How much a second bathroom is worth: price of 2 rooms with 1 and 2 bathrooms in Colombia (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.
A 2 bedroom apartment with 2 bathrooms is requested in Colombia 37.4% more expensive than one with 1 bathroom of the same estrato and city; the biggest difference is in Santa Marta (114.3%). In Bogotá it is 42.9%. The minor in Sabaneta (4.4%). Without matching by estrato the difference would be 91.8%.
Abstract: We compare 27,076 apartments with 2 rooms for sale with 1 or 2 bathrooms in 16 cities.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Colombia | +37.4% |
| Major | Santa Marta: + 114.3% |
| Minor | Sabaneta: + 4.4% |
Cities
| City | 2 bathrooms vs. 1 (same estrato) | Strate combinations | Announcements 2 / 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Marta | +114.3% | 1 | 558 / 36 |
| Itagüí | +55.2% | 1 | 160 / 33 |
| Armenia | +48.3% | 3 | 511 / 155 |
| Pereira | +46.9% | 2 | 474 / 114 |
| Bogotá | +42.9% | 5 | 3,561 / 2,068 |
| Villavicencio | +38.2% | 1 | 35 / 33 |
| Medellin | +36.3% | 3 | 1,626 / 444 |
| Cartagena | +36.0% | 3 | 1,125 / 134 |
| Manizales | +30.4% | 2 | 189 / 185 |
| Barranquilla | +29.2% | 3 | 1,098 / 178 |
| Beautiful | +25.8% | 1 | 193 / 92 |
| Bucaramanga | +24.3% | 1 | 67 / 37 |
| Cali | +24.0% | 2 | 1,303 / 212 |
| Chia | +22.2% | 2 | 436 / 105 |
| Soacha | +5.0% | 1 | 31 / 51 |
| Sabaneta | +4.4% | 2 | 1,021 / 75 |
The average price difference within each combination of city and estrato (30 ads or more in each group), averaged with ad weight. The second bathroom usually comes with more area, so the figure includes that effect.
Frequently asked questions
How much is an extra bathroom worth in an apartment? In Colombia, an apartment of 2 rooms with 2 bathrooms is requested 37.4% more expensive than one with 1.
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 much a second bathroom is worth: price of 2 rooms with 1 and 2 bathrooms in Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuanto-vale-un-bano-extra-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462191 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Cuánto vale un segundo baño: precio de apartamentos de 2 habitaciones con 1 y 2 baños en Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuanto-vale-un-bano-extra-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/cuanto-vale-un-bano-extra-ciudades-colombia-2026