How many square meters are rented with 1.5 million pesos per month? 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 1.5 million pesos a month, some 79 m² of apartment is rented in Tocancipá, the most surrendering city of 38, and 30 m² in El Retiro. In Bogotá they reach for 31 m² and in Medellín for 30 m².
Summary: We use the average price per m² of 64,524 apartments for rent with area declared in 38 cities.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More m² | Tocantipá: 79 m² |
| Less m² | El Retiro: 30 m² |
| Bogotá | 31 m² |
| Medellin | 30 m² |
Square meters for 1.5 million pesos per month
| City | m² with 1.5 million pesos per month | Price per m² (medium) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tocancipa | 79 | 18,924 pesos | 94 |
| Soacha | 79 | 19,098 pesos | 128 |
| Jamundí | 72 | 20,690 pesos | 107 |
| Madrid | 72 | 20,833 pesos | 259 |
| Zipakirah | 69 | 21,818 pesos | 168 |
| Palmira | 68 | 22,000 pesos | 42 |
| Cucutta | 68 | 22,007 pesos | 298 |
| Piedecha | 68 | 22,222 pesos | 57 |
| Ibagué | 66 | 22,581 pesos | 249 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | 59 | 25,391 pesos | 102 |
| Mounting | 59 | 25,556 pesos | 44 |
| Villavicencio | 55 | 27,212 pesos | 74 |
| Two-broken | 53 | 28,193 pesos | 70 |
| Mosquera | 52 | 28,571 pesos | 167 |
| Marinilla | 52 | 29,091 pesos | 107 |
| Floridablanca | 51 | 29,412 pesos | 357 |
| Bucaramanga | 51 | 29,588 pesos | 416 |
| Cali | 50 | 30,000 pesos | 1,499 |
| La Calera | 48 | 31,034 pesos | 51 |
| Manizales | 48 | 31,199 pesos | 282 |
| Puerto Colombia | 47 | 31,944 pesos | 90 |
| Armenia | 47 | 32,222 pesos | 337 |
| Chia | 45 | 33,333 pesos | 489 |
| Pereira | 45 | 33,333 pesos | 1,530 |
| Beautiful | 45 | 33,333 pesos | 1,082 |
| Barranquilla | 45 | 33,654 pesos | 3,694 |
| Cajicá | 44 | 33,929 pesos | 385 |
| The eyebrow | 40 | 37,323 pesos | 354 |
| Rionegro | 40 | 37,500 pesos | 3,179 |
| The Star | 39 | 38,333 pesos | 489 |
| Itagüí | 38 | 40,000 pesos | 908 |
| Sabaneta | 37 | 41,026 pesos | 3,868 |
| Cartagena | 34 | 44,118 pesos | 2,008 |
| Santa Marta | 33 | 45,000 pesos | 674 |
| Bogotá | 31 | 48,246 pesos | 12,954 |
| Envigado | 31 | 48,864 pesos | 7,303 |
| Medellin | 30 | 49,206 pesos | 20,068 |
| The Retreat | 30 | 49,254 pesos | 541 |
1.5 million pesos per month - average price per m²; it is a reference size, not a specific ad.
Frequently asked questions
How many square meters to rent with 1.5 million pesos a month in Bogotá? Some 31 m² at average price per m² of October 2026.
Where does a budget of 1.5 million pesos a month give more? In Tocancipá: about 79 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 rented with 1.5 million pesos per month? 38 Colombian cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-alquila-1-5-millones-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23499037 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Cuántos metros cuadrados se arriendan con 1,5 millones de pesos al mes? 38 ciudades de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-arrienda-1-5-millones-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/cuantos-metros-cuadrados-arrienda-1-5-millones-ciudades-colombia-2026