In dollars or in local currency? What part of the housing is published in USD in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Chile and the Dominican Republic (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 Argentina, 100.0% of the houses for sale are published in dollars, but only 30.1% in rent; in Uruguay, 100.0% and 52.7%; in Peru, 33.9% and 28.2%. When comparing apartments from the same operation and country, the dollar ads ask between + 24.7% and + 369.0% compared to those published in local currency, because they are concentrated in different segments.

Abstract: We classified by currency 126,937 housing announcements from six countries where the local currency (or the FU) and the dollar live together.

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

Summary

Announcements published in dollars

Percentage of housing ads (all types) in USD. In Chile the alternative is the FU. Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia publish in dollars and are not included.

Apartments in dollars in front of local currency

The medium-sized ones are calculated separately in each currency and the local one is converted to dollars at the above rate; they are not mixed.

Frequently asked questions

In Argentina, you rent in dollars? Little: 30.1% of the rental ads are in dollars, compared to 100.0% for sale.

Is it sold in dollars in Peru? In part: 33.9% of the sales ads.

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). In dollars or in local currency? What part of the housing is published in USD in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Chile and the Dominican Republic (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-en-dolares-o-en-moneda-local-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475809 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): ¿En dólares o en moneda local? Qué parte de la vivienda se publica en USD en Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Perú, Chile y República Dominicana (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-en-dolares-o-en-moneda-local-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-en-dolares-o-en-moneda-local-latinoamerica-2026

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