HOA fee in Cartagena according to the age of the building: new to old (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.

In Cartagena, the highest square meter HOA fee is paid in the group buildings "11 to 20 years" (7,901 pesos per m² per month in the median) and the lowest in "21 to 30 years" (6,235 pesos). Average monthly rate per strip: For starters: 808,000 pesos; 1 to 5 years: 728,500 pesos; 6 to 10 years: 750,000 pesos; 11 to 20 years: 900,000 pesos; 21 to 30 years: 667,500 pesos.

Abstract: We analyze the rate of HOA fee of 4,006 Cartagena apartments with declared seniority.

Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.

Summary

Management by age of the building

Median; stripes with less than 30 ads are omitted.

Frequently asked questions

New buildings pay for more HOA fee in Cartagena? For starters: 7,000 pesos / m²; 1 to 5 years: 7,326 pesos / m²; 6 to 10 years: 7,191 pesos / m²; 11 to 20 years: 7,901 pesos / m²; 21 to 30 years: 6,235 pesos / m² (median per m² per month).

Where is it cheaper per m²? In "21 to 30 years": 6,235 pesos per m² per month.

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.
• HOA fee: monthly rate declared in ads of sale and rental of apartments (both operations are joined because the rate is of the property, removing repeated with the same city, neighborhood, rate, area, rooms and bathrooms); rates below 30,000 or above 6 million pesos and reasons for m² outside 500 - 40,000 pesos are excluded.
• 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). HOA fee in Cartagena according to the age of the building: new to old (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/administracion-por-antiguedad-del-edificio-cartagena-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.

Sources and data

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23521394 (Zenodo)
• Original study (Spanish): Administración en Cartagena según la antigüedad del edificio: nuevos frente a viejos (octubre 2026)
• GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/administracion-por-antiguedad-del-edificio-cartagena-2026
• Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/administracion-por-antiguedad-del-edificio-cartagena-2026

More questions

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