The more rent is paid for each extra room in 13 Latin American and Portuguese capitals (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.

Moving from an apartment from 1 to one of 2 rooms increases the average rent by USD 36 per month in La Paz (Bolivia) and by USD 350 in Quito (Ecuador), the largest difference of 13 capitals. The third room amounts to USD 50 to USD 1,330 per month according to the capital. In Caracas, Venezuela, São Paulo, Brazil, the apartment of 2 medium rooms is rented for even less than that of 1, because those of 1 room are concentrated in more expensive areas.

Summary: We compare the average rental of 50,609 apartments of 1, 2 and 3 or more rooms in 13 capitals.

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

Summary

Medium rental per room and difference

Monthly rental ordered in the majority currency of each capital, converted to dollars; unmatched by neighborhood. Colombia: Bogotá; Brazil: São Paulo; Portugal: Lisbon.

Frequently asked questions

How much more does it cost to rent 2 rooms than 1? Between USD 36 (La Paz, Bolivia) and USD 350 (Quito, Ecuador) a month in the capitals where it goes up.

How much is the third room? From USD 50 to USD 1,330 more per month.

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). The more rent is paid for each extra room in 13 Latin American and Portuguese capitals (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuanto-cuesta-una-habitacion-extra-alquiler-capitales-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475772 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Cuánto más se paga de arriendo por cada habitación extra en 13 capitales de Latinoamérica y Portugal (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuanto-cuesta-una-habitacion-extra-arriendo-capitales-latinoamerica-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/cuanto-cuesta-una-habitacion-extra-arriendo-capitales-latinoamerica-2026

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