What to rent in Latin America: distribution of the offer of apartments by number of rooms (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 53.8% of the apartments for rent are studios or 1 room; in Ecuador only 19.0%. In Colombia, 3 or more rooms are 47.4% of the offer.
Abstract: we are 136,163 apartments for rent from 13 countries.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More small offer | Argentina: 53.8% |
| Less small offer | Ecuador: 19.0% |
| Colombia, 3 or more. | 47.4% |
Country distribution
| Country | Study | 1 hab. | 2 hab. | 3 or more | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chile | 0.0% | 35.4% | 45.1% | 19.5% | 8,592 |
| Uruguay | 10.9% | 32.1% | 33.4% | 23.6% | 7,212 |
| Argentina | 21.8% | 32.0% | 26.8% | 19.4% | 5,979 |
| Dominican Republic | 0.0% | 29.6% | 32.3% | 38.1% | 4,186 |
| Paraguay | 10.6% | 28.7% | 42.6% | 18.1% | 5,032 |
| Mexico | 0.0% | 26.3% | 49.1% | 24.7% | 8,953 |
| Bolivia | 16.3% | 26.1% | 30.3% | 27.3% | 1,750 |
| Brazil | 15.5% | 24.8% | 37.8% | 21.9% | 12,864 |
| Portugal | 3.3% | 23.9% | 36.1% | 36.7% | 610 |
| Venezuela | 2.1% | 17.7% | 25.7% | 54.5% | 385 |
| Peru | 3.4% | 15.7% | 31.5% | 49.4% | 4,405 |
| Ecuador | 7.5% | 11.5% | 40.9% | 40.1% | 3,026 |
| Colombia | 10.1% | 10.2% | 32.3% | 47.4% | 73,169 |
Study includes study, mono-environment, kitnet, suite or mini-apartment, depending on the country.
Frequently asked questions
Is it difficult to find rental apartments in Colombia? 1 room studios and apartments account for 20.3% of the offer of rent in Colombia.
In which country are there more studies and mono-environments for rent? In Argentina, where they are 53.8% along with those of 1 room.
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.
- 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). What to rent in Latin America: distribution of the offer of apartments by number of rooms (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/habitaciones-oferta-de-alquiler-por-pais-latinoamerica-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460732 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Qué se arrienda en Latinoamérica: reparto de la oferta de apartamentos por número de habitaciones (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/habitaciones-oferta-de-arriendo-por-pais-latinoamerica-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/habitaciones-oferta-de-arriendo-por-pais-latinoamerica-2026