Where should you buy a house instead of renting it?
By price / rent ratio, in San Isidro (Argentina): 5.9 years.
A house in San Isidro (Argentina) costs the same as 5.9 years of its rent, the lowest ratio of 48 cities; in Piedecuesta (Colombia) are 25.0 years. In 18 of 47 cities the house needs more years of rent than the apartment, that is, it pays less for rent.
Buy or rent a house? Years of rent worth a house in 48 Latin American cities (October 2026) · Data date: 18 October 2026 · Source: Aptología (aptologia.com)
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475764 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Comprar o arrendar una casa? Años de arriendo que vale una casa en 48 ciudades de Latinoamérica (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/comprar-o-arrendar-una-casa-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/comprar-o-arrendar-una-casa-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026
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