More expensive and cheaper districts of Lima to rent apartment: 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 rent apartment is Barranco (44.0 soles (USD 12.8) / m² per month) and the cheapest La Molina (22.7 soles (USD 6.6) / m² per month), 1.9 times less. We compare 14 districts with at least 30 ads with area.

Abstract: We analyze 2,709 apartments for rent with declared area in 14 districts of Lima.

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

Summary

District ranking by price of m²

Medians; only districts with 30 ads or more with declared area.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most expensive district in Lima to rent? Barranco, with 44.0 suns (USD 12.8) per m² per month in the median (October of 2026).

And the cheapest? The Molina, with 22.7 suns (USD 6.6) 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 districts of Lima to rent apartment: ranking per m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/distritos-mas-caros-y-baratos-lima-alquiler-m²-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23518105 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Distritos más caros y más baratos de Lima para alquilar departamento: ranking por m² (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/distritos-mas-caros-y-baratos-lima-alquiler-m2-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-18-2026/tree/main/distritos-mas-caros-y-baratos-lima-alquiler-m2-2026

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