Housing in Santa Marta: 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 Santa Marta is Pozos Colorado, with 12.35 million pesos in the medium of apartments for sale; the cheapest of the sample is Garden, with 4.31 million pesos. An apartment of 2 rooms is rented for 3.50 million pesos a month in the medium and sold for 700 million pesos. The gross implicit return on rent is 6.2% per year. HOA fee is equivalent to 17.0% of the rent (553,000 pesos per month in the median).
Abstract: We analyze 4,606 ads of apartments in Santa Marta (3,920 for sale and 686 for rent).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive (sale per m²) | Well Colorado: 12.35 million pesos |
| Cheapest (sale per m²) | Garden: 4.31 million pesos |
| Sale per m² (medium) | 8.72 million pesos |
| Rental 2 rooms | 3.50 million pesos |
| Gross implicit return | 6.2% |
| HOA fee / rental (medium) | 17.0% |
| Announcements | 4,606 |
Barrios (30 ads or more)
| Barrio | Sale per m² (million pesos) | Monthly rental (million pesos) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Well Colorado | 12.35 | — | 39 / — |
| Beautiful Horizon | 10.67 | 4.50 | 439 / 73 |
| Beautiful view | 10.50 | — | 36 / — |
| Colorful well | 10.50 | 3.00 | 498 / 89 |
| Santa Marta | 10.06 | — | 30 / — |
| Playa Salguero | 9.84 | 3.50 | 293 / 39 |
| Ub Salguero | 9.69 | — | 101 / — |
| Urbanization Salguero | 9.62 | 3.48 | 157 / 34 |
| Don Jaca | 9.33 | — | 87 / — |
| South Roller | 7.59 | 3.50 | 252 / 49 |
| Bellavista | 7.55 | — | 106 / — |
| Centre | 6.36 | — | 54 / — |
| Reserved Shoulder | 6.04 | — | 53 / — |
| The Rodadero | 6.03 | — | 55 / — |
| Rolling | 5.95 | 2.40 | 405 / 49 |
| The Prado | 5.46 | — | 36 / — |
| Bavaria | 4.43 | — | 141 / — |
| Garden | 4.31 | — | 30 / — |
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 | 450 million pesos | 2.60 million pesos | 1,088 / 219 |
| 2 | 700 million pesos | 3.50 million pesos | 1,409 / 268 |
| 3 or more | 760 million pesos | 4.17 million pesos | 1,410 / 192 |
By estrato
| Strand | Sale by m² (million) | Monthly rental (million) | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4.65 | 1.70 | 216 / 66 |
| 4 | 6.14 | 2.42 | 489 / 132 |
| 5 | 8.11 | 2.80 | 710 / 113 |
| 6 | 9.53 | 3.95 | 2,243 / 365 |
Medium; - indicates less than 30 ads.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Santa Marta? Well Colorado, with 12.35 million pesos per m² in apartments for sale (October of 2026).
Where is it cheaper to buy apartment in Santa Marta? Among the neighborhoods with 30 ads or more, in Garden: 4.31 million pesos per m².
How much does an apartment rent in Santa Marta? The gross return is 6.2% per year (rent per m² × 12), before expenditure.
How much does it cost to rent a 2 room apartment in Santa Marta? 3.50 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 Santa Marta: price per m², rental, rooms, estrato and HOA fee (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-santa-marta-venta-alquiler-rentabilidad-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462234 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Vivienda en Santa Marta: precio por m², arriendo, habitaciones, estrato y administración (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/vivienda-santa-marta-venta-arriendo-rentabilidad-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/vivienda-santa-marta-venta-arriendo-rentabilidad-2026
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