Housing in Medellín: 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 municipality with the most expensive square meter of Medellín is Santa Elena, with 10.43 million pesos in the medium of apartments for sale; the cheapest in the sample is Aranjuez, with 4.38 million pesos. An apartment of 2 rooms is rented for 4.20 million pesos a month in the medium and sold for 720 million pesos. The gross implicit return on rent is 7.9% per year. HOA fee is equivalent to 11.2% of the rent (700,000 pesos per month in the median).
Abstract: We analyze 41,420 ads of apartments in Medellín (20,940 for sale and 20,480 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive (sale per m²) | Saint Helena: 10.43 million pesos |
| Cheapest (sale per m²) | Aranjuez: 4.38 million pesos |
| Sale per m² (medium) | 7.50 million pesos |
| Rental 2 rooms | 4.20 million pesos |
| Gross implicit return | 7.9% |
| HOA fee / rental (medium) | 11.2% |
| Announcements | 41,420 |
Commune (30 ads or more)
| Commune | Sale per m² (million pesos) | Monthly rental (million pesos) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Helena | 10.43 | 4.35 | 362 / 315 |
| The village | 8.43 | 6.00 | 7,478 / 9,835 |
| Santa Cruz | 7.96 | 4.60 | 89 / 70 |
| Guayabal | 7.50 | 3.25 | 182 / 184 |
| Bethlehem | 7.01 | 3.20 | 1,181 / 898 |
| Laurels | 6.73 | 3.90 | 3,006 / 2,337 |
| The Americas | 6.20 | 2.70 | 1,045 / 886 |
| Robledo | 5.36 | 2.20 | 512 / 464 |
| San Javier | 5.11 | 2.20 | 97 / 67 |
| Buenos Aires | 5.00 | 1.73 | 215 / 166 |
| San Antonio de Prado | 4.90 | 1.50 | 130 / 78 |
| La Candelaria | 4.89 | 2.60 | 688 / 493 |
| Villa Hermosa | 4.45 | 1.80 | 90 / 49 |
| Castile | 4.45 | — | 44 / — |
| Aranjuez | 4.38 | 1.60 | 49 / 33 |
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 | 630 million pesos | 3.85 million pesos | 1,137 / 1,849 |
| 2 | 720 million pesos | 4.20 million pesos | 4,659 / 6,601 |
| 3 or more | 890 million pesos | 5.50 million pesos | 15,088 / 11,945 |
By estrato
| Strand | Sale by m² (million) | Monthly rental (million) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.81 | — | 40 / — |
| 2 | 4.24 | 1.45 | 188 / 158 |
| 3 | 5.08 | 2.00 | 1,665 / 1,432 |
| 4 | 6.72 | 3.00 | 3,589 / 3,024 |
| 5 | 7.40 | 4.30 | 5,813 / 5,324 |
| 6 | 8.65 | 6.40 | 8,337 / 10,414 |
Medium; - indicates less than 30 ads.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive commune in Medellín? St. Helena, with 10.43 million pesos per m² in apartments for sale (October of 2026).
Where is it cheaper to buy apartment in Medellín? Among the communes with 30 ads or more, in Aranjuez: 4.38 million pesos per m².
How much does an apartment rent in Medellín? The gross return is 7.9% per year (rent per m² × 12), before expenditure.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Medellín? 4.20 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%.
- Comunas: crossing of the neighborhood of the ad with the barrio-comuna table of Aptología (co _ barrio _ loco). The St. Helena correction includes sectors such as Las Palmas, El Tesoro and Mirador del Poblado, which explains its high price. Some neighborhood names are repeated in several communes or used with little precision in the ads, so the communes with few ads (such as Santa Cruz) should be read with caution.
- 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 Medellín: price per m², rental, rooms, estrato and HOA fee (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-medellin-por-comuna-venta-alquiler-estrato-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Current data and listings: rentals in Medellín on Aptología
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462218 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Medellín: precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones, estrato y administración (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-medellin-por-comuna-venta-arriendo-estrato-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-medellin-por-comuna-venta-arriendo-estrato-2026