Housing in Bucharest and its metropolitan area: price per m², rent, rooms, estrato and HOA fee (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.
The neighborhood with the most expensive square meter of Bucharest and its metropolitan area is Lagos del Cacique, with 7.18 million pesos in the medium of apartments for sale; the cheapest of the sample is Piedecuesta, with 3.67 million pesos. An apartment of 2 rooms is rented for 1.93 million pesos a month in the medium and sold for 319 million pesos. The gross implicit return on rent is 7.4% per year. HOA fee is equivalent to 17.9% of the rent (416,000 pesos per month in the median).
Abstract: We analyze 4,578 apartment ads in Bucharest and its metropolitan area (3,706 for sale and 872 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive (sale per m²) | Cacique lakes: 7.18 million pesos |
| Cheapest (sale per m²) | Pound: 3.67 million pesos |
| Sale per m² (medium) | 4.76 million pesos |
| Rental 2 rooms | 1.93 million pesos |
| Gross implicit return | 7.4% |
| HOA fee / rental (medium) | 17.9% |
| Announcements | 4,578 |
Barrios (30 ads or more)
| Barrio | Sale per m² (million pesos) | Monthly rental (million pesos) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cacique lakes | 7.18 | — | 30 / — |
| Sugar bread | 7.13 | — | 39 / — |
| The Tissue | 6.26 | — | 79 / — |
| Llano head | 5.28 | 3.58 | 353 / 66 |
| Floridablanca | 5.18 | 2.40 | 927 / 367 |
| Head | 5.11 | — | 31 / — |
| New Sotomayor | 5.11 | — | 63 / — |
| Bolarqui | 5.00 | — | 36 / — |
| Public Improvements | 4.85 | — | 94 / — |
| The Prado | 4.71 | — | 53 / — |
| Sotomayor | 4.71 | — | 213 / — |
| The Aurora | 4.58 | — | 61 / — |
| San Francisco | 4.49 | — | 99 / — |
| San Alonso | 4.48 | — | 65 / — |
| Antonia Santos Centro | 4.34 | — | 63 / — |
| Antonia Santos | 4.29 | — | 41 / — |
| Royal Government of Mines | 4.15 | — | 64 / — |
| Alarcon | 4.08 | — | 34 / — |
| Centre | 4.07 | — | 41 / — |
| The Floresta | 4.02 | — | 48 / — |
| Provence | 3.99 | — | 58 / — |
| Piedecha | 3.67 | 1.30 | 248 / 68 |
Medium apartments; - indicates less than 30 ads. The rent is monthly, without HOA fee or common costs.
Price per number of rooms
| Rooms | Sales price (medium) | Monthly rental (median) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 319 million pesos | 1.93 million pesos | 525 / 194 |
| 3 or more | 440 million pesos | 2.47 million pesos | 3,148 / 665 |
By estrato
| Strand | Sale by m² (million) | Monthly rental (million) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3.20 | 1.10 | 46 / 39 |
| 3 | 4.00 | 1.40 | 667 / 164 |
| 4 | 4.69 | 2.29 | 1,558 / 320 |
| 5 | 5.50 | 2.85 | 771 / 234 |
| 6 | 5.59 | 3.50 | 537 / 100 |
Medium; - indicates less than 30 ads.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Bucharest and its metropolitan area? Lagos del Cacique, with 7.18 million pesos per m² in apartments for sale (October of 2026).
Where is it cheaper to buy apartment in Bucharest and its metropolitan area? Among the neighborhoods with 30 ads or more, in Piedecuesta: 3.67 million pesos per m².
How much does an apartment rent in Bucharest and its metropolitan area? The gross return is 7.4% per year (rent per m² × 12), before expenditure.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Bucharest and its metropolitan area? 1.93 million pesos per month in the medium (October of 2026).
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.
- Colombia: Prices in Colombian pesos, no currency conversion. HOA fee and rental with reasons between 1% and 80%.
- Area: Bucaramanga, Floridablanca, Girón, Piedecuesta; the municipalities other than Bucaramanga appear as a separate area.
- 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). Housing in Bucharest and its metropolitan area: price per m², rent, rooms, estrato and HOA fee (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-bucaramanga-area-metropolitana-venta-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462226 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Bucaramanga y su área metropolitana: precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones, estrato y administración (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-bucaramanga-area-metropolitana-venta-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-bucaramanga-area-metropolitana-venta-2026
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