Housing in Quito: 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.
The sector with the most expensive square meter of Quito is Cumbayá, with USD 1,578 in the medium of departments for sale; the cheapest of the sample is Carcelén, with USD 642. A 2 room department is rented per USD 900 per month in the medium and sold per USD 139,000. The gross implicit return on rent is 8.7% per year.
Abstract: We analyze 3,644 ads of apartments in Quito (2,337 for sale and 1,307 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive (sale per m²) | Cumbayá: USD 1,578 |
| Cheapest (sale per m²) | Carcelén: USD 642 |
| Sale per m² (medium) | USD 1,000 |
| Rental 2 rooms | USD 900 |
| Gross implicit return | 8.7% |
| Announcements | 3,644 |
Sectors (30 ads or more)
| Sector | Sale per m² ($) | Monthly rental ($) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumbayá | 1,578 | 1,500 | 223 / 42 |
| The Carolina | 1,565 | 1,030 | 153 / 35 |
| González Suárez | 1,290 | 1,700 | 129 / 30 |
| Tombaco | 1,251 | — | 95 / — |
| Iñaquito | 1,204 | — | 194 / — |
| Rye | 1,130 | — | 41 / — |
| The Batan | 1,074 | — | 69 / — |
| Quito Tennis | 1,000 | — | 147 / — |
| Rumipamba | 980 | — | 42 / — |
| The Marshal | 910 | — | 34 / — |
| Conocoto | 883 | — | 69 / — |
| Solca | 859 | — | 37 / — |
| San Isidro del Inca | 857 | — | 49 / — |
| The Forest | 850 | — | 61 / — |
| Pinean | 817 | — | 100 / — |
| The County | 814 | — | 101 / — |
| Calderón | 806 | — | 35 / — |
| Kennedy | 788 | — | 70 / — |
| Southern Quito | 784 | — | 48 / — |
| Cochapamba | 771 | — | 35 / — |
| Northern Quito | 769 | — | 50 / — |
| Carcelén | 642 | — | 48 / — |
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 | USD 122,500 | USD 550 | 57 / 182 |
| 2 | USD 139,000 | USD 900 | 758 / 512 |
| 3 or more | USD 155,000 | USD 950 | 1,492 / 575 |
Frequently asked questions
What is Quito's most expensive sector? Cumbayá, with USD 1,578 per m² in apartments for sale (October of 2026).
Where is it cheaper to buy apartment in Quito? Among the sectors with 30 ads or more, in Carcelén: USD 642 per m².
How much does an apartment rent in Quito? The gross return is 8.7% per year (rent per m² × 12), before expenditure.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Quito? USD 900 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; announcements 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 Quito: price per m², rental, rooms and profitability (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-quito-por-sector-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23471221 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Quito: precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones y rentabilidad (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-quito-por-sector-2026
- Hugging Face: EXISTS aptologia/vivienda-quito-por-sector-2026