Price of square meter apartments for sale in 68 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.

The square meter of a most expensive apartment for sale in Latin America is in Punta del Este (Uruguay, spa), with a median of USD 3,604 / m²; the cheapest of the sample, in Maracaibo (Venezuela), with USD 758 / m². Bogotá is located 20 of 68 with USD 2,282 / m², and the most expensive Colombian city is El Retiro (USD 2,929 / m²). Lisbon, outside the region, marks USD 8,383 / m².

Abstract: We compare 185,251 apartments for sale with area declared in 68 cities of 12 countries.

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

Summary

Ranking of cities (30 ads or more)

Medium order price per square meter of apartments for sale, converted to dollars.

Frequently asked questions

What is the city with the most expensive square meter in Latin America? In the October Aptology sample of 2026, Punta del Este (Uruguay), with a median of USD 3,604 per m² in apartments for sale.

How much does the square meter cost in Bogotá in dollars? The median is USD 2,282 per m² (7.26 million pesos), set 20 of 68 cities.

Where is it cheaper to buy apartment in Latin America? Among the cities with 30 ads or more, in Maracaibo (Venezuela), with USD 758 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.
• 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). Price of square meter apartments for sale in 68 Latin American and Portugal cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m²-venta-apartamentos-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460708 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Precio del metro cuadrado de apartamentos en venta en 68 ciudades de Latinoamérica y Portugal (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m2-venta-apartamentos-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/precio-m2-venta-apartamentos-ciudades-latinoamerica-2026

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