HOA fee rate in Cartagena by neighborhood: how much is paid for m² (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 most expensive HOA fee per square metre is paid in Bahia Kristal: 10,354 pesos per m² per month in the median (720,000 fee pesos). The cheapest, in Ternera, with 3,299 pesos per m². The median rate for the whole city is 740,000 pesos per month (7,303 pesos per m²).
Abstract: We analyze the rate of HOA fee of 4,891 apartments in 24 neighborhoods of Cartagena with 30 ads or more.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive per m² | Bahia Kristal: 10,354 pesos |
| Cheapest per m² | Lose: 3,299 pesos |
| Medium city price | 740,000 pesos |
| Barrios | 24 |
HOA fee by neighborhood
| Barrio | HOA fee per m² per month | Monthly rate (median) | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahia Kristal | 10,354 pesos | 720,000 pesos | 30 |
| Northern zone Manzanillo del Mar | 10,119 pesos | 1,050,000 pesos | 31 |
| Manzanillo | 9,911 pesos | 829,000 pesos | 30 |
| Manzanillo | 9,730 pesos | 763,000 pesos | 128 |
| The Nozzle | 9,028 pesos | 990,000 pesos | 333 |
| Castle Grande | 8,935 pesos | 1,290,000 pesos | 46 |
| Big castles | 8,877 pesos | 1,450,000 pesos | 231 |
| Manzanillo del Mar | 8,716 pesos | 980,000 pesos | 53 |
| Bocagrande | 8,101 pesos | 960,000 pesos | 613 |
| The Laguito | 7,878 pesos | 658,000 pesos | 220 |
| The Cabrero | 7,863 pesos | 800,000 pesos | 115 |
| Sky Sea | 7,763 pesos | 751,300 pesos | 135 |
| North | 7,511 pesos | 755,000 pesos | 122 |
| Cartagena de Indias | 7,159 pesos | 822,500 pesos | 256 |
| Serena del Mar | 7,011 pesos | 534,650 pesos | 413 |
| Cabin | 6,980 pesos | 750,000 pesos | 58 |
| Crespo | 6,800 pesos | 699,000 pesos | 224 |
| The Centre | 6,570 pesos | 528,500 pesos | 36 |
| Marbella | 6,539 pesos | 600,000 pesos | 156 |
| Serena del Mar North Zone | 6,462 pesos | 600,000 pesos | 55 |
| Manga | 6,073 pesos | 750,000 pesos | 312 |
| Torices | 5,444 pesos | 300,000 pesos | 99 |
| Pie de la Popa | 5,261 pesos | 445,000 pesos | 78 |
| Ternera | 3,299 pesos | 230,000 pesos | 31 |
Median; ordered from greater to lower HOA fee per m².
Frequently asked questions
How much is HOA fee paid in Cartagena? The median rate is 740,000 pesos per month (7,303 pesos per m²), according to October 2026 announcements.
In which quarter of Cartagena is the HOA fee more expensive? In Bahia Kristal: 10,354 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 rate in Cartagena by neighborhood: how much is paid for m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/tarifa-de-administracion-cartagena-por-barrio-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23498996 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Cuota de administración en Cartagena por barrio: cuánto se paga por m² (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuota-de-administracion-cartagena-por-barrio-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/cuota-de-administracion-cartagena-por-barrio-2026