Price cuts and how much to negotiate in Bogotá: how many ads lower the rent or the sale price in a week (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 one week, 2.6% of the rental ads in Bogotá dropped their price, with a median decrease of 6.2%; for sale it fell 1.1%, with a median decrease of 3.6%. In addition, 52.1% of the sales listings and 38.0% of the rental ads in Metroocadrado are declared negotiable.
Abstract: we follow the price of 73,624 unique housing ads in Bogotá daily from 11 to 18 October 2026.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Rental | Sale |
|---|---|---|
| Announcements followed all week | 19,126 | 54,498 |
| They dropped the price in the week | 2.6% | 1.1% |
| Medium-range (among those who went down) | 6.2% | 3.6% |
| 25% of the lowest (or more) | 9.3% | 6.5% |
| They raised the price in the week | 0.5% | 0.5% |
| Announcements marked "negotiable" (Metroclassified) | 38.0% | 52.1% |
In Habi, which shows the previous price of its properties for sale, the cumulative median reduction is 3.9% (122 ads).
By estrato
| Operation | Strand | They're down price. | Medium-range | Negotiable | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rental | Estrato 2 | 3.4% | 8.6% | 15.0% | 626 |
| Rental | Estrato 3 | 3.0% | 6.2% | 12.0% | 4,074 |
| Rental | Estrato 4 | 3.2% | 5.9% | 17.9% | 4,924 |
| Rental | Estrato 5 | 2.7% | 6.1% | 43.8% | 2,801 |
| Rental | Estrato 6 | 1.7% | 6.4% | 57.8% | 6,532 |
| Sale | Estrato 2 | 1.0% | 4.3% | 41.1% | 3,126 |
| Sale | Estrato 3 | 1.2% | 3.5% | 40.0% | 11,502 |
| Sale | Estrato 4 | 1.6% | 3.4% | 47.7% | 11,368 |
| Sale | Estrato 5 | 1.2% | 3.7% | 60.8% | 9,738 |
| Sale | Estrato 6 | 0.7% | 3.8% | 56.6% | 17,604 |
How to use it to decide (how much to negotiate): a reduction of 6.2% for rent and 3.6% for sale is what the owners themselves are giving in a few days: it is a reasonable starting point to offer. In the estratos where more ads are declared negotiable, there is more scope. If an ad has been published for weeks, ask for more.
Frequently asked questions
How much can rent be negotiated in Bogotá? When a owner drops the price, the median reduction is 6.2%; in a single week it did 2.6% of the ads (data from 11 to 18 October of 2026).
How much can you negotiate the price of an apartment for sale in Bogotá? The median reduction observed in one week was 3.6%, and in Habi the cumulative average reduction is 3.9%; 52.1% of the sales ads in Metroocuadrado is declared negotiable.
What percentage of low price ads? In one week, 2.6% for rent and 1.1% for sale.
Methodology
- Source: live housing ads collected by the intake of Aptology in Metrocuadrado, Fincaraíz, Cienaltes, Wasi, Habi, Houm and Domus, from 11 to 18 October of 2026. Court: 18 October of 2026.
- Debugging: the same property published several times is counted only once (grouping by portal and, between portals, by price, area, rooms and coordinates). Prices and areas out of range are excluded and, for rent, HOA fee is subtracted when the portal includes it in the rental.
- What is measured: prices ordered (published), not closing prices.
- Bend: ads seen from the 11 of October whose last price is between 0.5% and 40% lower than the first. Changes that exactly amount to adding or subtracting HOA fee are discarded.
- Negotiable: the advertiser chooses in Metrocuadrado (only portal that publishes it).
- Short window: a week of follow-up; in longer windows the proportion of sales is higher.
- Limitations: are prices ordered in portals, which may differ from the final value of rental or sale. The coverage is higher in the north of Bogotá and in estratos 4 to 6, because the published offer is concentrated there. The neighborhoods and the town come from what each portal writes; when the town is missing it is assigned by the nearest neighbouring ads.
- Open data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
How to quote
Pinzón Pineda, D. M. (2026). Price cuts and how much to negotiate in Bogotá: how many ads lower the rent or the sale price in a week (October 2026). Aptology. https://www.aptologia.com/estudios/rebajas-de-precio-y-cuanto-negociar-vivienda-bogota-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23454133 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Rebajas de precio y cuánto negociar en Bogotá: cuántos avisos bajan el arriendo o el precio de venta en una semana (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rebajas-de-precio-y-cuanto-negociar-vivienda-bogota-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/rebajas-de-precio-y-cuanto-negociar-vivienda-bogota-2026