Rental market
Rental yield by zone — Guatemala
What a home earns in rent in Guatemala, area by area: the median asking rent, the sale price it pairs with, and the gross yield between the two — from the visible offer, rebuilt every night.
gross yield
The rent a property earns in a year as a share of its price: median monthly asking rent × 12 ÷ median asking sale price, for the same area, property type and bedroom count. It is before vacancy, taxes, maintenance and management.
Data as of 2026-10-25
Benchmark month 2026-10
Window 30 days
Asking prices, not closed deals
gross yield
6.3%
estimated net 4.4%
Solid
Solid
Median rent
US$1,150/month
middle half US$820–US$1,650
Apartment rent by bedrooms
1 bdUS$800
2 bdUS$1,100
3 bdUS$1,500
median asking rent a month
Rent per m²
US$10.21
median, per m² a month
median sale price
US$264,556
same universe as the rent
Zones with a solid yield
4
zones with a published rent: 12
The country yield is a blend of the apartment and house yields by bedroom count, weighted by their rents, so it is not the median rent × 12 divided by the median price shown next to it.
Ranking
Top 5 zones by gross yield
All homes and all bedrooms, ranked by gross yield. The full table covers every zone and administrative level, by property type and bedrooms.
| Zone | gross yield | Est. net yield | Median rent /month |
Rent band P25–P75 |
Rent per m² | median sale price | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Zona 10Ciudad de Guatemala | 6.9% | US$1,250 | US$229,690 | Solid | |||
| 2Zona 15Ciudad de Guatemala | 6.3% | US$1,322 | US$287,440 | Solid | |||
| 3Zona 14Ciudad de Guatemala | 6.3% | US$1,700 | US$334,486 | Solid | |||
| 4Zona 13Ciudad de Guatemala | 6.2% | US$1,050 | US$175,000 | Preliminary | |||
| 5Zona 16Ciudad de Guatemala | 6.0% | US$1,300 | US$344,782 | Solid |
— withheld: mixed submarkets or too few sales to pair
x.x% dotted: blended yield (mixed cell)
Solid 30 or more rents and sales
Preliminary 15 to 29 on the thinner side, or a mixed cell that could not be blended
Comparison
The 7 markets side by side
Country level, all homes and all bedrooms, same method in every row. Click a row to open that country.
| Country | gross yield | Est. net yield | Median rent | Rent per m² | median sale price | Zones with a solid yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇴 República Dominicana | 7.1% | 4.9% | US$1,400 | US$12.86 | US$280,000 | 16 |
| 🇵🇦 Panamá | 6.5% | 4.6% | US$1,700 | US$11.98 | US$315,500 | 0 |
| 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | 6.4% | 4.5% | US$2,000 | US$13.95 | US$495,000 | 2 |
| 🇬🇹 Guatemala | 6.3% | 4.4% | US$1,150 | US$10.21 | US$264,556 | 4 |
| 🇸🇻 El Salvador | 5.7% | 4.0% | US$1,175 | US$10.00 | US$248,000 | 0 |
| 🇧🇿 Belice | 5.5% | 3.8% | US$1,750 | US$13.92 | US$396,250 | 0 |
| 🇭🇳 Honduras | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
Methodology
How these numbers are built
What each number is made of, so you can judge it before quoting it.
| Universe | Apartments and houses for rent and for sale in the aggregated public offer; nightly rental rates are never mixed in. |
| Window | 30 days · benchmark month 2026-10 · rebuilt 2026-10-25 |
| gross yield | Median monthly rent × 12 ÷ median sale price, same area, type and bedrooms. |
| Est. net yield | Gross yield less 30 percent of it — the site-wide cap-rate convention. |
| Confidence | Solid from 30 listings on each side; preliminary from 15. Below that, nothing is published. |
| Method version | v2 |
Notes
- Window: listings seen in the last 30 days. Both sides are asking prices of the visible offer — list prices, not closed deals — and rents are asking rents, not signed leases.
- One observation per listing: a property published by several agencies or portals counts once (same area, type, bedrooms, bathrooms, price and size, or a confirmed cross-listing pair).
- Extremes trimmed: inside every cell the tails below percentile 5 and above percentile 95 are dropped before taking the median, separately for rent, sale and rent per m².
- Publication thresholds: a median needs at least 15 listings; a yield needs 15 rents and 15 sales in the same cell. Solid means 30 or more on each side; preliminary means 15 to 29.
- Plausibility band: a yield below 3 or above 12 percent a year is withheld even with a large sample. Every case checked outside the band was two submarkets in one cell — luxury towers for rent against older buildings for sale, houses rented as offices, two districts with the same name — not a real return.
- Mixed cells (all homes, or all bedrooms) publish a blended yield: the pure apartment and house yields by bedroom count, weighted by their rents, when those cover at least 60 percent of the rents. Dividing raw medians would compare small apartments for rent with larger houses for sale. When the pure cells do not cover enough, the direct ratio of medians is shown instead and is never marked solid.
- Gross versus net: gross yield is before vacancy, property tax, maintenance and management. The estimated net figure is the site convention — gross yield less 30 percent of it — the same rule as the foreign-investment page and the AI briefings.
How to read it
- Compare areas inside one country before comparing countries: the sample biases of the visible offer mostly cancel within a country.
- A high yield in an area often means cheaper, older stock or a thin rental market; check the confidence badge and the rent band before reading it as a bargain.
- Asking rents usually close lower and take time to let; a net figure after a vacancy month and fees is the honest starting point.
- The same area name can mean two places in some countries; the administrative levels in the filter help separate them.
Aggregates of the public offer on REAL NOW: medians and confidence levels only. No individual listing is shown and sources are not named. Not investment advice.