Latin America: House Price to Income Ratio

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Nicaragua	75.74x
Colombia	38.29x
Argentina	36.34x
Peru	31.91x
Panama	28.53x
Brazil	27.64x
Uruguay	25.88x
Costa Rica	24.60x
Ecuador	17.48x

Latin America: House price to income ratio

The house price to income ratio is the ratio of the cost of a typical upscale housing unit of 100 square metres, compared to the countrys GDP per capita. Normally this ratio will be much higher in low income countries than in high income countries.

The formula is: (Price per square metre / GDP per capita)*100. The house price to income ratios published by the Global Property Guide are based on the Global Property Guides own proprietary in-house research, but we use the IMFs GDP per capita figures.

Statistics in Latin America. The entire Latin American region has weak statistics, and house prices are a particularly weak area. The only house price time-series are in Colombia and Uruguay.