | per m² (median) | Rental (medium) | Medium area (m²) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklin | 45.5 reais (USD 8.9) | 10,915 reais (USD 2,145) | 242 | 44 |
| Vila Mariana | 39.0 reais (USD 7.7) | 7,705 reais (USD 1,514) | 206 | 44 |
| Ipiranga | 37.1 reais (USD 7.3) | 5,750 reais (USD 1,130) | 180 | 30 |
| Santana | 30.8 reais (USD 6.0) | 5,290 reais (USD 1,040) | 188 | 30 |
| Vila Formosa | 28.3 reais (USD 5.6) | 4,380 reais (USD 861) | 150 | 41 |
| Moca | 24.8 reais (USD 4.9) | 4,695 reais (USD 923) | 192 | 40 |
Medium; only bairros with 30 ads or more with declared area.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive bairro in São Paulo to rent? Brooklin, with 45.5 real (USD 8.9) per m² per month in the median (October of 2026).
And the cheapest? Moca, with 24.8 reales (USD 4.9) per m² 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.
- 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). More expensive and cheaper bairros from São Paulo to rent house: ranking per m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/bairros-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-sao-paulo-alquiler-m²-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Current data and listings: rentals in São Paulo on Aptología
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23522827 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Bairros más caros y más baratos de São Paulo para alquilar casa: ranking por m² (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/bairros-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-sao-paulo-alquiler-m2-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/bairros-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-sao-paulo-alquiler-m2-2026