September 2026
El Salvador real estate market report — September 2026
Apartments in El Salvador stand at $2,798 per m² (sale) in September 2026.
Houses stand at $1,422 per m².
Monthly summary of the El Salvador real estate market by TuLugar, over 4,611 listings analysed once duplicates are removed. These are asking prices, not closing prices.
Apartments: $/m² (sale)
$2,798/m²
Houses: $/m² (sale): $1,422/m²across 917 houses reporting built area (63% of houses for sale)
Typical apartment price
- 2 bedrooms
- $251,250
- 3 bedrooms
- $320,000
Key takeaways
- San Salvador is the country's most expensive city for apartments: $2,821/m².
- Distrito Municipal 3 is the most expensive neighborhood in San Salvador: $2,801/m².
- The highest gross apartment yield in San Salvador is in Distrito Municipal 3: 6.0% a year.
- Gross apartment rental yield is 6.0% a year — about 17 years of rent to repay the purchase.
Key figures
Each figure is computed per property type — we never blend apartments, houses and land into one average.Apartments: $/m² (sale)
$2,798/m²
across 437 apartments for sale
Houses: $/m² (sale)
$1,422/m²
across 917 houses reporting built area (63% of houses for sale)
Median sale price (apartment)
$298,000
Median sale price (house)
$330,000
Median rent (apartment)
$1,500
Gross yield (apartments)
6.0%
≈ 17 years of rent to repay the purchase
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Sources & methodology
Data: the residential inventory TuLugar monitors continuously in the country — listings published on the site plus supply we track for statistics only — on asking prices, not closing prices, computed per property type and over unique units, plus public short-term-rental data. The full construction is in the methodology.
How each figure is calculated
- Apartments, $/m²: median asking price per built m² of apartments for sale (437 in this report).
- Houses, $/m²: median asking price per built m² of houses for sale that report their built area (917 of 1,467, 63%). Built areas outside 30–2,000 m² and prices outside USD 100–10,000 per m² are excluded. The median house price uses every house for sale.
- Median sale prices: the median asking price of each property type, never mixing types.
- Median rent: apartments on long-term rental, in US dollars per month.
- Gross yield: a median apartment’s annual rent divided by its median sale price. It is indicative: expenses, taxes and vacant months are not deducted.
- Properties analyzed: 4,611 unique units from the month’s census; a property listed by several agencies counts once.
The median rent covers long-term rentals; nightly and per-season listings are excluded from the calculation. In markets with a large holiday component, monthly rents in resort areas are seasonal and far above the capital — read them city by city rather than as a single figure.
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