More expensive and cheaper districts of Lima to buy 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 Lima, the district with the most expensive m² to buy house is San Isidro (9,191 soles (USD 2,675) / m²) and the cheapest Chaclacayo (2,879 soles (USD 838) / m²), 3.2 times less. We compare 14 districts with at least 30 ads with area.
Abstract: We analyze 1,934 houses for sale with area declared in 14 districts of Lima.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive per m² | San Isidro: 9,191 soles (USD 2,675) |
| Cheapest per m² | Chaclacayo: 2,879 soles (USD 838) |
| Variance | 3.2 times |
| Districts | 14 |
District ranking by price of m²
| District | per m² (median) | Price (medium) | Medium area (m²) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Isidro | 9,191 soles (USD 2,675) | 3,900,375 soles (USD 1,135,307) | 422 | 190 |
| Miraflores | 7,968 soles (USD 2,319) | 2,501,250 soles (USD 728,055) | 335 | 156 |
| Punta Hermosa | 7,350 soles (USD 2,139) | 2,145,000 soles (USD 624,359) | 320 | 35 |
| Santiago de Surco | 6,719 soles (USD 1,956) | 2,156,754 soles (USD 627,780) | 318 | 406 |
| San Borja | 6,699 soles (USD 1,950) | 2,249,100 soles (USD 654,660) | 342 | 94 |
| San Miguel | 6,223 soles (USD 1,811) | 1,142,400 soles (USD 332,526) | 188 | 59 |
| Free People | 5,860 soles (USD 1,706) | 1,303,500 soles (USD 379,418) | 225 | 38 |
| The Mill | 5,320 soles (USD 1,549) | 3,000,000 soles (USD 873,229) | 595 | 673 |
| Pussy | 4,521 soles (USD 1,316) | 1,332,000 soles (USD 387,714) | 317 | 75 |
| The Olives | 4,473 soles (USD 1,302) | 945,250 soles (USD 275,140) | 202 | 38 |
| San Martín de Porres | 4,099 soles (USD 1,193) | 700,000 soles (USD 203,753) | 188 | 45 |
| San Juan de Lurigancho | 3,692 soles (USD 1,075) | 699,200 soles (USD 203,521) | 170 | 50 |
| Lurin | 3,391 soles (USD 987) | 972,000 soles (USD 282,926) | 244 | 38 |
| Chaclacayo | 2,879 soles (USD 838) | 1,041,600 soles (USD 303,185) | 331 | 37 |
Medians; only districts with 30 ads or more with declared area.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive district in Lima to buy? San Isidro, with 9,191 suns (USD 2,675) per m² in the median (October of 2026).
And the cheapest? Chaclacayo, with 2,879 suns (USD 838) 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: 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 districts of Lima to buy house: ranking per m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/distritos-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-lima-venta-m²-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Original study (Spanish): Distritos más caros y más baratos de Lima para comprar casa: ranking por m² (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/distritos-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-lima-venta-m2-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/distritos-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-lima-venta-m2-2026