How much more does an extra room cost when you buy an apartment? By city and estrato 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.
In Colombia, moving from an apartment from 2 to one of 3 rooms for sale increases the price ordered + 20.9% within the same city and estrato; the greatest difference is in Bogotá (+ 33.4%) and the least in Piedecuesta (- 9.5%). From 1 to 2 rooms: + 27.8%. From 3 to 4 rooms: + 26.8%.
Abstract: We compare 117,643 apartments for sale from 1 to 4 rooms within each city and estrato.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| From 1 to 2 hab. | +27.8% |
| From 2 to 3 hab. | +20.9% |
| From 3 to 4 hab. | +26.8% |
| Major 2 → 3 | Bogotá: + 33.4% |
| Minor (2 → 3) | Piedecake: - 9.5% |
How much the price rises with each room
| Step | How much the price rises | Announcements (with more hab.) |
|---|---|---|
| From 1 to 2 rooms | +27.8% | 24,566 |
| From 2 to 3 rooms | +20.9% | 65,261 |
| From 3 to 4 rooms | +26.8% | 9,236 |
Weighted average city cells × estrato with 30 ads or more of each size.
From 2 to 3 rooms per city
| City | From 2 to 3 rooms | Announcements 3 / 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Bogotá | +33.4% | 16,584 / 7,608 |
| Barranquilla | +33.3% | 5,033 / 1,802 |
| Armenia | +28.5% | 1,265 / 759 |
| Cajicá | +27.6% | 849 / 521 |
| Bucaramanga | +23.4% | 1,502 / 356 |
| Chia | +21.6% | 595 / 585 |
| Mosquera | +21.6% | 653 / 98 |
| Manizales | +21.5% | 1,623 / 757 |
| Santa Marta | +20.9% | 1,127 / 1,367 |
| Floridablanca | +19.1% | 620 / 68 |
| Villavicencio | +19.0% | 135 / 70 |
| Cartagena | +17.4% | 2,394 / 2,315 |
| Pereira | +16.7% | 2,519 / 1,203 |
| The eyebrow | +15.1% | 106 / 88 |
| Medellin | +14.9% | 11,276 / 4,448 |
| Ibagué | +14.2% | 851 / 170 |
| Cali | +13.6% | 5,610 / 2,470 |
| The Star | +12.7% | 260 / 201 |
| Cucutta | +11.7% | 368 / 85 |
| Tocancipa | +11.6% | 108 / 34 |
| Envigado | +10.7% | 3,430 / 1,328 |
| Sabaneta | +10.1% | 2,607 / 1,314 |
| Rionegro | +9.6% | 1,141 / 1,541 |
| Zipakirah | +7.6% | 614 / 93 |
| Beautiful | +7.3% | 1,393 / 554 |
| Jamundí | +6.3% | 154 / 269 |
| Soacha | +6.1% | 344 / 82 |
| Itagüí | +5.1% | 1,276 / 456 |
| Madrid | +1.2% | 189 / 30 |
| The Retreat | +0.6% | 75 / 219 |
| Marinilla | -4.1% | 39 / 33 |
| Two-broken | -5.1% | 397 / 134 |
| Piedecha | -9.5% | 124 / 35 |
Frequently asked questions
How much better is an apartment of 3 rooms than one of 2? On average, + 20.9% in the same city and estrato (October of 2026).
Where's the extra room heavier? In Bogotá: + 33.4%.
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.
- Comparison: within each cell city × strato are compared the medium price of apartments with n and n + 1 rooms (30 ads or more on each side). It does not set the area: the extra room comes almost always with more meters, and the difference includes that effect.
- 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 more does an extra room cost when you buy an apartment? By city and estrato in Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuanto-vale-una-habitacion-extra-venta-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23481473 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Cuánto más cuesta una habitación extra al comprar apartamento? Por ciudad y estrato en Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/cuanto-vale-una-habitacion-extra-venta-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/cuanto-vale-una-habitacion-extra-venta-ciudades-colombia-2026