How large are the apartments in the cities of Colombia: medium area for sale and rent in 38 cities (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 medium apartment for sale measures 53 m² in Soacha, the smallest of 38 Colombian cities, and 114 m² in Montería, the largest. In Bogotá it measures 99 m² and 16.1% of the offer has less than 50 m². The median in the country is 87 m² for sale and 80 m² for rent.
Abstract: we measure the declared area of 188,671 apartments for sale and rent in 38 cities.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Smaller | Soacha: 53 m² |
| Bigger | Mounting: 114 m² |
| Bogotá | 99 m² |
| Colombia (sale) | 87 m² |
| Colombia (rent) | 80 m² |
Apartment area by city
| City | Medium area for sale (m²) | Less than 50 m² | More than 100 m² | Medium area for rent (m²) | Ads for sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soacha | 53 | 33.2% | 0.5% | 50 | 570 |
| Two-broken | 57 | 20.4% | 3.6% | 58 | 612 |
| Chia | 58 | 21.9% | 11.1% | 53 | 1,509 |
| Piedecha | 60 | 6.6% | 1.6% | 65 | 258 |
| Tocancipa | 60 | 7.9% | 0.0% | 59 | 265 |
| Madrid | 60 | 8.2% | 1.7% | 58 | 477 |
| Beautiful | 62 | 7.4% | 5.5% | 60 | 2,335 |
| Jamundí | 62 | 5.5% | 10.3% | 60 | 474 |
| Marinilla | 63 | 9.7% | 1.2% | 63 | 165 |
| Mosquera | 64 | 16.3% | 3.7% | 52 | 817 |
| The Star | 64 | 6.9% | 4.8% | 65 | 562 |
| Zipakirah | 65 | 5.2% | 5.1% | 60 | 822 |
| Villavicencio | 65 | 6.3% | 21.8% | 57 | 363 |
| The eyebrow | 66 | 11.9% | 8.0% | 69 | 312 |
| Rionegro | 66 | 7.6% | 12.5% | 68 | 3,043 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | 66 | 6.7% | 8.9% | 57 | 90 |
| La Calera | 68 | 13.5% | 15.6% | 78 | 141 |
| Itagüí | 68 | 2.1% | 7.7% | 68 | 2,016 |
| Cajicá | 70 | 6.4% | 11.9% | 64 | 1,521 |
| Armenia | 70 | 11.7% | 22.4% | 70 | 2,317 |
| Palmira | 71 | 7.3% | 14.5% | 55 | 124 |
| Sabaneta | 75 | 2.0% | 15.0% | 75 | 4,380 |
| Ibagué | 76 | 7.2% | 25.1% | 62 | 1,260 |
| The Retreat | 77 | 3.9% | 20.5% | 84 | 619 |
| Santa Marta | 78 | 21.3% | 30.0% | 73 | 3,915 |
| Manizales | 78 | 9.9% | 27.4% | 64 | 2,820 |
| Pereira | 80 | 6.8% | 30.6% | 85 | 4,445 |
| Cucutta | 84 | 8.7% | 37.1% | 71 | 665 |
| Floridablanca | 86 | 1.7% | 23.6% | 81 | 938 |
| Cali | 87 | 3.4% | 40.6% | 69 | 9,485 |
| Puerto Colombia | 89 | 2.0% | 38.8% | 76 | 147 |
| Bucaramanga | 92 | 3.2% | 41.2% | 80 | 2,502 |
| Envigado | 97 | 0.4% | 45.0% | 90 | 5,772 |
| Bogotá | 99 | 16.1% | 49.1% | 70 | 31,808 |
| Cartagena | 99 | 4.9% | 48.3% | 86 | 6,104 |
| Barranquilla | 101 | 2.8% | 50.4% | 82 | 7,890 |
| Medellin | 110 | 5.0% | 55.9% | 95 | 20,913 |
| Mounting | 114 | 0.9% | 63.9% | 92 | 330 |
Area declared in the listing (between 12 and 2,000 m²); medium.
Frequently asked questions
How much is an average apartment in Colombia? The median offer for sale is 87 m² and the average for rent 80 m² (October of 2026).
How big are the apartments in Bogotá? The median for sale is 99 m²; 16.1% has less than 50 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). How large are the apartments in the cities of Colombia: medium area for sale and rent in 38 cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/tamano-de-los-apartamentos-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23471241 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Qué tan grandes son los apartamentos en las ciudades de Colombia: área mediana en venta y arriendo en 38 ciudades (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/tamano-de-los-apartamentos-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: EXISTS aptologia/tamano-de-los-apartamentos-ciudades-colombia-2026