Updated September 2026 · Reviewed by David Schielke, Real Estate Broker CRECI-RJ 089162/O
Every property currently available for rent in Rio de Janeiro through Oabitat is listed on this page: apartments, penthouses and houses offered on long-term residential contracts, most of them in Ipanema and the surrounding Zona Sul. These are unfurnished and furnished homes let for a year or more under a Brazilian residential lease, not holiday lets. If you are looking for a few weeks by the beach rather than a place to live, the section on rental types below explains why that is a different contract entirely.
Use the search above to filter by neighbourhood, monthly rent, size and bedrooms. Everything you need to know before you sign — the three contract types, what rent costs in each neighbourhood, the guarantee every landlord asks for and how renting works for a foreigner — is in our guide to apartments for rent in Rio de Janeiro. If you would rather buy than rent, see apartments for sale in Rio de Janeiro.
Source: FipeZAP residential rental index, June 2026. Lease term under Article 46, Lei 8.245/91.
The full guide: tenancy law, guarantees, rental yields and how letting a property out works in practice.
Read the guide →Contracts, the certidões, ITBI and registration — what a foreign buyer or tenant signs and pays.
Read the guide →Relocating, climate, schools and neighbourhoods — the practical side of moving to the city.
Read the guide →Staying under 90 days, or buying to let out short-term? A different contract and a different market.
See the listings →Renting first and buying later is the approach we suggest to most arrivals. Here is what is available.
Browse listings →Where most of our rental stock sits, and the neighbourhood foreign tenants ask for first.
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Off-market and newly listed apartments, penthouses and houses in Ipanema, Leblon, Copacabana and Zona Sul. At most one email a week.
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