How many times the neighborhood costs more than the cheapest: square meter gap in 33 Latin American and Portugal 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.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the square meter of Puerto Madero (USD 5,712) costs 4.8 times that of Nueva Pompeya (USD 1,189), the largest gap between areas of 33 cities. The smallest gap is in Ibagué (Colombia): 1.2 times between Warsaw and Picaleña and Mirolindo.

Summary: We compare the median price per m² of apartments for sale in 918 areas with 30 ads or more than 33 cities with at least 5 areas.

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

Summary

More expensive and cheaper area per city

Only areas (district, district, commune, colony or sector) with 30 ads or more with area; the more areas a city measures, the greater the gap.

Frequently asked questions

What city has the most price inequality between neighborhoods? Buenos Aires City (Argentina): 4.8 times between Puerto Madero and Nueva Pompeya.

What is the most expensive neighborhood in Bogotá by m²? The Virrey, with USD 3,666 per 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: 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.
• 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 times the neighborhood costs more than the cheapest: square meter gap in 33 Latin American and Portugal cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/brecha-entre-el-barrio-mas-caro-y-el-mas-barato-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475786 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Cuántas veces más cuesta el barrio más caro que el más barato: brecha del metro cuadrado en 33 ciudades de Latinoamérica y Portugal (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/brecha-entre-el-barrio-mas-caro-y-el-mas-barato-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/brecha-entre-el-barrio-mas-caro-y-el-mas-barato-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026

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