Where it is more expensive and cheaper to rent a apartment of 3 or more bedrooms in Santiago: ranking of communes (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 Santiago, a department of 3 or more bedrooms is rented for 71 UF (USD 2,964) per month in the median in Vitacura, the most expensive commune, and 12 UF (USD 509) per month in San Miguel, the cheapest: 5.8 times less. We compare 8 communes with at least 30 ads from 3 or more bedrooms.
Abstract: We analyze 913 apartments for rent from 3 or more bedrooms in 8 Santiago communes.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive | Vitacura: 71 UF (USD 2,964) |
| Cheaper | San Miguel: 12 UF (USD 509) |
| Variance | 5.8 times |
| Common | 8 |
Monthly rental of a apartment of 3 or more bedrooms per commune
| Commune | Monthly rental (median) | Typical range (P25-P75) | Medium area (m²) | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitacura | 71 FU (USD 2,964) | 49 FU (USD 2,054) - 86 FU (USD 3,626) | 170 | 130 |
| The Barnechea | 65 FU (USD 2,724) | 50 FU (USD 2,096) - 90 FU (USD 3,772) | 182 | 74 |
| The Condes | 50 FU (USD 2,096) | 41 FU (USD 1,708) - 68 FU (USD 2,850) | 140 | 260 |
| Providence | 33 FU (USD 1,383) | 28 FU (USD 1,171) - 45 FU (USD 1,886) | 107 | 107 |
| Yams | 23 FU (USD 967) | 20 FU (USD 830) - 29 FU (USD 1,222) | 86 | 72 |
| Santiago Centro | 18 FU (USD 764) | 12 FU (USD 517) - 49 FU (USD 2,045) | 76 | 119 |
| Florida | 13 FU (USD 560) | 12 FU (USD 509) - 16 FU (USD 677) | 66 | 59 |
| San Miguel | 12 FU (USD 509) | 8 FU (USD 356) - 15 FU (USD 611) | 62 | 92 |
Medians of the order rental, without HOA fee or common costs; only communicate with 30 ads or more.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent a 3 apartment or more bedrooms in Vitacura? 71 FU (USD 2,964) per month in the median (October of 2026); the central half between 49 FU (USD 2,054) and 86 FU (USD 3,626).
Where is it cheaper to rent a 3 apartment or more bedrooms in Santiago? In San Miguel: 12 UF (USD 509) per month in the median.
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). Where it is more expensive and cheaper to rent a apartment of 3 or more bedrooms in Santiago: ranking of communes (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/alquiler-departamentos-de-3-o-mas-dormitorios-por-comuna-santiago-chile-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Original study (Spanish): Dónde es más caro y más barato arrendar un departamento de 3 o más dormitorios en Santiago: ranking de comunas (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/arriendo-departamentos-de-3-o-mas-dormitorios-por-comuna-santiago-chile-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/arriendo-departamentos-de-3-o-mas-dormitorios-por-comuna-santiago-chile-2026