How much the HOA fee weighs on the rent in Colombia, by city and estrato (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.
The rate of HOA fee in the median is 15.8% of the rental of an apartment in Colombia; it weighs more in Cúcuta (22.0%) and less in La Ceja (9.7%). In Bogotá it is 16.1%. By estrato, it ranges from 13.9% in strate 1 to 16.1% in strate 6.
Abstract: We analyze 12,969 apartments for rent that report rent and HOA fee.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Colombia (medium) | 15.8% |
| Major | Quota: 22.0% |
| Minor | The eyebrow: 9.7% |
| Bogotá | 16.1% |
By city (30 ads or more)
| City | HOA fee / rental | Announcements |
|---|---|---|
| Cucutta | 22.0% | 180 |
| Ibagué | 18.6% | 115 |
| Zipakirah | 18.2% | 70 |
| Bucaramanga | 18.0% | 276 |
| Madrid | 18.0% | 86 |
| Floridablanca | 17.9% | 265 |
| Mosquera | 17.6% | 50 |
| Cali | 17.3% | 180 |
| Santa Marta | 17.0% | 244 |
| Barranquilla | 16.7% | 1,565 |
| Piedecha | 16.6% | 35 |
| Cartagena | 16.2% | 801 |
| Chia | 16.2% | 206 |
| Bogotá | 16.1% | 6,456 |
| Manizales | 16.1% | 71 |
| Tocancipa | 15.6% | 46 |
| Puerto Colombia | 15.2% | 41 |
| Pereira | 15.2% | 878 |
| Cajicá | 14.3% | 128 |
| Armenia | 14.0% | 114 |
| Soacha | 12.4% | 61 |
| Rionegro | 12.0% | 87 |
| Sabaneta | 11.5% | 42 |
| Medellin | 11.2% | 707 |
| Envigado | 11.1% | 127 |
| The eyebrow | 9.7% | 43 |
By estrato
| Strand | HOA fee / rental | Monthly (median) | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13.9% | 440,000 pesos | 73 |
| 2 | 14.9% | 178,000 pesos | 202 |
| 3 | 14.4% | 200,000 pesos | 1,928 |
| 4 | 16.1% | 371,400 pesos | 2,883 |
| 5 | 16.1% | 565,442 pesos | 2,616 |
| 6 | 16.1% | 1,050,000 pesos | 5,160 |
Median of the reason for HOA fee and rental of each ad.
Frequently asked questions
How much is the HOA fee of an apartment for rent in Colombia? In the median, 15.8% of the monthly rental.
What is the most severe level of HOA fee? In estrato 4, with 16.1% of the rent.
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.
- Reason: monthly HOA fee and monthly rental of each ad; reasons less than 1% or more than 80% are excluded (digitisation errors).
- 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 the HOA fee weighs on the rent in Colombia, by city and estrato (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/administracion-porcentaje-del-alquiler-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460766 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Cuánto pesa la administración sobre el arriendo en Colombia, por ciudad y estrato (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/administracion-porcentaje-del-arriendo-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/administracion-porcentaje-del-arriendo-colombia-2026