Buy or rent? Years of rent worth the square meter in 324 neighborhoods of Colombia (October 2026)
Machine-assisted English version of the Spanish original by Aptología. All figures are locked to the original (numbers are copied, not re-translated); if in doubt, the Spanish original prevails.
The district of Colombia where the square meter is paid with less years of rent is Quinta Camacho (Bogotá): 8.3 years; in Manzanillo (Cartagena) it takes 22.7 years. In Bogotá, from 8.3 years (Quinta Camacho) to 16.4 (Santa Barbara Alta). In Medellín, from 9.2 years (La Candelaria) to 16.7 (La Castellana). In Barranquilla, from 9.4 years (Barranquilla) to 14.2 (Alameda del Río). In Cali, from 10.4 years (Santa Teresita) to 14.3 (Bochalema). In Cartagena, from 11.0 years (Torices) to 22.7 (Manzanillo).
Abstract: We cross the price per m² for sale and for rental of apartments in 324 neighborhoods with 30 ads or more in each operation.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Comparative barrios | 324 |
| Less years | Quinta Camacho (Bogotá): 8.3 |
| More years | Manzanillo (Cartagena): 22.7 |
| Median neighbourhood | 14.0 years |
The 30 neighborhoods with less years and the 20 with more
| Barrio | City | Sale by m² (million) | Rental per m² per month | Years of rent | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quinta Camacho | Bogotá | 6.71 | 67,105 | 8.3 | 46 / 31 |
| La Candelaria | Medellin | 4.62 | 41,742 | 9.2 | 180 / 90 |
| Barranquilla | Barranquilla | 4.66 | 41,458 | 9.4 | 83 / 48 |
| Altos del Prado | Barranquilla | 3.85 | 33,750 | 9.5 | 461 / 195 |
| La Castellana | Bogotá | 8.03 | 70,000 | 9.6 | 98 / 37 |
| High Prado | Barranquilla | 3.82 | 32,697 | 9.7 | 421 / 160 |
| The Future | Barranquilla | 3.70 | 30,769 | 10.0 | 75 / 65 |
| North Boy III | Bogotá | 8.45 | 68,367 | 10.3 | 107 / 37 |
| Riomar | Barranquilla | 5.10 | 40,952 | 10.4 | 340 / 198 |
| Villa Santos | Barranquilla | 4.75 | 37,975 | 10.4 | 379 / 195 |
| The Tabor | Barranquilla | 3.68 | 29,377 | 10.4 | 83 / 56 |
| Santa Teresita | Cali | 5.47 | 43,614 | 10.4 | 364 / 62 |
| Altamira | Barranquilla | 5.35 | 42,242 | 10.6 | 39 / 32 |
| Lake Alto | Barranquilla | 5.43 | 42,464 | 10.6 | 81 / 38 |
| San Vicente | Barranquilla | 4.23 | 32,899 | 10.7 | 112 / 84 |
| Villa Country | Barranquilla | 4.14 | 31,875 | 10.8 | 165 / 77 |
| Boy | Bogotá | 8.87 | 67,765 | 10.9 | 613 / 296 |
| Andalucia | Barranquilla | 4.27 | 32,585 | 10.9 | 110 / 50 |
| North Boy | Bogotá | 8.99 | 68,500 | 10.9 | 820 / 504 |
| Torices | Cartagena | 6.20 | 47,128 | 11.0 | 110 / 52 |
| Navarra boy | Bogotá | 7.85 | 59,630 | 11.0 | 425 / 108 |
| Medellin | Medellin | 6.59 | 50,000 | 11.0 | 75 / 71 |
| Pasadena | Bogotá | 7.77 | 58,462 | 11.1 | 204 / 59 |
| The Macarena | Bogotá | 7.88 | 59,217 | 11.1 | 35 / 48 |
| Santa Barbara Occidental | Bogotá | 7.35 | 55,180 | 11.1 | 350 / 112 |
| Rincon del Chico | Bogotá | 6.86 | 51,429 | 11.1 | 141 / 39 |
| Villa Carolina | Barranquilla | 4.65 | 34,808 | 11.1 | 134 / 74 |
| High Riomar | Barranquilla | 4.36 | 32,520 | 11.2 | 513 / 201 |
| The Boy | Bogotá | 8.86 | 65,980 | 11.2 | 184 / 98 |
| San José Sur | Pereira | 4.86 | 36,000 | 11.2 | 49 / 35 |
| Santa Barbara Alta | Bogotá | 10.47 | 53,250 | 16.4 | 144 / 63 |
| Playa Salguero | Santa Marta | 9.84 | 50,000 | 16.4 | 293 / 39 |
| Las Vegas | Envigado | 10.22 | 51,765 | 16.5 | 126 / 167 |
| Galicia | Pereira | 5.81 | 29,375 | 16.5 | 166 / 89 |
| Colorful well | Santa Marta | 10.50 | 52,273 | 16.7 | 498 / 89 |
| La Castellana | Medellin | 7.31 | 36,364 | 16.7 | 193 / 171 |
| Pantanillo | The Retreat | 8.73 | 43,333 | 16.8 | 66 / 61 |
| Fontibon | Rionegro | 6.01 | 29,630 | 16.9 | 260 / 125 |
| White Barrel | Rionegro | 8.16 | 40,230 | 16.9 | 223 / 203 |
| San Antonio de Pereira | Rionegro | 7.93 | 38,889 | 17.0 | 201 / 147 |
| Santa Ana | Rionegro | 7.56 | 36,986 | 17.0 | 92 / 141 |
| The Nozzle | Cartagena | 10.00 | 48,816 | 17.1 | 384 / 152 |
| San Nicolas | Rionegro | 8.37 | 40,000 | 17.4 | 31 / 54 |
| San Antonio | Rionegro | 7.97 | 37,879 | 17.5 | 78 / 129 |
| North | Cartagena | 8.98 | 42,370 | 17.7 | 122 / 36 |
| The Colleges | Rionegro | 7.68 | 35,566 | 18.0 | 100 / 208 |
| Water Eye | Rionegro | 7.87 | 36,184 | 18.1 | 62 / 67 |
| Centre area | Envigado | 8.55 | 36,735 | 19.4 | 92 / 31 |
| Manzanillo del Mar | Cartagena | 11.22 | 44,017 | 21.2 | 69 / 56 |
| Manzanillo | Cartagena | 11.98 | 43,923 | 22.7 | 124 / 64 |
Price per m² ¬ (monthly rental per m² × 12). See datos.csv for all neighborhoods.
Frequently asked questions
In which neighborhood of Colombia is it best to buy more to rent? By price / rent ratio, in Quinta Camacho (Bogotá): 8.3 years, a gross return of 12.0%.
How many years of rent is a square meter in Colombia? The median of 324 neighborhoods is 14.0 years.
Methodology
- Source: night events of the Aptology database (aptologia.com) of 18 October 2026: current housing ads in real estate portals of 13 countries, collected by Aptology and seen online between 11 and 18 October 2026. Court: 18 October of 2026.
- Debugging: exact duplicates (same city, area, type, price, currency, area, rooms and bathrooms) and prices outside the percentile 1 - 99 of each country, operation, currency and type are removed; the price per m² uses only ads with declared area between 12 and 2,000 m² and is also cut to P1-P99.
- What is measured: prices ordered (published), not closing prices. For rent, monthly rent without HOA fee, common expenses or condo.
- Minimum sample: each published figure is based on at least 30 ads; cells with less are omitted.
- Colombia: Prices in Colombian pesos, no currency conversion.
- Years of rent to pay for the house: The average sales price (monthly average rental × 12) between the same type of ads and the cell; it is the price / rent ratio (price-to-rent ratio) and is equivalent to 100 - gross profitability. It does not include HOA fee, taxes, vacations, financing or recovery: it is a reference to compare to purchase and rent, not an investment recommendation.
- Limitations: The coverage depends on the portals that travel Aptology in each country and is greater in large cities and in the medium-high and high segments; the area is the one that declares the announcement, unverified; the area names come from the portals.
- Privacy: only aggregates are published; no personal data, link to ads or name of advertiser is published.
- Open data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
How to quote
Pinzón Pineda, D. M. (2026). Buy or rent? Years of rent worth the square meter in 324 neighborhoods of Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/comprar-o-alquilar-por-barrio-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475912 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Comprar o arrendar? Años de arriendo que vale el metro cuadrado en 324 barrios de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/comprar-o-arrendar-por-barrio-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/comprar-o-arrendar-por-barrio-colombia-2026