The short version (edition 3): between September 15 and October 5, 2026 (20 days) we tracked every public sale listing in the Antigua area at three agencies — 313 properties on October 5. Of the 299 listings present in both captures, 5 cut their asking price (deepest −8.6%, median −4.2%) and 4 raised it; everything else held its price. All five cuts are houses, four of them at Remax Colonial. At the two biggest books, what left the market this time was priced below what stayed — the opposite of our September edition. And measured the same way in both captures, Antigua Guatemala proper sits at about $2,528/m² against $2,549 on September 15 — roughly 1.2× Ciudad Vieja, and no real change on samples this size. This report is written for the buyer’s side of the table; the full dataset is downloadable below.
The price cuts — 5 listings, median −4.2%
Every cut below is a change in the advertised asking price between our September 15 and October 5 captures. Of the five cuts we recorded, the one worth the most dollars was on an estate house in San Pedro El Alto, down $95,000. Two of the five (the Jocotenango house and the Santa Delfina house) were already listed at our May 10 capture, so both had been on the market since at least May before cutting. No two cuts landed on the same new price, so unlike September there is no sign of one property cut at two agencies.
$454,000 → $415,000 · $432/m²
$1,275,000 → $1,180,000 · $2,565/m²
$825,000 → $790,000 · $2,724/m²
$375,000 → $360,000 · $1,875/m²
$260,000 → $250,000 · $1,295/m²
One house has now cut twice. The San Lorenzo El Cubo house in Ciudad Vieja went from $270,000 to $260,000 in our September edition and from $260,000 to $250,000 in this one — the only listing in either edition to cut in back-to-back windows.
Read the Jocotenango $/m² with care. The listing reports 961.76 m² of construction, which is why it works out to only $432/m². Remax Colonial files it under Antigua Guatemala; its title places it in Jocotenango.
Two San Pedro El Alto houses, two agencies, not the same property. The Antigua Fine Homes estate (460 m² of construction on a 1,680 m² lot) and the Remax Colonial house (290 m², in an eco-residential 3.5 km from central Antigua) differ in size and price, so we read them as two properties.
The raises — 4 listings, two of them not yet built
Four listings raised their asking price. Two are homes still to be built: a 305 m² pre-construction house in San Miguel Dueñas (one of three planned residences of the same design) and a house under construction in Antigua Gardens, Alotenango — the same development where two other listings were raised in our September edition.
$675,000 → $740,000 · $2,426/m²
$285,000 → $310,000 · $1,722/m²
$720,000 → $750,000 · $1,042/m²
$385,000 → $395,000 · $1,854/m²
The Jocotenango house at Nova Antigua was raised from $680,000 to $720,000 in our September edition and to $750,000 now. Read the list as direction, not a rule: in a 20-day window, four listings is a very small sample.
What moved vs what sat
Median asking price of the listings that left each agency’s Antigua-area book in the 20 days, against what stayed and what arrived:
| Book | Gone in 20d | Still listed | Newly listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antigua Fine Homes | $408,138 (n=12) | $450,000 (n=113) | $395,000 (n=21) |
| Remax Colonial | $240,000 (n=9) | $376,058 (n=116) | $315,000 (n=5) |
| Nova Antigua | $532,000 (n=9) | $290,000 (n=57) | $417,500 (n=2) |
At the two larger books, what left the market this time was priced below what stayed — the reverse of September, when departures at both were priced above. At Nova Antigua it went the other way: its nine departures had a median of $532,000 against $290,000 for what stayed. Nine or twelve departures is far too few to call a trend; two editions pointing in opposite directions is exactly what small samples do.
Median asking price per m², by zone
Houses and apartments, asking price per m² of construction, one row per property across the three agencies, zones with at least 5 qualifying listings. Both columns use the same method, so they can be compared:
| Zone | Oct 5, 2026 | Sep 15, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Antigua Guatemala | $2,528 (n=53) | $2,549 (n=59) |
| Ciudad Vieja | $2,083 (n=21) | $2,140 (n=20) |
| San Miguel Dueñas | $1,854 (n=27) | $1,856 (n=26) |
| San Pedro Las Huertas | $1,804 (n=19) | $2,000 (n=15) |
| Alotenango | $1,644 (n=28) | $1,616 (n=25) |
| San Lucas Sacatepéquez | $1,158 (n=10) | $1,062 (n=9) |
| Jocotenango | — (fewer than 5) | $1,444 (n=5) |
Most zones moved only slightly, which at these sample sizes is noise rather than a price trend. The largest move, San Pedro Las Huertas from $2,000 to $1,804, came with four more listings in the sample (15 to 19), so it says more about which houses are listed than about repricing. San Pedro Las Huertas is an aldea of the Antigua Guatemala municipality; it gets its own row because the agencies list it by name.
Market vitals
- Turnover: 31 listings left in 20 days — 9 of Remax Colonial’s 134 (7%), 13 of Antigua Fine Homes’ 126 (10%), 9 of Nova Antigua’s 70 (13%). 28 new listings arrived.
- Antigua Fine Homes is adding fastest: 21 new listings in 20 days (about 31.5 per 30 days) against 13 departures; its Antigua-area book grew from 126 to 134.
- Nova Antigua shrank: 9 departures and 2 new listings took its book from 70 to 63. In the 39-day September window it lost only 4.
- Remax Colonial: 9 departures, 5 new listings; book from 134 to 130.
- Dual-listed properties: 14 properties are carried by two or more of the three agencies in the October 5 capture (17 on September 15).
- Next data point: the agencies are re-captured on the 1st and 15th of each month; the next edition compares against a later capture.
Method changes in this edition
- Lake Atitlán and Pacific-coast listings are now excluded by title. Some Antigua Fine Homes listings carry no location field, and a title such as a lakefront house in San Marcos used to slip into the Antigua population. From edition 3, a listing whose title places it at Lake Atitlán or on the Pacific coast is excluded. Edition 2’s “26 new listings” counted one Lake Atitlán listing; re-run under the edition-3 rule, that window reads 25 new. Its cuts, raises and departures are unchanged.
- The October 1 capture was set aside. One agency’s website changed its format, and that capture came back without sizes or locations for its listings. Rather than compare against broken rows, we re-captured on October 5 — which is why this window runs from September 15 to October 5 instead of to October 1.
How to read this honestly
“Gone” means no longer listed at the source — sold or withdrawn; sales are inscribed at the Registro General de la Propiedad finca by finca, not in a list we can match these listings against, so no one can honestly tell you which from this data. All prices are asking prices in USD, scraped directly from the agencies’ public websites on September 15 and October 5, 2026. Only sale listings in the Antigua area (Sacatepéquez) count: rentals are dropped, and 21 Antigua Fine Homes listings on the Pacific coast, at Lake Atitlán or in Chimaltenango are excluded. No listing moved in or out of the sale population without leaving the agency’s site in this window.
This report still covers the same three agencies. The other agency and portal sources in our corpus are shown in the live listings viewer.
Download the dataset: market-brief.json — edition 3: every cut, raise, median, exclusion and caveat in machine-readable form, generated by a script from the two captures. Earlier editions are archived unchanged: edition 2 (August 7 – September 15, 2026) at market-brief-edition-2-2026-09-15.json and edition 1 (May 10 – August 7, 2026) at market-brief-edition-1-2026-08-07.json. Cite any of them freely with attribution.
Previous editions
Edition 2 (August 7 – September 15, 2026, 39 days). 17 asking-price cuts (deepest −29.8%, median −7.1%) against 10 raises, 9 of them houses; four cuts were worth $180,000 to $245,000 each, including two Paseo Antigua houses down $245,000. 34 listings left (10% of Remax Colonial’s book, 12% of Antigua Fine Homes’, 6% of Nova Antigua’s) and 26 arrived — 25 under the edition-3 rule above. At the two larger books, departures were priced above what stayed: $545,000 against $440,000 at Antigua Fine Homes, $398,000 against $372,500 at Remax Colonial. 317 properties tracked on September 15, 17 of them dual-listed. Antigua Guatemala proper read $2,549/m² on September 15 against $2,523 on August 7. Of the nine listings that cut in edition 1, two were no longer listed and seven were still listed at their cut price.
Correction to our August edition (edition 1). The first edition of this report put Antigua Guatemala at $5,063/m², 2.6× its nearest neighbor. That was wrong. The figure came from a 10-listing slice of our data labelled Antigua that mixed in rentals, while the 113-listing Antigua Guatemala group in the same capture read $2,375/m². Recomputed with one method, Antigua proper is about $2,500/m² in both captures — roughly 1.2× Ciudad Vieja, not 2.6×. The first edition’s counts of cuts, raises, departures and arrivals reproduce exactly and still stand.
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