Does it cost more than a pet-accepting rent? Estrato and city premium in 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.
An apartment that accepts pets is rented in Colombia + 0.9% against a comparable one that does not accept them (same city, estrato and rooms). The share of the offer that supports pets ranges from 7.4% on the estrato 2 to 18.3% on the estrato 1. By city, the premium goes from - 9.0% in Pereira to + 6.5% in Medellín.
Abstract: We compare 5,444 apartments for rent that accept pets with 45,523 not, in 56 city cells, estrato and rooms.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| National premium (paired) | +0.9% |
| Estratum with more pet friendly offer | 1: 18.3% |
| Strand with less | 2: 7.4% |
By estrato
| Strand | Pets premium | Announcements that accept | Offer that accepts pets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | +0.1% | 488 | 9.5% |
| 4 | -0.4% | 1,811 | 12.4% |
| 5 | +0.8% | 1,529 | 10.4% |
| 6 | +2.8% | 1,616 | 9.4% |
Matched comparison: within each city cell × strato × number of rooms with 30 ads or more on each side the ratio between medium is calculated; the premium is the average of those reasons weighted by the ads with the characteristic.
By city
| City | Premium | Announcements that accept | Cells |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medellin | +6.5% | 1,165 | 9 |
| Barranquilla | +4.9% | 310 | 7 |
| Cali | +4.0% | 123 | 3 |
| Itagüí | +2.6% | 140 | 3 |
| Beautiful | +1.1% | 124 | 2 |
| Bogotá | +0.6% | 1,512 | 12 |
| The Star | -0.3% | 123 | 3 |
| Sabaneta | -0.4% | 447 | 3 |
| Envigado | -0.7% | 728 | 4 |
| Rionegro | -5.1% | 396 | 4 |
| Pereira | -9.0% | 272 | 4 |
Only cities with at least one valid cell.
Frequently asked questions
Is it more expensive to rent with pets in Colombia? The ads that accept pets ask on average + 0.9% against comparable apartments that do not accept them.
What's the easiest way to rent with a pet? In the estrato 1, where 18.3% of the ads accept them.
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.
- 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). Does it cost more than a pet-accepting rent? Estrato and city premium in Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/alquiler-pet-friendly-prima-por-estrato-y-ciudad-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23475888 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Cuesta más un arriendo que acepta mascotas? Prima por estrato y por ciudad en Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/arriendo-pet-friendly-prima-por-estrato-y-ciudad-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/arriendo-pet-friendly-prima-por-estrato-y-ciudad-colombia-2026