Pueblo Libre: prices, rental yield & Airbnb income
Pueblo Libre is one of Lima's most traditional districts — historic, quiet and walkable, with colonial plazas, museums and a strong local identity. Prices are moderate and tenants are overwhelmingly long-term locals. Who buys here: value buyers who want character and stability over flash, and solid long-term yield.
Net of predial · arbitrios · 3% vacancy · 5% income tax, with 5% purchase costs on the price base and no management fee — self-managed. No mantenimiento: in a Lima long-term let the tenant pays it, and it was never inside the advertised rent either. Vacancy is the one figure here we chose rather than measured. What comes out, line by line →
The long-term figure is a net 4.9%, and that already takes off property tax, arbitrios, rental income tax and a 3% vacancy allowance. It does not take off mantenimiento, because on a Lima long let the tenant carries that, not you. Rent runs at roughly $9.40 per m2 per month.
Net of 3% platform fee · utilities & internet (a real bill, not a % of revenue) · mantenimiento, plus predial, arbitrios and 5% income tax, on the same price base, and no management fee — self-managed. Mantenimiento sits here and not on the long-term side: the host pays it every month and no guest reimburses them. Furnishing is left out as one-time capital, which flatters this figure slightly. The gross yield above is before all of it. Empty nights need no allowance here: they sit inside the measured occupancy. What comes out, line by line →
Long-term returns cluster tightly across Lima; Airbnb returns do not. The middle listing earns 4.3%; the top quarter earns 5.3% — measured on both axes at once, each listing’s own nightly rate times its own occupancy. How the top quarter is built, and its two limits →
Airbnb shows a gross 7.0% and a net 4.3%, and the gap between those two is the honest part of the story: the Airbnb figure subtracts the platform fee, host-paid utilities and internet, income tax, mantenimiento, property tax and arbitrios. At an average nightly rate near $43 and occupancy around 55%, annual revenue lands near $8,475. The top quartile of hosts reaches roughly 5.3% net on an average nightly rate near $56, so the upside exists but it is earned, not bought.
Occupancy counts near-term nights only: a calendar read months ahead shows nights nobody has booked yet. Neither yield carries repairs, insurance or a refurbishment reserve — no yield on this site does, on either side. Why, and what it means for the figure →
Returns differ a lot by unit size. Net yields per bedroom count — after each strategy's own costs, the same model as the figures above, so the table agrees with the headline:
Net on both sides, decided the same way as the verdict above. Every cell carries its sample: n = sale/rent comps for long-term, n = priced/with a calendar week for Airbnb. Read a thin cell as a direction, not a rate. Why the samples are small, and the floor we publish above → Compare districts
More on Pueblo Libre: Airbnb income · is long-term worth it?
In Pueblo Libre, Airbnb nets 4.3% after costs. A long-term tenant nets 4.9%.
Not a hunch — we price every listed apartment in eight districts both ways, self-managed, after tax, HOA and real occupancy. One email a week: what moved, which listings the numbers actually favour, and where the consensus looks wrong.