How much it costs to rent a house in the cities of Colombia: medium rental in 29 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.
Landing a house costs in the median 2,600,000 pesos a month in Bello, the cheapest city of 29, and 12,000,000 pesos in La Calera, the most expensive. In Bogotá the median is 10,000,000 pesos. In the whole country, the house for medium rental is 278 m².
Abstract: We analyze 16,329 houses for rent in 29 cities with 30 ads or more.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Cheaper | Bello: 2,600,000 pesos |
| More expensive | Calera: 12,000,000 pesos |
| Bogotá | 10,000,000 pesos |
| Cities | 29 |
Cities from minor to major
| City | Monthly rental | Rental per m² | Medium area (m²) | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful | 2,600,000 pesos | 25,000 pesos | 95 | 54 |
| Itagüí | 2,800,000 pesos | 27,889 pesos | 108 | 82 |
| Cucutta | 2,950,000 pesos | 16,714 pesos | 189 | 174 |
| Floridablanca | 3,900,000 pesos | 21,359 pesos | 187 | 84 |
| Piedecha | 4,500,000 pesos | 20,833 pesos | 265 | 39 |
| Villavicencio | 4,500,000 pesos | 16,949 pesos | 280 | 47 |
| Mounting | 4,500,000 pesos | 14,634 pesos | 300 | 95 |
| Ibagué | 4,500,000 pesos | 19,192 pesos | 245 | 30 |
| Santa Marta | 5,000,000 pesos | 23,305 pesos | 242 | 112 |
| The Star | 5,200,000 pesos | 27,389 pesos | 178 | 45 |
| The eyebrow | 5,600,000 pesos | 29,286 pesos | 180 | 236 |
| Bucaramanga | 6,000,000 pesos | 25,000 pesos | 252 | 182 |
| Pereira | 6,460,000 pesos | 22,059 pesos | 270 | 965 |
| Sabaneta | 6,600,000 pesos | 29,524 pesos | 230 | 160 |
| Armenia | 6,700,000 pesos | 23,270 pesos | 300 | 92 |
| Cajicá | 7,000,000 pesos | 32,035 pesos | 245 | 534 |
| Manizales | 7,141,428 pesos | 25,783 pesos | 300 | 130 |
| Cartagena | 7,189,500 pesos | 28,342 pesos | 252 | 256 |
| Guarne | 7,500,000 pesos | 33,898 pesos | 250 | 75 |
| Chia | 8,000,000 pesos | 30,408 pesos | 273 | 669 |
| Barranquilla | 8,200,000 pesos | 25,000 pesos | 338 | 821 |
| Medellin | 8,500,000 pesos | 33,613 pesos | 244 | 3,728 |
| Bogotá | 10,000,000 pesos | 30,000 pesos | 330 | 2,512 |
| Cali | 10,000,000 pesos | 23,421 pesos | 370 | 581 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | 10,000,000 pesos | 29,032 pesos | 300 | 95 |
| Rionegro | 10,500,000 pesos | 36,784 pesos | 300 | 1,437 |
| The Retreat | 11,500,000 pesos | 40,625 pesos | 255 | 512 |
| Envigado | 11,800,000 pesos | 41,748 pesos | 260 | 2,132 |
| La Calera | 12,000,000 pesos | 31,250 pesos | 400 | 298 |
Median of the requested price of houses (does not include apartments or lots); rent without HOA fee.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent a house in Colombia? Between 2,600,000 pesos (Bello) and 12,000,000 pesos (La Calera) in the monthly median.
How much does it cost to rent a house in Bogotá? 10,000,000 pesos in the median.
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 it costs to rent a house in the cities of Colombia: medium rental in 29 cities (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/casas-en-alquiler-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23471269 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Cuánto cuesta arrendar una casa en las ciudades de Colombia: canon mediano en 29 ciudades (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/casas-en-arriendo-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: EXISTS aptologia/casas-en-arriendo-ciudades-colombia-2026