Rental per square metre in 72 Latin American and Portuguese 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 highest square meter rental of the sample is in Punta del Este (Uruguay): USD 40.6 per m² per month; the lowest, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with USD 4.0. In Bogotá, the average rent is USD 15.2 per m² per month (post 15 of 72).

Abstract: We compare 118,072 apartments for rent with area declared in 72 cities.

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

Summary

Ranking of cities (30 ads or more)

Frequently asked questions

Where is it most expensive to rent per square metre in Latin America? In Punta del Este (Uruguay), with a median of USD 40.6 per m² per month.

How much does the rent per m² in Bogotá cost in dollars? USD 15.2 per m² per month in the median (48,246 pesos).

Where is it cheaper to rent by m²? In Cochabamba, Bolivia, with USD 4.0 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.
• 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). Rental per square metre in 72 Latin American and Portuguese cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/alquiler-m²-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• Current data and listings: Aptología: homes for rent and for sale
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460710 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Arriendo por metro cuadrado en 72 ciudades de Latinoamérica y Portugal (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/arriendo-m2-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/arriendo-m2-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026

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