58 active rental listings on Encuentra24 for Zone 4, Guatemala City, scraped 2026-09-03 (refreshed weekly). 5 carry no published price.
| USD-priced listings | GTQ-priced listings | |
|---|---|---|
| Priced listings | 35 | 18 |
| Median monthly rent | $850 | Q6,000 |
| Middle half (p25–p75) | $812–$950 | Q5,595–Q6,972 |
| Minimum – maximum | $646–$2,500 | Q4,000–Q8,000 |
| Median, 1-bedroom | $798 (n=7) | Q5,780 (n=8) |
| Median, 2-bedroom | $950 (n=13) | — |
Median = the middle listing in each currency; the middle half drops the cheapest and dearest quarter. Source: encuentra24.com.
Zone 4 is the creative district — the pedestrian strip of Cuatro Grados Norte, the bars, the galleries and the coworking spaces described in our Zone 4 neighborhood guide — and its rental stock matches the character of the place. This is a market of small apartments and lofts in a handful of buildings, not of towers, houses or gated condominiums. It is also one of the few places in the capital where a renter earning dollars and a renter earning quetzales are shopping in the same few blocks.
Methodology. Every figure on this page is rendered from the live weekly data, either the block above or the same data for the neighbouring zones. It is compiled from the active Encuentra24 rental listings that name Zone 4, rebuilt weekly, with the scrape date shown inside the block. The median is the middle listing in each currency, quoted separately for dollar-priced and quetzal-priced listings because mixing them would invent a price nobody pays. The middle half drops the cheapest quarter and the dearest quarter, which is the honest way to describe a classifieds sample. Listings carrying a sale price in the monthly rent field are quarantined before anything is calculated. Nothing here is typed by hand or carried over from an older scrape.
Two currencies, and they belong to different buildings
In most of the capital, currency tells you which market you are in. Zone 10 quotes in dollars because its tenants are foreigners and executives — about 88% of its priced listings. Zone 4 leans the same way but nothing like as far: about 66% of priced listings here are in dollars, which leaves a working quetzal market underneath — 35 dollar-priced listings against 18 in quetzales.
The useful part is where that line falls. It runs between buildings, not inside them. In the current scrape, the listings naming Inara (which appears in titles as Inara, Inara Norte and Inara Cuatro Norte), Modra or Vivo 4 quote quetzales, while the listings naming Silk, 4Venezia and Edificio Séptimo quote dollars — building names taken from the listing titles themselves. Picking an address in Zone 4 therefore decides which currency you negotiate in and who you are bidding against. In the quetzal buildings, the landlord’s realistic alternative tenant is a Guatemalan professional, and that alternative is what caps the rent.
The dollar column shows the result. The median sits at $850 and the middle half runs only from $812 to $950 — a band tight enough that the twenty-fifth percentile, the median and the seventy-fifth percentile describe close to the same apartment. There is almost no dollar-priced luxury layer here to stretch the distribution. The quetzal column tells the same story on its own scale, with a median of Q6,000 inside a middle half of Q5,595 to Q6,972.
What a bedroom costs
The by-bedroom rows in the live block are the most useful part of the sample for anyone actually shopping. One-bedroom units run to a median of $798 in dollars and Q5,780 in quetzales, and the dollar two-bedroom median stands at $950. A dash in any of those rows means the current scrape held too few priced listings of that size to publish a median — which happens often in a zone this small, and is itself worth knowing before you go looking for that size here.
A three-plus-bedroom row only appears at all when at least five priced listings of that size are in the scrape, and Zone 4 does not reach that in either currency this week — so the block prints no three-plus median for this zone. Three-bedroom apartments barely register here, and houses barely appear at all. That is a supply fact rather than a price signal: the zone is dense, largely built out, and its recent construction is small-format apartment buildings.
Read the top of the range with suspicion
The dollar maximum in the live block sits far above the middle half, and nothing behind it is an ordinary Zone 4 apartment. The top of the dollar column in this scrape is houses rather than apartments — one advertised as ideal for offices, another offered for offices or as a home — and the highest of them carries a title naming Zone 16. The other titles above the middle half that name a zone at all name Zone 15 and Zone 10. Some listings filed under Zone 4 carry titles naming other zones entirely; read the title before you trust the filing.
The practical consequence: on any Zone 4 listing priced well above the middle half, verify the street address before you spend time on it. The medians and the middle-half range are the numbers to negotiate against. The maximum is a reminder that classifieds are self-reported.
Where the listings are
Zone 4 is compact enough that agents mostly skip colonia names and identify a unit by its building instead. The names appearing in this scrape’s titles include Inara (also listed as Inara Norte and Inara Cuatro Norte), Modra and Modra II, Silk, 4Venezia, Vivo 4 and Edificio Séptimo. Those are the names in the listing titles, not a ranking or a recommendation — and, as above, they sort themselves by currency.
The pattern that follows is worth understanding before you shortlist anything. Zone 4’s appeal is concentrated in a few walkable blocks, and our Zone 4 neighborhood guide is blunt about what happens outside them: the pedestrian core is lively and maintained, and two blocks in any direction the zone reverts to workshops, hardware stores and ordinary city street. Weekend nights are loud near the bars. Parking is scarce, which is exactly why so many listings make a point of the parking space. A unit a five-minute walk from the strip and a unit that is merely in the same zone are not the same product, the rent does not always distinguish them, and the compensating advantage — Zones 1, 9 and 10 all minutes away — applies to both.
Pricing tiers, anchored to the live sample
These tiers are not fixed bands. They are cut at the quartiles of the current dollar-priced sample, so they move when the sample does.
| Tier | Dollar-priced listings | What is in it |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | Below $812 | Compact one-bedroom apartments, most of them publishing a single parking space. The smallest units in the zone. |
| Mid | $812–$850 | The overlap band, where the larger one-bedroom units and the cheaper two-bedroom units meet. |
| Upper | $850–$950 | Two-bedroom apartments in the newer and boutique buildings named above. |
| Above the band | Above $950 | Thin and unreliable: houses rather than apartments, mixed home-and-office use, and listings whose titles point at a neighboring zone. Verify the address. |
Read the tiers against the by-bedroom rows in the live block rather than against a mental price: the block tells you which band the size you actually want falls into this week, and that is the only comparison that matters when you are shortlisting.
The quetzal ladder runs the same way. Below Q5,595 sit the smallest one-bedroom units; the middle of the column is where the ordinary one- and two-bedroom apartments in the quetzal buildings are quoted; and above Q6,972 you reach the largest quetzal-quoted apartments the zone offers, which is where that column simply stops. There is no quetzal luxury tier in Zone 4, because there is no luxury tier.
The two sides of the zone in two listings: an active listing on Encuentra24 offers a furnished loft quoted in quetzales, another a furnished two-bedroom in Silk quoted in dollars. Individual listings come and go faster than the weekly rebuild.
How Zone 4 compares
| Zone | Median, dollar listings | Dollar listings behind it | Median, quetzal listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zone 4 | $850 | 35 | Q6,000 |
| Zone 9 | $912 | 6 | Q5,750 |
| Zone 11 | $868 | 20 | Q6,000 |
| Zone 13 | $1,175 | 52 | Q6,600 |
| Mixco | $1,100 | 12 | Q5,500 |
| Zone 10 | $1,925 | 96 | Q8,000 |
Read the middle column together with the first one, because a low median means very little if it rests on a handful of listings. Zone 4, Zone 9 and Zone 11 all sit at the bottom of the capital’s dollar range, and in the current scrape their three medians sit close together. What separates them is the middle column: Zone 9’s dollar median rests on 6 listings and Zone 11’s on 20, against 35 in Zone 4. Compare those counts before you read the ranking: a column that thin is a signal, not a price.
That is the whole case for Zone 4 as the entry point for a renter earning dollars: not that it is the cheapest line in a table on any given week, but that it is the cheap end of the range with enough dollar-priced supply to choose from. Zone 10 and Zone 13 are a different order of price entirely.
The structural contrast is more durable than any ranking. Zone 10 is a dollar market with a quetzal remainder; Mixco is a quetzal market with a dollar remainder. Zone 4 and Zone 11 both sit at the cheap end of the dollar column in the current scrape without being the same market — compare the two currency counts for each and you are looking at two different tenant populations, one dollar-led with a quetzal minority, the other much closer to balanced. For the zone-by-zone view, the Guatemala City real estate overview sets Zone 4 against the rest, and average rent across Guatemala puts the capital against the departments. For the opposite trade in a walkable district — newer, pricier, entirely dollar-facing — see Cayalá.
Who Zone 4 is for
Good fit
- Remote workers and single professionals earning in dollars who want a central, walkable address at the bottom of the dollar range rather than the middle of it
- Anyone renting a first apartment in Guatemala City who wants to test the market before committing to a Zone 10 or Zone 14 price
- Tenants who want a compact, modern one- or two-bedroom apartment and are not buying square meters
- People who work across the city, since Zones 1, 9 and 10 are minutes away
- Renters paying in quetzales: 18 of the priced listings here are quoted in quetzales, and they cluster in identifiable buildings — read that count in the block before assuming this is a dollar zone
Bad fit
- Families needing three or more bedrooms — the supply is not here, at any price, and the live block carries no three-plus median for this zone in the current scrape
- Anyone who wants a house or a garden; houses barely appear in this zone’s listings
- Light sleepers who want to be on the pedestrian strip, which is the loud part on weekend nights
- Drivers with more than one vehicle, in a zone where a single parking space is a selling point
- Renters who read a low dollar median as more space for the money. It is not the same apartment for less; it is a smaller apartment. Larger units in Zone 14 or Zone 15 are a different product
Before signing anything, read our renting guide for Guatemala on deposits, contract length and what landlords expect from foreign tenants.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Zone 4 Guatemala City?
The live table at the top of this page carries the current medians, taken from the active Encuentra24 listings for Zone 4 and rebuilt every week. Read the dollar and quetzal columns separately: here they belong to different buildings, not to two tiers of the same building.
Why are Zone 4 listings split between dollars and quetzales?
Because Zone 4 is not a dollarized address the way Zone 10 is. It leans to dollars, but a substantial share of listings still quote in quetzales, and the line runs between buildings: Inara (also listed as Inara Norte and Inara Cuatro Norte), Modra and Vivo 4 quote quetzales in this scrape, Silk, 4Venezia and Edificio Séptimo quote dollars.
Is Zone 4 one of the cheaper zones in Guatemala City?
It sits with Zone 9 and Zone 11 at the bottom of the capital’s dollar range, and in the current scrape their three medians sit close together. The comparison table above shows all three live, with the number of dollar listings behind each median — compare those counts before you read the ranking. The reason Zone 4 is cheap matters more anyway: the sample is almost entirely small apartments and lofts.
Are Zone 4 rentals furnished?
Some are and say so in the title, but most titles in the current sample say nothing about furnishing. Confirm it, and get the inventory of what stays in the apartment written into the contract.
Does a Zone 4 apartment come with parking?
Many listings publish a parking space, because street parking is scarce around a pedestrian district. Confirm whether the space is assigned, and never assume it is included.
Why does the live table say some listings were excluded?
Classified sites in Guatemala routinely carry a sale price in the monthly rent field. Those listings are quarantined before the medians are calculated, and the live block reports how many were excluded in the current scrape — if it mentions none, none were needed that week.
Related resources
- Guatemala City real estate overview — every zone tracked here, side by side
- Renting guide for Guatemala — contracts, deposits, what to verify before signing
- Average rent across Guatemala — the capital against the departments
- Cost of renting in Zone 10 — the dollar market Zone 4 is measured against
- Cost of renting in Zone 11 — the other cheap end of the capital
- Cost of renting in Zone 13 — the airport-adjacent zone, on the same live block
- Zone 4 neighborhood guide — the street-level view of Cuatro Grados Norte
- Real estate section — buying, renting and market data for all of Guatemala
