With US$100,000 you are mostly buying land or a small city apartment; at US$300,000 houses and apartments outnumber lots in Guatemala City, the Antigua area, the Pacific coast and Xela; and at US$500,000 the median home in those first three markets lists 245-356 m² with 3-4 bedrooms. Those are medians from our own snapshot of 14,466 sale listings advertised on 33 sites by 391 agencies and sellers, captured on 2 November 2026. All prices are asking prices in US dollars; quetzal listings are converted at Banguat’s reference rate of Q7.64187 per dollar (1 November 2026).
TL;DR: Under US$100K: 1,181 listings, 48% of them land; the median house is 107 m², the median apartment 60 m². US$100K-300K: 6,127 listings, the biggest band, with the median Guatemala City house at 200 m² and the median apartment at 81 m². US$300K-500K: 3,038 listings, the median house 303 m² with 4 bedrooms. Xela is the cheapest market we track, Cobán and the Antigua area the most expensive by median.
How to read this page
- Bands: up to US$100,000 (from US$20,000, see below), US$100,001-300,000, and US$300,001-500,000. Each listing sits in one band only.
- Homes means houses and apartments together. Size is the built area in m² as the listing gives it; lot is the land area of land listings.
- Markets follow our listing pages: Antigua area = Sacatepéquez department; Guatemala City = Guatemala department (city zonas and municipios); Lake Atitlán = Sololá; Pacific coast = Escuintla and Santa Rosa; Xela = Quetzaltenango; Petén; Cobán = Alta Verapaz.
- Medians are shown only where at least 5 listings carry the value.
- Excluded: the 134 listings asking under US$20,000 (0.9% of the total), a tail that includes cemetery plots and rent figures posted in sale sections. They are left out of the bands, but still count in the 14,466 total, the share-of-market percentages and the market medians in the last table.
- Listings, not unique homes: the same property can appear more than once when several agencies advertise it, so read the counts as listings.
Up to US$100,000
| Market | Listings | Share of market | Houses + apts | Median home size | Median bedrooms | Median US$/m² (homes) | Land listings | Median lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala City | 727 | 6.5% | 433 (146 + 287) | 66 m² | 3 | 1,116 | 213 | 467 m² |
| Antigua area | 317 | 12.2% | 58 (42 + 16) | 120 m² | 3 | 623 | 254 | 288 m² |
| Pacific coast | 51 | 14.0% | 11 (11 + 0) | 112 m² | 3 | 686 | 38 | 750 m² |
| Xela | 48 | 37.8% | 18 (13 + 5) | 122 m² | 3 | 678 | 30 | 147 m² |
| Lake Atitlán | 21 | 14.2% | 1 | — | — | — | 19 | 522 m² |
| Cobán | 9 | 18.0% | 3 | — | — | — | 6 | 305 m² |
| Petén | 8 | 20.0% | 1 | — | — | — | 7 | 786 m² |
| All markets | 1,181 | 8.2% | 525 (216 + 309) | 76 m² | 3 | 998 | 567 | 350 m² |
What it buys: in Guatemala City, mostly an apartment (287 of the 433 homes; median 56 m², 2 bedrooms) or a house of about 100 m². Around Antigua and at the lake, the band is mostly lots: 254 of Antigua’s 317 listings and 19 of Atitlán’s 21. Xela is the one market where more than a third of everything listed sits in this band.
US$100,001 to US$300,000
| Market | Listings | Share of market | Houses + apts | Median home size | Median bedrooms | Median US$/m² (homes) | Land listings | Median lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala City | 4,988 | 44.7% | 4,139 (1,112 + 3,027) | 98 m² | 3 | 1,970 | 493 | 1,113 m² |
| Antigua area | 894 | 34.5% | 631 (445 + 186) | 176 m² | 3 | 1,093 | 257 | 699 m² |
| Pacific coast | 125 | 34.4% | 80 (52 + 28) | 169 m² | 3 | 1,098 | 40 | 2,284 m² |
| Xela | 51 | 40.2% | 40 (29 + 11) | 185 m² | 4 | 896 | 9 | 318 m² |
| Lake Atitlán | 47 | 31.8% | 19 (15 + 4) | 155 m² | 2 | 1,435 | 26 | 2,100 m² |
| Petén | 13 | 32.5% | 6 | — | 3 | — | 5 | — |
| Cobán | 9 | 18.0% | 5 | 200 m² | 4 | 641 | 3 | — |
| All markets | 6,127 | 42.4% | 4,920 (1,663 + 3,257) | 108 m² | 3 | 1,767 | 833 | 1,058 m² |
What it buys: this is the biggest of the four bands (counting listings above US$500,000) in Guatemala City, the Antigua area, the Pacific coast and Xela; at Lake Atitlán, Petén and Cobán more listings ask above US$500,000, and at the lake most listings in this band are land (26 of 47). In Guatemala City the split matters: the median apartment is 81 m² with 2 bedrooms, the median house 200 m² with 3. In the Antigua area the median house lists 184 m² and the median apartment 154 m², both with 3 bedrooms, at a median of US$1,093 per m², a little over half Guatemala City’s US$1,970. Lake Atitlán homes are smaller and dearer per m² than Antigua’s in this band (155 m², US$1,435/m²).
US$300,001 to US$500,000
| Market | Listings | Share of market | Houses + apts | Median home size | Median bedrooms | Median US$/m² (homes) | Land listings | Median lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala City | 2,328 | 20.9% | 1,851 (904 + 947) | 250 m² | 3 | 1,537 | 271 | 1,745 m² |
| Antigua area | 586 | 22.6% | 464 (373 + 91) | 245 m² | 3 | 1,578 | 116 | 1,250 m² |
| Pacific coast | 73 | 20.1% | 53 (41 + 12) | 356 m² | 4 | 1,107 | 18 | 7,581 m² |
| Lake Atitlán | 31 | 20.9% | 23 (17 + 6) | 287 m² | 2 | 1,220 | 5 | — |
| Xela | 11 | 8.7% | 8 (5 + 3) | 252 m² | 4 | 1,302 | 3 | — |
| Cobán | 6 | 12.0% | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 4,000 m² |
| Petén | 3 | 7.5% | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| All markets | 3,038 | 21.0% | 2,399 (1,340 + 1,059) | 250 m² | 3 | 1,541 | 419 | 1,833 m² |
What it buys: the median Guatemala City house in this band lists 326 m² with 4 bedrooms and the median apartment 165 m² with 3. On the Pacific coast the median home is 356 m² with 4 bedrooms. In the Antigua area the median home is 245 m² with 3 bedrooms, and 772 more Antigua-area listings ask above US$500,000.
Above US$500,000 and the market medians
| Market | All listings | Above US$500,000 | Median asking price, all listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala City | 11,149 | 3,027 | US$290,132 |
| Antigua area | 2,589 | 772 | US$325,000 |
| Pacific coast | 363 | 85 | US$275,300 |
| Lake Atitlán | 148 | 49 | US$322,500 |
| Xela | 127 | 13 | US$127,587 |
| Cobán | 50 | 25 | US$509,002 |
| Petén | 40 | 15 | US$246,243 |
| All markets | 14,466 | 3,986 | US$295,000 |
Source for every table: our listings dataset, snapshot generated 2 November 2026 (05:12 UTC), computed by property type and price band. Petén, Cobán and Lake Atitlán have small samples; read their rows as pointers.
Before you budget
- Asking is not selling. Every figure here is an advertised asking price, and asking prices can be cut while a property is on the market.
- Add the closing costs. They come on top of the price; our closing costs page works them out from the legal fee scales.
- Coast and lake land has limits for foreigners. Read can foreigners buy property in Guatemala before you shortlist a beach or lakeshore lot.
- Then follow the process: our step-by-step buying guide.
Browse the listings behind these numbers
- Antigua Guatemala listings
- Guatemala City listings by zona
- Lake Atitlán listings
- Pacific coast beach houses and lots
- Quetzaltenango (Xela) listings
- Cobán and Alta Verapaz listings
How we capture and deduplicate the listings is on our methodology page.
Sources
- Living in Guatemala listings dataset (website/data/re_listings.json), snapshot generated 2 November 2026 05:12 UTC: 14,466 sale listings from 33 sites and 391 agencies and sellers, each linked to its seller’s own listing; read 4 November 2026
- Banguat reference exchange rate, Q7.64187 per US dollar for 1 November 2026, as recorded in the dataset (Banguat web service)
