House or apartment to rent: which gives more 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 Colombia, a house purchased for rent yields 8.1% gross per year and an apartment 8.1%; the house yields more in 8 of 28 cities with sufficient data. The main advantage of the house is in Santa Marta (8.0% against 6.2%).
Abstract: We cross-rent and sell by m² of 267,048 houses and apartments.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Casa (Colombia) | 8.1% |
| Apartment (Colombia) | 8.1% |
| Cities where the house is the most | 8 of 28 |
Gross return by city
| City | Home | Apartment | Difference (points) | Announcements (home / fit.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Marta | 8.0% | 6.2% | +1.8 | 1,194 / 4,453 |
| Manizales | 8.0% | 6.6% | +1.4 | 2,441 / 3,070 |
| Cartagena | 7.9% | 6.7% | +1.2 | 1,575 / 7,782 |
| Ibagué | 6.9% | 6.4% | +0.6 | 638 / 1,466 |
| Rionegro | 6.6% | 6.1% | +0.5 | 3,459 / 6,202 |
| Cali | 8.3% | 7.7% | +0.5 | 6,070 / 10,864 |
| Envigado | 7.1% | 6.9% | +0.2 | 5,443 / 13,038 |
| Sabaneta | 7.1% | 6.9% | +0.2 | 640 / 8,243 |
| Chia | 7.2% | 7.2% | -0.0 | 4,695 / 1,996 |
| Bucaramanga | 7.5% | 7.6% | -0.1 | 1,163 / 2,855 |
| The Retreat | 6.2% | 6.3% | -0.1 | 1,462 / 1,159 |
| La Calera | 6.2% | 6.4% | -0.2 | 1,501 / 190 |
| Beautiful | 7.1% | 7.3% | -0.2 | 379 / 3,401 |
| Barranquilla | 8.7% | 8.9% | -0.2 | 4,286 / 11,226 |
| Bogotá | 7.7% | 8.0% | -0.3 | 20,202 / 44,219 |
| Itagüí | 6.8% | 7.1% | -0.3 | 320 / 2,920 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | 6.5% | 6.8% | -0.4 | 302 / 192 |
| Cucutta | 6.9% | 7.4% | -0.6 | 1,157 / 859 |
| Medellin | 7.3% | 7.9% | -0.6 | 9,605 / 40,583 |
| Piedecha | 6.4% | 7.3% | -0.8 | 262 / 303 |
| Pereira | 6.4% | 7.3% | -0.9 | 4,683 / 5,906 |
| Armenia | 6.3% | 7.3% | -1.0 | 1,457 / 2,615 |
| Villavicencio | 6.7% | 7.8% | -1.1 | 587 / 421 |
| Cajicá | 6.1% | 7.2% | -1.1 | 2,890 / 1,902 |
| The Star | 5.9% | 7.1% | -1.2 | 174 / 1,050 |
| The eyebrow | 6.1% | 7.6% | -1.5 | 872 / 666 |
| Floridablanca | 5.3% | 6.8% | -1.5 | 621 / 1,276 |
| Mounting | 6.7% | 8.2% | -1.6 | 547 / 332 |
Gross return = medium rental per m² × 12 -mean price of sale per m², by type. Only cities with 30 ads or more in each cell.
Frequently asked questions
Does it give more rent a house or an apartment in Colombia? In the national median, the house 8.1% and the apartment 8.1% gross annual.
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 to rent: which gives more in the cities of Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rentabilidad-alquiler-casa-vs-apartamento-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23471305 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Casa o apartamento para arrendar: cuál rinde más en las ciudades de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rentabilidad-arriendo-casa-vs-apartamento-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/rentabilidad-arriendo-casa-vs-apartamento-colombia-2026