House or apartment: how much the price changes per square metre in each Latin American country (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 Paraguay the square meter of a house for sale costs 50.1% less than that of an apartment; in Colombia, 28.2% less. The lowest difference is in Peru, where the house leaves 20.0% cheaper per m².
Abstract: We compare 287,780 houses and apartments for sale with area in 11 countries.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Higher discount of the house | Paraguay: 50.1% |
| Colombia | −28.2% |
By country
| Country | Apartment USD / m² | House USD / m² | House in front of apartment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paraguay | 1,828 | 912 | −50.1% |
| Argentina | 2,568 | 1,583 | −38.4% |
| Venezuela | 1,375 | 897 | −34.7% |
| Bolivia | 1,150 | 800 | −30.4% |
| Uruguay | 3,286 | 2,298 | −30.1% |
| Colombia | 2,027 | 1,455 | −28.2% |
| Mexico | 2,893 | 2,181 | −24.6% |
| Ecuador | 1,100 | 831 | −24.4% |
| Portugal | 7,545 | 5,845 | −22.5% |
| Dominican Republic | 1,765 | 1,400 | −20.6% |
| Peru | 2,133 | 1,706 | −20.0% |
Frequently asked questions
Is the square meter of a house cheaper than that of an apartment? In almost the whole region, yes. In Colombia the house costs 28.2% less per m² in the median.
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). House or apartment: how much the price changes per square metre in each Latin American country (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/casa-vs-apartamento-precio-m²-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460738 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Casa o apartamento: cuánto cambia el precio por metro cuadrado en cada país de Latinoamérica (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/casa-vs-apartamento-precio-m2-latinoamerica-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/casa-vs-apartamento-precio-m2-latinoamerica-2026