Large or small apartments: how the price changes per m² according to size in 12 Latin American and Portugal countries (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 8 of 12 countries the square meter of an apartment of 120 m² or more is requested cheaper than that of one of less 60 m²; the greatest difference is in Ecuador (- 44.1%). In Colombia, however, the large costs + 19.4% per m². In Colombia the difference is + 19.4%.

Summary: We compare the price per m² of 179,615 apartments for sale in three sections of size, within each country and in its own currency.

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

Summary

Price per m² per section of size (currency of each country)

Medians in the majority currency of each country (not converted: the comparison is in percentage within each country).

Frequently asked questions

Is the m² of a large apartment in Latin America cheaper? In 8 of 12 countries yes; the greatest difference is in Ecuador (- 44.1%).

And in Colombia? The m² of an apartment of 120 m² or more is + 19.4% against one of less than 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: each country is analysed in its majority currency of sale; no coins are mixed or converted.
• 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). Large or small apartments: how the price changes per m² according to size in 12 Latin American and Portugal countries (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m²-apartamentos-grandes-vs-pequenos-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23471257 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Apartamentos grandes o pequeños: cómo cambia el precio por m² según el tamaño en 12 países de Latinoamérica y Portugal (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m2-apartamentos-grandes-vs-pequenos-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: EXISTS aptologia/precio-m2-apartamentos-grandes-vs-pequenos-latinoamerica-2026

More questions

• Is the m² of a large apartment in Latin America cheaper?
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