Housing in Cuenca (Ecuador): price per m², rental, rooms and profitability (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.
A 2 room department in Cuenca (Ecuador) is ordered in USD 127,000 for sale and is rented for USD 600 per month in the medium. The gross implicit return on rent is 5.1% per year.
Abstract: We analyze 610 ads from departments in Cuenca (Ecuador) (398 for sale and 212 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Sale per m² (medium) | USD 1,238 |
| Rental 2 rooms | USD 600 |
| Gross implicit return | 5.1% |
| Announcements | 610 |
Price per number of rooms
| Rooms | Sales price (medium) | Monthly rental (median) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USD 112,235 | — | 33 / — |
| 2 | USD 127,000 | USD 600 | 159 / 127 |
| 3 or more | USD 165,000 | USD 590 | 189 / 72 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does a department rent in Cuenca (Ecuador)? The gross return is 5.1% per year (rent per m² × 12), before expenditure.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Cuenca (Ecuador)? USD 600 per month in the median (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.
- 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: sale in dollars and rent in dollars, the majority currency of each operation; listings in another currency are excluded. Dollar equivalencies with the above rate.
- 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 Cuenca (Ecuador): price per m², rental, rooms and profitability (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-cuenca-ecuador-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462284 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Cuenca (Ecuador): precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones y rentabilidad (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-cuenca-ecuador-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-cuenca-ecuador-2026