House or apartment: how much is the square meter of each in the cities 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.
In 33 of 38 Colombian cities the square meter of a house for sale is cheaper than that of an apartment; the biggest difference is in Santa Marta, where the house costs 60.0% less by m². In El Carmen de Viboral, however, the house leaves 20.7% more expensive per m². Throughout the country, the house is worth 28.2% less per m².
Abstract: We compare the price per m² of 186,941 houses and apartments for sale in 38 cities with 30 ads or more of each type.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Cities with cheapest house per m² | 33 of 38 |
| Higher discount of the house | Santa Marta: 60.0% |
| Colombia | -28.2% |
Cities
| City | House vs. apartment (m²) | House (millions / m²) | Apartment (million / m²) | Announcements (home / fit.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Marta | -60.0% | 3.49 | 8.72 | 1,084 / 3,779 |
| Cartagena | -45.3% | 4.30 | 7.86 | 1,327 / 5,774 |
| Palmira | -41.5% | 2.45 | 4.19 | 357 / 112 |
| Bogotá | -35.5% | 4.69 | 7.26 | 17,756 / 31,265 |
| Puerto Colombia | -32.9% | 3.94 | 5.87 | 139 / 144 |
| Manizales | -32.0% | 3.85 | 5.65 | 2,316 / 2,788 |
| Sabaneta | -29.8% | 5.00 | 7.12 | 484 / 4,375 |
| Mounting | -29.4% | 2.62 | 3.72 | 459 / 288 |
| Villavicencio | -27.4% | 3.05 | 4.20 | 542 / 347 |
| Cali | -26.9% | 3.40 | 4.65 | 5,504 / 9,365 |
| Itagüí | -26.9% | 4.95 | 6.77 | 238 / 2,012 |
| Two-broken | -26.5% | 3.41 | 4.63 | 392 / 607 |
| Medellin | -26.2% | 5.53 | 7.50 | 5,998 / 20,515 |
| Pereira | -24.2% | 4.17 | 5.50 | 3,803 / 4,376 |
| Barranquilla | -23.6% | 3.46 | 4.53 | 3,474 / 7,532 |
| Mosquera | -22.8% | 3.80 | 4.93 | 511 / 817 |
| Beautiful | -22.7% | 4.22 | 5.46 | 329 / 2,319 |
| Ibagué | -21.8% | 3.32 | 4.24 | 608 / 1,217 |
| Soacha | -18.5% | 2.76 | 3.39 | 199 / 566 |
| Cucutta | -17.7% | 2.92 | 3.55 | 988 / 561 |
| Envigado | -16.9% | 7.02 | 8.45 | 3,416 / 5,735 |
| Armenia | -16.8% | 4.44 | 5.33 | 1,371 / 2,278 |
| The Retreat | -15.9% | 7.84 | 9.32 | 971 / 618 |
| Bucaramanga | -14.3% | 4.00 | 4.67 | 983 / 2,439 |
| The Star | -13.9% | 5.54 | 6.44 | 132 / 561 |
| Rionegro | -10.1% | 6.69 | 7.44 | 2,217 / 3,023 |
| Chia | -8.5% | 5.06 | 5.53 | 4,044 / 1,507 |
| Madrid | -8.0% | 3.32 | 3.61 | 73 / 475 |
| Floridablanca | -7.3% | 4.80 | 5.18 | 540 / 919 |
| Zipakirah | -6.5% | 4.08 | 4.37 | 203 / 819 |
| Marinilla | -3.3% | 5.46 | 5.65 | 46 / 164 |
| The eyebrow | -2.9% | 5.75 | 5.92 | 645 / 312 |
| Jamundí | -0.8% | 3.56 | 3.58 | 1,212 / 466 |
| La Calera | +3.8% | 6.05 | 5.83 | 1,221 / 139 |
| Piedecha | +5.9% | 3.88 | 3.66 | 231 / 246 |
| Cajicá | +11.7% | 6.33 | 5.67 | 2,368 / 1,517 |
| Tocancipa | +12.1% | 4.08 | 3.64 | 58 / 264 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | +20.7% | 5.40 | 4.48 | 219 / 90 |
Medians of the price ordered per m²; houses usually have more area and lot, which reduces their price per m² built.
Frequently asked questions
Is the m² of an apartment in Colombia cheaper? In 33 of 38 cities yes; in the country, 28.2% less per m².
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). House or apartment: how much is the square meter of each in the cities of Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/casa-vs-apartamento-precio-m²-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462187 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Casa o apartamento: cuánto cuesta el metro cuadrado de cada uno en las ciudades de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/casa-vs-apartamento-precio-m2-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/casa-vs-apartamento-precio-m2-ciudades-colombia-2026