New or used apartment: price difference per m² in the cities of 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.
A new apartment (0 to 1 year) is requested in Barranquilla 28.2% more per m² than one used, the greatest difference between 32 cities; in Montería, the difference is - 8.5%. In Bogotá the new costs + 14.8% per m². In Colombia, + 13.8%.
Abstract: We compare 118,387 apartments for sale with seniority and area declared in 32 cities.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Major cousin of the new | Barranquilla: + 28.2% |
| Colombia | +13.8% |
| Cities | 32 |
Cities
| City | New vs. used (m²) | New (million / m²) | Used (million / m²) | Ads (new / used) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barranquilla | +28.2% | 5.71 | 4.46 | 430 / 6,794 |
| Floridablanca | +22.4% | 6.12 | 5.00 | 109 / 774 |
| Bucaramanga | +19.6% | 5.48 | 4.58 | 253 / 2,128 |
| Pereira | +19.6% | 6.44 | 5.38 | 382 / 3,849 |
| Manizales | +16.3% | 6.38 | 5.49 | 543 / 2,156 |
| Zipakirah | +15.7% | 4.87 | 4.21 | 63 / 696 |
| The Star | +15.7% | 7.33 | 6.34 | 132 / 421 |
| Santa Marta | +15.4% | 9.75 | 8.44 | 284 / 3,295 |
| Bogotá | +14.8% | 8.29 | 7.22 | 880 / 28,513 |
| Puerto Colombia | +14.2% | 6.34 | 5.56 | 44 / 95 |
| The eyebrow | +14.2% | 6.53 | 5.72 | 117 / 190 |
| Piedecha | +13.9% | 4.09 | 3.59 | 30 / 210 |
| Medellin | +10.3% | 8.12 | 7.36 | 3,294 / 16,796 |
| Armenia | +10.1% | 5.81 | 5.27 | 137 / 2,015 |
| Mosquera | +9.9% | 5.37 | 4.88 | 39 / 743 |
| Envigado | +8.9% | 9.02 | 8.28 | 1,188 / 4,461 |
| Ibagué | +8.6% | 4.58 | 4.21 | 59 / 1,111 |
| Sabaneta | +7.2% | 7.57 | 7.06 | 504 / 3,797 |
| The Retreat | +6.9% | 9.79 | 9.16 | 222 / 388 |
| Cajicá | +6.6% | 6.01 | 5.63 | 112 / 1,350 |
| Cali | +5.6% | 4.86 | 4.60 | 901 / 8,178 |
| Cartagena | +5.6% | 8.28 | 7.85 | 450 / 5,062 |
| Itagüí | +4.7% | 7.06 | 6.74 | 246 / 1,750 |
| Chia | +4.0% | 5.72 | 5.50 | 112 / 1,348 |
| Madrid | +3.8% | 3.74 | 3.60 | 30 / 430 |
| Rionegro | +3.2% | 7.64 | 7.40 | 632 / 2,369 |
| Jamundí | +1.4% | 3.62 | 3.57 | 96 / 351 |
| Beautiful | +1.2% | 5.52 | 5.45 | 224 / 2,059 |
| Two-broken | +0.6% | 4.65 | 4.62 | 107 / 473 |
| El Carmen de Viboral | -4.2% | 4.32 | 4.51 | 40 / 50 |
| Marinilla | -4.2% | 5.59 | 5.83 | 81 / 83 |
| Mounting | -8.5% | 3.45 | 3.77 | 52 / 206 |
New = declared age of 0 to 1 year; used = 2 years or more. Unmatched by estrato: new projects are concentrated in certain areas.
Frequently asked questions
How much more does a new apartment cost than one used in Colombia? In the national median, + 13.8% per m²; in Barranquilla, + 28.2%.
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.
- Antiquity: field
antig(only sale), reported in ranges by portals. - 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). New or used apartment: price difference per m² in the cities of Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/apartamento-nuevo-vs-usado-precio-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462189 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Apartamento nuevo o usado: diferencia de precio por m² en las ciudades de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/apartamento-nuevo-vs-usado-precio-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/apartamento-nuevo-vs-usado-precio-ciudades-colombia-2026