How much an apartment loses value over the years in Colombia: price per m² per age (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.
An apartment over 20 years old is requested in Colombia a 27.0% cheaper per square metre than a new one from the same city and estrato. Unmatched, the median is 7.24 million pesos per m² in new to 6.02 million pesos in those over 20 years.
Abstract: We analyze 115,498 apartments for sale with antiquity and declared area; the matched comparison uses 41 city and estrato combinations with 30 ads or more at each end.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Discount more than 20 years vs. new (paired) | 27.0% |
| New (medium) | 7.24 million pesos / m² |
| Over 20 years (median) | 6.02 million pesos / m² |
| Announcements | 115,498 |
Price per m² per age
| Antiquity | Weight per m² (median) | Announcements |
|---|---|---|
| New (0 - 1 years) | 7,242,424 | 11,907 |
| 2 to 5 years | 6,379,310 | 63,051 |
| 6 to 10 years | 6,512,393 | 12,870 |
| 11 to 20 years | 6,750,000 | 11,593 |
| Over 20 years | 6,018,519 | 16,077 |
The portals report age in ranges; it is grouped into five sections.
Frequently asked questions
How much less is an old apartment worth in Colombia? One over 20 years is asked for a 27.0% cheaper per m² than a new one in the same city and estrato.
How much is the m² of a new apartment in Colombia? 7,242,424 pesos in the medium of the October supply 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. The indicators of furnished, pets, closed set, balcony and direct ad of the owner only exist for rent and come from the portals.
- Antiquity: field
antigof the portal (only for sale), which comes in ranges (0, 1, 2 - 5, 8, 15, 25 or more years); the stretch is approximate. - 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 an apartment loses value over the years in Colombia: price per m² per age (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m²-segun-antiguedad-apartamentos-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460770 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Cuánto pierde de valor un apartamento con los años en Colombia: precio por m² según antigüedad (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m2-segun-antiguedad-apartamentos-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/precio-m2-segun-antiguedad-apartamentos-colombia-2026