Apartments for rent in São Paulo by size: price and m² of each group (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, an apartment for rent from the group "Less than 50 m²" is requested in 2,380 reales (USD 468) per month in the median and one from the group "More than 160 m²" in 13,600 reales (USD 2,673) per month (+ 471.4%). The cheapest per square metre is "50 - 70 m²" (54.5 real (USD 10.7) / m² per month) and the most expensive "120 - 160 m²" (73.4 real (USD 14.4) / m² per month).
Abstract: We analyze 10,870 apartments for rent in São Paulo with declared size.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Less than 50 m² | 2,380 reais (USD 468) |
| 50–70 m² | 3,195 reais (USD 628) |
| 70–90 m² | 5,000 reais (USD 983) |
| 90–120 m² | 7,000 reais (USD 1,376) |
| 120–160 m² | 10,000 reais (USD 1,965) |
| More than 160 m² | 13,600 reais (USD 2,673) |
| Announcements | 10,870 |
Monthly rental and m² by size
| Size | Monthly rental (median) | Typical range (P25-P75) | per m² (median) | Medium area (m²) | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than 50 m² | 2,380 reais (USD 468) | 1,775 reais (USD 349) - 3,200 reais (USD 629) | 64.5 reais (USD 12.7) | 37 | 4,173 |
| 50–70 m² | 3,195 reais (USD 628) | 2,300 reais (USD 452) - 4,900 reais (USD 963) | 54.5 reais (USD 10.7) | 58 | 2,214 |
| 70–90 m² | 5,000 reais (USD 983) | 3,446 reais (USD 677) - 7,500 reais (USD 1,474) | 64.7 reais (USD 12.7) | 77 | 1,383 |
| 90–120 m² | 7,000 reais (USD 1,376) | 5,000 reais (USD 983) - 10,240 reais (USD 2,012) | 69.4 reais (USD 13.6) | 100 | 1,130 |
| 120–160 m² | 10,000 reais (USD 1,965) | 6,800 reais (USD 1,336) - 14,000 reais (USD 2,751) | 73.4 reais (USD 14.4) | 135 | 875 |
| More than 160 m² | 13,600 reais (USD 2,673) | 9,926 reais (USD 1,951) - 19,100 reais (USD 3,754) | 63.6 reais (USD 12.5) | 208 | 1,095 |
Medians of the order rental, without HOA fee or common costs; groups with less than 30 ads are omitted.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an apartment of what size in São Paulo? Less than 50 m²: 2,380 real (USD 468) per month; 50 - 70 m²: 3,195 real (USD 628) per month; 70 - 90 m²: 5,000 real (USD 983) per month; 90 - 120 m²: 7,000 real (USD 1,376) per month; 120 - 160 m²: 10,000 real (USD 1,965 per month; More than 160 m²: 13,600 real (USD 2,673) per month (medium October of 2026).
Which group gets cheaper per m²? The cheapest per square metre is "50 - 70 m²" (54.5 real (USD 10.7) / m² per month) and the most expensive "120 - 160 m²" (73.4 real (USD 14.4) / 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.
- Cordura: only published if the median grows in size.
- 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). Apartments for rent in São Paulo by size: price and m² of each group (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/apartamentos-en-alquiler-por-tamano-sao-paulo-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23516349 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Apartamentos en alquiler en São Paulo según tamaño: precio y m² de cada grupo (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/apartamentos-en-alquiler-por-tamano-sao-paulo-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-18-2026/tree/main/apartamentos-en-alquiler-por-tamano-sao-paulo-2026