How many square meters are purchased with 500 million pesos? 38 Colombian 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.
With 500 million pesos, some 147 m² of apartment is bought in Soacha, the most surrendering city of 38, and 54 m² in El Retiro. In Bogotá they reach for 69 m² and in Medellín for 67 m².
Summary: We use the average price per m² of 120,331 apartments for sale with area declared in 38 cities.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More m² | Soacha: 147 m² |
| Less m² | El Retiro: 54 m² |
| Bogotá | 69 m² |
| Medellin | 67 m² |
Square meters for 500 million pesos
| City | m² with 500 million pesos | Price per m² (medium) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soacha | 147 | 3.39 million pesos | 566 |
| Cucutta | 141 | 3.55 million pesos | 561 |
| Jamundí | 140 | 3.58 million pesos | 466 |
| Madrid | 139 | 3.61 million pesos | 475 |
| Tocancipa | 137 | 3.64 million pesos | 264 |
| Piedecha | 136 | 3.66 million pesos | 246 |
| Mounting | 134 | 3.72 million pesos | 288 |
| Palmira | 119 | 4.19 million pesos | 112 |
| Villavicencio | 119 | 4.20 million pesos | 347 |
| Ibagué | 118 | 4.24 million pesos | 1,217 |
| Zipakirah | 115 | 4.37 million pesos | 819 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | 112 | 4.48 million pesos | 90 |
| Barranquilla | 110 | 4.53 million pesos | 7,532 |
| Two-broken | 108 | 4.63 million pesos | 607 |
| Cali | 108 | 4.65 million pesos | 9,365 |
| Bucaramanga | 107 | 4.67 million pesos | 2,439 |
| Mosquera | 101 | 4.93 million pesos | 817 |
| Floridablanca | 97 | 5.18 million pesos | 919 |
| Armenia | 94 | 5.33 million pesos | 2,278 |
| Beautiful | 92 | 5.46 million pesos | 2,319 |
| Pereira | 91 | 5.50 million pesos | 4,376 |
| Chia | 90 | 5.53 million pesos | 1,507 |
| Marinilla | 88 | 5.65 million pesos | 164 |
| Manizales | 88 | 5.65 million pesos | 2,788 |
| Cajicá | 88 | 5.67 million pesos | 1,517 |
| La Calera | 86 | 5.83 million pesos | 139 |
| Puerto Colombia | 85 | 5.87 million pesos | 144 |
| The eyebrow | 84 | 5.92 million pesos | 312 |
| The Star | 78 | 6.44 million pesos | 561 |
| Itagüí | 74 | 6.77 million pesos | 2,012 |
| Sabaneta | 70 | 7.12 million pesos | 4,375 |
| Bogotá | 69 | 7.26 million pesos | 31,265 |
| Rionegro | 67 | 7.44 million pesos | 3,023 |
| Medellin | 67 | 7.50 million pesos | 20,515 |
| Cartagena | 64 | 7.86 million pesos | 5,774 |
| Envigado | 59 | 8.45 million pesos | 5,735 |
| Santa Marta | 57 | 8.72 million pesos | 3,779 |
| The Retreat | 54 | 9.32 million pesos | 618 |
500 million pesos - average price per m²; it is a reference size, not a specific announcement, before notarial expenses and taxes.
Frequently asked questions
How many square meters do I buy with 500 million pesos in Bogotá? Some 69 m² at average price per m² of October 2026.
Where does a budget of 500 million pesos give more? In Soacha: about 147 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 many square meters are purchased with 500 million pesos? 38 Colombian cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-compra-500-millones-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23499051 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Cuántos metros cuadrados se compran con 500 millones de pesos? 38 ciudades de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-compra-500-millones-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-compra-500-millones-ciudades-colombia-2026