More expensive and cheaper neighborhoods in Cartagena to buy house: ranking per m² (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 Cartagena, the neighborhood with the most expensive m² to buy house is Barcelona de Indias (6.41 million pesos / m²) and the cheapest El Bosque (2.43 million pesos / m²), 2.6 times less. We compare 8 neighborhoods with at least 30 ads with area.
Abstract: We analyze 543 houses for sale with area declared in 8 neighborhoods of Cartagena.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive per m² | Barcelona de Indias: 6.41 million pesos |
| Cheapest per m² | The Forest: 2.43 million pesos |
| Variance | 2.6 times |
| Barrios | 8 |
Quarter ranking by price of m²
| Barrio | per m² (median) | Price (medium) | Medium area (m²) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona de Indias | 6.41 million pesos | 3,250 million pesos | 450 | 46 |
| North | 5.70 million pesos | 2,500 million pesos | 455 | 36 |
| Manga | 5.43 million pesos | 1,250 million pesos | 258 | 165 |
| Crespo | 5.24 million pesos | 1,900 million pesos | 350 | 60 |
| Cartagena de Indias | 5.16 million pesos | 1,500 million pesos | 300 | 84 |
| Pie de la Popa | 4.17 million pesos | 950 million pesos | 250 | 81 |
| Torices | 3.36 million pesos | 882 million pesos | 280 | 34 |
| The Forest | 2.43 million pesos | 800 million pesos | 320 | 37 |
Medians; only neighborhoods with 30 ads or more with declared area.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Cartagena to buy? Barcelona de Indias, with 6.41 million pesos per m² in the medium (October of 2026).
And the cheapest? The Forest, with 2.43 million pesos per m².
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). More expensive and cheaper neighborhoods in Cartagena to buy house: ranking per m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-cartagena-venta-m²-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23521358 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Barrios más caros y más baratos de Cartagena para comprar casa: ranking por m² (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-cartagena-venta-m2-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-cartagena-venta-m2-2026