Gross rent return by country: 12 Latin American and Portuguese countries (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.

Between 12 countries, the rent is more than the purchase price in Venezuela (10.1% gross per year) and less in Portugal (3.9%). Colombia is at 8.1%.

Abstract: We cross-rent and sell by m² of 292,831 apartments.

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

Summary

Profitability by country

It adds all the cities of the country with ads; the big cities weigh more.

Frequently asked questions

Which Latin American country has the highest rental return? Venezuela, with 10.1% gross per year in apartments according to Aptology (October of 2026).

What is the profitability of the rent in Colombia? 8.1% gross annual: USD 13.7 per m² per month compared to USD 2,027 per m² of sale.

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.
• Gross return: medium rental per m² × 12 / medium price of sale per m² of apartments in the country. Approach with medium of different offers.
• 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). Gross rent return by country: 12 Latin American and Portuguese countries (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rentabilidad-bruta-alquiler-por-pais-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460715 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Rentabilidad bruta del arriendo por país: 12 países de Latinoamérica y Portugal (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rentabilidad-bruta-alquiler-por-pais-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/rentabilidad-bruta-alquiler-por-pais-latinoamerica-2026

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