Cheapest and cheaper neighborhoods of Punta del Este 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 Punta del Este, the neighborhood with the most expensive m² to buy house is Manantiales (USD 3,750 / m²) and the cheapest Buenos Aires spa (USD 1,949 / m²), 1.9 times less. We compare 22 neighborhoods with at least 30 ads with area.
Abstract: We analyze 3,928 houses for sale with area declared in 22 districts of Punta del Este.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.

Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive per m² | springs: USD 3,750 |
| Cheapest per m² | Buenos Aires spa: USD 1,949 |
| Variance | 1.9 times |
| Barrios | 22 |
Quarter ranking by price of m²
| Barrio | per m² (median) | Price (medium) | Medium area (m²) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| springs | USD 3,750 | USD 1,050,000 | 300 | 233 |
| José Ignacio | USD 3,500 | USD 850,000 | 250 | 368 |
| Playa Brava | USD 3,456 | USD 1,125,000 | 380 | 44 |
| Montoya | USD 3,248 | USD 850,000 | 250 | 257 |
| Peninsula | USD 3,222 | USD 1,160,000 | 360 | 76 |
| El Chorro | USD 3,187 | USD 840,000 | 223 | 46 |
| The Bar | USD 3,000 | USD 690,000 | 232 | 544 |
| Golf | USD 2,996 | USD 1,650,000 | 557 | 125 |
| Rincón del Indio | USD 2,926 | USD 850,000 | 320 | 103 |
| Punta Piedras | USD 2,911 | USD 890,000 | 327 | 63 |
| San Rafael | USD 2,698 | USD 800,000 | 328 | 136 |
| Laguna del Sauce | USD 2,642 | USD 590,000 | 250 | 33 |
| Mansa Beach | USD 2,552 | USD 850,000 | 366 | 495 |
| Solanas | USD 2,552 | USD 530,000 | 212 | 118 |
| Beverly Hills | USD 2,524 | USD 1,250,000 | 446 | 33 |
| Punta Ballena | USD 2,500 | USD 454,500 | 200 | 430 |
| Lugano | USD 2,401 | USD 870,000 | 360 | 108 |
| Beef | USD 2,312 | USD 395,000 | 200 | 63 |
| Pines | USD 2,291 | USD 395,000 | 200 | 328 |
| Cordoba | USD 2,250 | USD 479,000 | 250 | 57 |
| Cantegril | USD 2,167 | USD 700,000 | 330 | 121 |
| Buenos Aires spa | USD 1,949 | USD 240,000 | 128 | 147 |
Medians; only neighborhoods with 30 ads or more with declared area.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Punta del Este to buy? springs, with USD 3,750 per m² in the median (October of 2026).
And the cheapest? Buenos Aires spa, with USD 1,949 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). Cheapest and cheaper neighborhoods of Punta del Este to buy house: ranking per m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-punta-del-este-venta-m²-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Original study (Spanish): Barrios más caros y más baratos de Punta del Este para comprar casa: ranking por m² (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-punta-del-este-venta-m2-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-punta-del-este-venta-m2-2026