How much the HOA fee (condo or maintenance) weighs on rent in Latin America (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 rate of HOA fee or condo is in the median to 23.2% of the rent in Brazil, the highest in the region, compared to 9.1% in Bolivia. In Colombia it is 15.8% of the rent.
Abstract: We analyze 27,639 apartments for rent that declare the rate.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Greater weight | Brazil: 23.2% |
| Less weight | Bolivia: 9.1% |
| Colombia | 15.8% |
By country
| Country | Rental rate (median) | Ads with the rate |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 23.2% | 10,491 |
| Uruguay | 16.1% | 2,878 |
| Colombia | 15.8% | 12,969 |
| Ecuador | 12.5% | 52 |
| Peru | 10.3% | 833 |
| Bolivia | 9.1% | 416 |
Monthly rate of HOA fee, condo, common costs or maintenance divided by rent, ad by ad.
By city (100 ads or more)
| City | Rental fee | Announcements |
|---|---|---|
| Punta del Este (Uruguay) | 25.0% | 219 |
| São Paulo, Brazil | 23.2% | 10,491 |
| Cúcuta (Colombia) | 22.0% | 180 |
| Ibagué (Colombia) | 18.6% | 115 |
| Bucaramanga, Colombia | 18.0% | 276 |
| Floridablanca (Colombia) | 17.9% | 265 |
| Cali (Colombia) | 17.3% | 180 |
| Santa Marta (Colombia) | 17.0% | 244 |
| Barranquilla (Colombia) | 16.7% | 1,565 |
| Cartagena, Colombia | 16.2% | 801 |
| Chia (Colombia) | 16.2% | 206 |
| Bogotá, Colombia | 16.1% | 6,456 |
| Montevideo, Uruguay | 15.7% | 2,654 |
| Pereira, Colombia | 15.2% | 878 |
| Cajicá (Colombia) | 14.3% | 128 |
| Armenia, Colombia | 14.0% | 114 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) | 12.4% | 212 |
| Medellín (Colombia) | 11.2% | 707 |
| Envigado (Colombia) | 11.1% | 127 |
| Lima, Peru | 10.3% | 821 |
| La Paz, Bolivia | 7.5% | 191 |
Frequently asked questions
How much is the HOA fee against the rent in Colombia? The median is 15.8% of the monthly rental, in apartments that declare the rate.
Where is the condo rate higher? In Brazil: 23.2% of the rent in the median.
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.
- Rate: HOA fee (Colombia), condo (Brazil), common costs or maintenance according to the country, as declared by the announcement; only announcements declaring it. It is a percentage of the ad rental per ad, without currency conversion.
- 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 the HOA fee (condo or maintenance) weighs on rent in Latin America (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/administracion-condominio-porcentaje-del-alquiler-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460728 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Cuánto pesa la administración (condominio o mantenimiento) sobre el arriendo en Latinoamérica (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/administracion-condominio-porcentaje-del-arriendo-latinoamerica-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/administracion-condominio-porcentaje-del-arriendo-latinoamerica-2026