How many square meters are purchased with 500,000 dollars? 30 Latin American and Portuguese 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.

With 500,000 dollars are bought about 660 m² of apartment in Maracaibo (Venezuela), the most surrendering city of 30, and only 60 m² in Lisbon (Portugal).

Summary: We use the average price per m² in dollars of 64,920 apartments for sale with area declared in 30 cities.

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

Summary

Square meters for 500,000 dollars

500,000 dollars - average price per m² in dollars; reference size, not a specific ad.

Frequently asked questions

Where does a budget of 500,000 dollars give more? In Maracaibo (Venezuela): about 660 m².

Where does he pay the least? In Lisbon (Portugal): about 60 m².

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: each ad is converted to dollars at the rate cited before calculating the median price per m²; Colombia is analyzed separately in pesos.
• 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). How many square meters are purchased with 500,000 dollars? 30 Latin American and Portuguese cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-compra-500000-dolares-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23512898 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): ¿Cuántos metros cuadrados se compran con 500.000 dólares? 30 ciudades de Latinoamérica y Portugal (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-compra-500000-dolares-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-18-2026/tree/main/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-compra-500000-dolares-latinoamerica-2026

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