Housing in Uruguay by city: price per m², rental of 2 rooms and years of rent in 3 cities (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 most expensive square meter of apartment in Uruguay is in Punta del Este, with USD 3,604 in the medium of ads for sale; the cheapest of the 3 measured cities, in Maldonado, with USD 2,497. In Montevideo, an apartment of 2 rooms is rented for USD 826 per month and sold for USD 203,500: 20.5 years of rent.

Abstract: We analyze 15,647 apartment ads in 3 cities of Uruguay.

Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.

Summary

Cities of Uruguay

Medium apartments; - indicates less than 30 ads. Years of rent = price of 2 rooms ¬ (rental of 2 rooms × 12); not calculated in seasonal destinations.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most expensive city in Uruguay to buy? Punta del Este USD 3,604 per m² in the median (October of 2026).

How much does it cost to rent in Montevideo? An apartment of 2 rooms, USD 826 per month in the middle.

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: In each city and operation only the majority currency of the ads is used (the ads in another currency are excluded) and the median is converted to dollars at the rate mentioned; no different currency ads are ever averaged.
• Season destinations: Punta del Este, Maldonado and Punta Cana are excluded from the comparisons of years of rent because many rental ads are seasonal (monthly summer price), which inflates the rent and would give an artificially low relationship.
• 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 Uruguay by city: price per m², rental of 2 rooms and years of rent in 3 cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-uruguay-por-ciudad-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475851 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Uruguay por ciudad: precio por m², arriendo de 2 habitaciones y años de arriendo en 3 ciudades (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-uruguay-por-ciudad-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-uruguay-por-ciudad-2026

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