Housing in Cartagena: price per m², rental, rooms, estrato and HOA fee (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.
The neighborhood with the most expensive square meter of Cartagena is El Centro, with 13.39 million pesos in the medium of apartments for sale; the cheapest of the sample is Ternera, with 3.80 million pesos. An apartment of 2 rooms is rented for 3.40 million pesos a month in the medium and sold for 750 million pesos. The gross implicit return on rent is 6.7% per year. HOA fee is equivalent to 16.2% of the rent (647,000 pesos per month in the median).
Abstract: We analyze 8,161 ads of apartments in Cartagena (6,126 for sale and 2,035 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive (sale per m²) | The Centre: 13.39 million pesos |
| Cheapest (sale per m²) | Ternera: 3.80 million pesos |
| Sale per m² (medium) | 7.86 million pesos |
| Rental 2 rooms | 3.40 million pesos |
| Gross implicit return | 6.7% |
| HOA fee / rental (medium) | 16.2% |
| Announcements | 8,161 |
Barrios (30 ads or more)
| Barrio | Sale per m² (million pesos) | Monthly rental (million pesos) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Centre | 13.39 | — | 33 / — |
| Manzanillo | 12.24 | — | 31 / — |
| Manzanillo | 11.98 | 2.85 | 124 / 65 |
| Northern zone Manzanillo del Mar | 11.48 | — | 32 / — |
| Manzanillo del Mar | 11.22 | 2.70 | 69 / 56 |
| Bahia Kristal | 10.81 | — | 34 / — |
| The Morros | 10.68 | — | 31 / — |
| Castle Grande | 10.62 | — | 44 / — |
| Punta Canoa | 10.27 | — | 30 / — |
| Zona Norte la Noquilla | 10.22 | — | 32 / — |
| The Nozzle | 10.00 | 4.50 | 384 / 153 |
| Big castles | 9.74 | 7.50 | 265 / 76 |
| North | 8.98 | 3.79 | 122 / 36 |
| Bocagrande | 8.80 | 5.00 | 686 / 188 |
| The Laguito | 8.55 | — | 267 / — |
| The Cabrero | 8.42 | 4.00 | 117 / 75 |
| Cabin | 8.33 | 4.40 | 50 / 38 |
| Laguito | 8.18 | — | 32 / — |
| Cartagena de Indias | 8.17 | 3.50 | 288 / 36 |
| Sky Sea | 8.15 | 4.80 | 148 / 49 |
| Serena del Mar | 8.10 | 3.17 | 517 / 356 |
| Serena del Mar North Zone | 8.00 | — | 62 / — |
| Marbella | 6.97 | 3.80 | 176 / 100 |
| Crespo | 6.85 | 4.00 | 280 / 115 |
| Manga | 6.55 | 5.00 | 393 / 161 |
| Santa Lucia | 6.22 | — | 32 / — |
| Torices | 6.20 | 2.60 | 110 / 52 |
| Pie de la Popa | 4.01 | — | 102 / — |
| Alto Bosque | 3.89 | — | 35 / — |
| Ternera | 3.80 | — | 40 / — |
Medium apartments; - indicates less than 30 ads. The rent is monthly, without HOA fee or common costs.
Price per number of rooms
| Rooms | Sales price (medium) | Monthly rental (median) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 670 million pesos | 3.00 million pesos | 910 / 318 |
| 2 | 750 million pesos | 3.40 million pesos | 2,412 / 983 |
| 3 or more | 898 million pesos | 4.80 million pesos | 2,786 / 731 |
By estrato
| Strand | Sale by m² (million) | Monthly rental (million) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4.57 | 2.00 | 475 / 226 |
| 4 | 5.45 | 2.78 | 783 / 387 |
| 5 | 7.43 | 4.00 | 1,874 / 801 |
| 6 | 10.06 | 5.50 | 2,477 / 608 |
Medium; - indicates less than 30 ads.
Frequently asked questions
What is Cartagena's most expensive neighborhood? The Centre, with 13.39 million pesos per m² in apartments for sale (October of 2026).
Where is it cheaper to buy apartment in Cartagena? Among the neighborhoods with 30 ads or more, in Ternera: 3.80 million pesos per m².
How much does an apartment rent in Cartagena? The gross return is 6.7% per year (rent per m² × 12), before expenditure.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Cartagena? 3.40 million pesos per month in the medium (October of 2026).
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 and rental with reasons between 1% and 80%.
- 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). Housing in Cartagena: price per m², rental, rooms, estrato and HOA fee (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-cartagena-venta-alquiler-rentabilidad-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462224 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Cartagena: precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones, estrato y administración (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-cartagena-venta-arriendo-rentabilidad-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-cartagena-venta-arriendo-rentabilidad-2026
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