How much it costs to buy an apartment of 1, 2 or 3 rooms in 12 Latin American and Portuguese capitals, and how much each extra room is worth (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.

An apartment of 2 rooms for sale is requested in USD 110,000 in La Paz (Bolivia), the cheapest of 12 capital, and in USD 685,691 in Lisbon (Portugal). From 1 to 2 rooms it increases the purchase up to USD 166,364 in Lisbon (Portugal); in Caracas (Venezuela) the 1 medium room is even more expensive, because it is concentrated in areas of higher price.

Summary: We compare the average price of 83,421 apartments for sale from 1, 2 and 3 or more rooms in 12 capitals.

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

Summary

Medium price for rooms and difference

Price ordered in the majority currency of each capital, converted to dollars; unmatched by neighborhood.

Frequently asked questions

How much does an apartment cost 2 rooms in Bogotá in dollars? USD 169,662 in the medium of ads (October of 2026).

What is the cheapest capital to buy 2 rooms? La Paz, Bolivia: USD 110,000.

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 much it costs to buy an apartment of 1, 2 or 3 rooms in 12 Latin American and Portuguese capitals, and how much each extra room is worth (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-de-venta-por-habitaciones-capitales-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• Current data and listings: Aptología: homes for rent and for sale
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475777 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Cuánto cuesta comprar un apartamento de 1, 2 o 3 habitaciones en 12 capitales de Latinoamérica y Portugal, y cuánto vale cada habitación extra (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-de-venta-por-habitaciones-capitales-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/precio-de-venta-por-habitaciones-capitales-latinoamerica-2026

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