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Uruguay property prices: median sale $90,000 in July 2026

Uruguay's median property sale reached $90,000 in July 2026, 12.50% above a year earlier, while August registry filings rose 9.85% to 4,838.

The facts

  • The median transacted property price reached $90,000 in July 2026, 12.50% higher than in July 2025 and 5.88% higher than in June.
  • Registry sale filings numbered 4,838 in August 2026, up 9.85% year on year and 1.26% on the month.
  • July's median rose 4.24% on the month in Montevideo and 8.33% across the Interior.
  • Montevideo accounted for 33.59% of August filings, Canelones 17.14%, Maldonado 17.01%, Rocha 4.98% and Colonia 4.61%.
  • Sale filings made up 67.11% of August registry movements and priority reservations 30.03%, the latter securing registry priority for a future deed rather than recording a completed sale.
  • The National Statistics Institute labels the bulletin July to August 2026 and draws on registry records covering homes, commercial and industrial property, reporting prices to July and filings to August.

What it means for your money

  • Entry is dearer and the market is busier. The median sale ran 12.50% above a year ago, with registry filings up 9.85%.
  • Glopra's price index for Uruguay shows a 6.2% rise in US dollar terms over twelve months, where the median rose 12.50%; an index follows comparable stock, a median follows whatever happened to sell.
  • More filings leave more completed deals to price an exit against, and Glopra puts round-trip buying costs in Uruguay near 11%, which any gain has to clear first.
  • Commercial and industrial records sit in the same registry set, so the $90,000 median is the midpoint of all property types and not a valuation of a single home.

What to watch

  • The next monthly bulletin carries August's median and September's filings, keeping the price series one month behind the activity series.
  • The statistics institute states the median moves with the characteristics of the properties sold in each period as well as with market prices, and converts amounts at the selling rate of Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay on the transaction date.

Sources: INE Uruguay https://www5.ine.gub.uy/documents/Estad%C3%ADsticasecon%C3%B3micas/HTML/IAI/Compraventa/2026/Compraventa_Agosto_2026.html; INE Uruguay https://www.gub.uy/instituto-nacional-estadistica/comunicacion/publicaciones/indicadores-actividad-inmobiliaria-iai-mercado-compraventa-agosto-2026

Market data: Uruguay · Montevideo