Housing in Monterrey and its metropolitan area: 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.
To rent an apartment in Monterrey and its metropolitan area costs more in Santa María, with a medium rent of 37,000 Mexican pesos (USD 2,004) per month, and less in Rome, with 18,980 Mexican pesos (USD 1,028).
Abstract: We analyze 1,834 ads from departments in Monterrey and its metropolitan area (0 for sale and 1,834 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Higher rental | Santa Maria: 37,000 Mexican pesos (USD 2,004) |
| Lower rental | Rome: 18,980 Mexican pesos (USD 1,028) |
| Rental 2 rooms | 29,000 Mexican pesos (USD 1,571) |
| Announcements | 1,834 |
Colonies (30 ads or more)
| Cologne | Monthly rental (Mexican pesos) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Maria | 37,000 | — / 73 |
| Brick | 35,000 | — / 147 |
| Bishops | 31,000 | — / 47 |
| Saint Jerome | 28,000 | — / 55 |
| Technological | 27,100 | — / 52 |
| Rome | 18,980 | — / 43 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | — | 19,000 Mexican pesos (USD 1,029) | — / 522 |
| 2 | — | 29,000 Mexican pesos (USD 1,571) | — / 959 |
| 3 or more | — | 39,500 Mexican pesos (USD 2,139) | — / 301 |
Frequently asked questions
Where is it most expensive to rent in Monterrey and its metropolitan area? In Santa María: 37,000 Mexican pesos (USD 2,004) per month in the medium.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Monterrey and its metropolitan area? 29,000 Mexican pesos (USD 1,571) 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.
- 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: rental in Mexican pesos, the majority currency of each operation; listings in another currency are excluded. Dollar equivalencies with the above rate.
- Area: Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, San Nicolás de los Garza, Guadalupe, Apodaca; the municipalities other than Monterrey appear as their own 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 Monterrey and its metropolitan area: price per m², rental, rooms and profitability (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/renta-departamentos-monterrey-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462260 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Monterrey y su área metropolitana: precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones y rentabilidad (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/renta-departamentos-monterrey-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/renta-departamentos-monterrey-2026