More expensive and cheaper rentals in Cartagena to buy apartment: 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 apartment is El Centro (13.39 million pesos / m²) and the cheapest Ternera (3.80 million pesos / m²), 3.5 times less. We compare 30 neighborhoods with at least 30 ads with area.
Abstract: We analyze 4,566 apartments for sale with area declared in 30 neighborhoods of Cartagena.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive per m² | The Centre: 13.39 million pesos |
| Cheapest per m² | Ternera: 3.80 million pesos |
| Variance | 3.5 times |
| Barrios | 30 |
Quarter ranking by price of m²
| Barrio | per m² (median) | Price (medium) | Medium area (m²) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Centre | 13.39 million pesos | 1,165 million pesos | 82 | 33 |
| Manzanillo | 12.24 million pesos | 1,050 million pesos | 87 | 31 |
| Manzanillo | 11.98 million pesos | 1,025 million pesos | 83 | 124 |
| Northern zone Manzanillo del Mar | 11.48 million pesos | 1,150 million pesos | 101 | 32 |
| Manzanillo del Mar | 11.22 million pesos | 1,020 million pesos | 83 | 69 |
| Bahia Kristal | 10.81 million pesos | 726 million pesos | 70 | 34 |
| The Morros | 10.68 million pesos | 1,020 million pesos | 105 | 31 |
| Castle Grande | 10.62 million pesos | 1,250 million pesos | 145 | 44 |
| Punta Canoa | 10.27 million pesos | 1,750 million pesos | 178 | 30 |
| Zona Norte la Noquilla | 10.22 million pesos | 1,275 million pesos | 115 | 32 |
| The Nozzle | 10.00 million pesos | 1,050 million pesos | 106 | 384 |
| Big castles | 9.74 million pesos | 1,400 million pesos | 155 | 265 |
| North | 8.98 million pesos | 825 million pesos | 104 | 122 |
| Bocagrande | 8.80 million pesos | 1,000 million pesos | 125 | 686 |
| The Laguito | 8.55 million pesos | 729 million pesos | 84 | 267 |
| The Cabrero | 8.42 million pesos | 820 million pesos | 100 | 117 |
| Cabin | 8.33 million pesos | 892 million pesos | 110 | 50 |
| Laguito | 8.18 million pesos | 774 million pesos | 99 | 32 |
| Cartagena de Indias | 8.17 million pesos | 800 million pesos | 102 | 288 |
| Sky Sea | 8.15 million pesos | 822 million pesos | 100 | 148 |
| Serena del Mar | 8.10 million pesos | 625 million pesos | 77 | 517 |
| Serena del Mar North Zone | 8.00 million pesos | 600 million pesos | 78 | 62 |
| Marbella | 6.97 million pesos | 680 million pesos | 100 | 176 |
| Crespo | 6.85 million pesos | 697 million pesos | 105 | 280 |
| Manga | 6.55 million pesos | 740 million pesos | 118 | 393 |
| Santa Lucia | 6.22 million pesos | 620 million pesos | 96 | 32 |
| Torices | 6.20 million pesos | 335 million pesos | 56 | 110 |
| Pie de la Popa | 4.01 million pesos | 370 million pesos | 92 | 102 |
| Alto Bosque | 3.89 million pesos | 320 million pesos | 88 | 35 |
| Ternera | 3.80 million pesos | 270 million pesos | 60 | 40 |
Medians; only neighborhoods with 30 ads or more with declared area.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Cartagena to buy? The Centre, with 13.39 million pesos per m² in the medium (October of 2026).
And the cheapest? Ternera, with 3.80 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 rentals in Cartagena to buy apartment: ranking per m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-mas-caros-y-baratos-cartagena-venta-m²-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Current data and listings: apartments for sale in Cartagena on Aptología
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23513618 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Barrios más caros y más baratos de Cartagena para comprar apartamento: ranking por m² (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-mas-caros-y-baratos-cartagena-venta-m2-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-18-2026/tree/main/barrios-mas-caros-y-baratos-cartagena-venta-m2-2026