How much is rent in São Paulo
Median rent in São Paulo
R$ 4,490 (≈ US$ 884)
Measured across 619,858 ads. RemRent is not live yet: these are market figures, not a catalogue of homes you can rent today.
Another 5,905 ads do not state the number of bedrooms and sit outside the bands below.
Arriving in São Paulo from another country, the hard part is rarely finding ads; it is knowing whether the price in front of you is normal. Local sites assume you already know what a fair figure looks like, what a condomínio covers and which guarantee a landlord will ask for. This page starts from the other end: here is what the market is actually asking, before anyone quotes you a number.
The figures are measured on a frozen snapshot of the active ads on nearly all of Brazil's rental platforms, counted as they were published; the collection they belong to holds more than 1.2M unique ads once repeated postings of the same home are de-duplicated. RemRent has not opened yet, so nothing here is a home you can take today. It is the price picture for São Paulo you would otherwise have to assemble by hand.
Half of the ads in São Paulo ask between R$ 2,800 and R$ 8,500 a month, so anything far outside that band is unusual rather than typical.
Rent by home type and bedrooms
| Home type | 1 bedroom | 2 bedrooms | 3+ bedrooms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartments | R$ 3,430 (≈ US$ 676)217,893 ads | R$ 4,300 (≈ US$ 847)141,683 ads | R$ 10,500 (≈ US$ 2,068)120,078 ads |
| Houses | R$ 1,400 (≈ US$ 276)15,679 ads | R$ 3,000 (≈ US$ 591)21,385 ads | R$ 9,000 (≈ US$ 1,773)68,882 ads |
| Studios | R$ 2,700 (≈ US$ 532)28,353 ads | —0 ads | —0 ads |
Districts of São Paulo
How these figures were measured
The prices on this page come from 619,858 rental ads, frozen on August 2, 2026. RemRent is not live yet, so this is market data — not a catalogue of homes you can rent today.
Every figure is the advertised rent on its own. Condomínio and IPTU are counted separately and are never folded into these numbers.