Price of the m² in Cartagena by estrato: apartments in front of houses (rent, 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 m² of an apartment for rent goes from 33,621 pesos per month in estrato 3 to 51,136 pesos per month in estrato 6. In estrato 3, the m² of a house is 40.5% cheaper than that of an apartment.
Abstract: We analyze 2,241 apartments and houses for rent in Cartagena with estrato and area declared.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Suitable, estrato 3 | 33,621 pesos |
| Suitable, estrato 6 | 51,136 pesos |
| House vs. suitable (estrato 3) | -40.5% |
| Announcements | 2,241 |
Price per m² per estrato and type of housing (rent)
| Strand | Apartments per m² | Houses per m² | House vs. apartment | Announcements (suitable / home) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 33,621 pesos | 20,000 pesos | -40.5% | 223 / 37 |
| 4 | 41,309 pesos | 25,533 pesos | -38.2% | 384 / 64 |
| 5 | 44,374 pesos | 32,653 pesos | -26.4% | 794 / 89 |
| 6 | 51,136 pesos | 31,522 pesos | -38.4% | 595 / 43 |
Median of the price ordered per m²; - indicates less than 30 ads.
Frequently asked questions
Is the m² of a house cheaper than that of an apartment in Cartagena? estrato 3: house - 40.5%; estrato 4: house - 38.2%; estrato 5: house - 26.4%; estrato 6: house - 38.4% (medium per m², October of 2026).
How much is the m² worth in estrato 6 in Cartagena? 51,136 pesos per month for apartments.
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.
- Cordura: only published if the medium m² of the apartments does not go down when the estrato is raised.
- 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). Price of the m² in Cartagena by estrato: apartments in front of houses (rent, October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m²-por-estrato-apartamentos-y-casas-alquiler-cartagena-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23521382 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Precio del m² en Cartagena por estrato: apartamentos frente a casas (arriendo, octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m2-por-estrato-apartamentos-y-casas-arriendo-cartagena-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/precio-m2-por-estrato-apartamentos-y-casas-arriendo-cartagena-2026