Profitability of the rent in Bogotá by neighborhood: where you pay the most to 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 Bogotá, buying an apartment to rent it yields in the typical neighborhood 6.1% gross per year: the price requested is equivalent to 16.4 years of rent. The area with the highest gross return is Chico Santa Barbara (12.0%) and the smaller El Centro (0.9%), between 197 neighborhoods with 30 ads or more for rent and sale.
Abstract: We cross the rental order and the sale price order of apartments in 197 Bogotá neighborhoods with 30 ads or more of each.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 5 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Average gross profitability between neighbourhoods (all sizes) | 6.1% |
| Average gross return 2 | 7.0% |
| Years of rent to pay the price (medium) | 16.4 |
| Quarters, comparable | 197 |
| Comparable barrios in 2 alkobas | 86 |
Barrios with higher gross return
| Barrio | Gross return | Years of rent | Medium rental | Medium selling price | Announcements (rental / sale) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara boy | 12.0% | 8.3 | $9,000,000 | $900 million | 40 / 33 |
| Santa Ana | 11.3% | 8.9 | $12,050,000 | $1.28 billion | 122 / 109 |
| North Boy Et II | 10.7% | 9.4 | $8,000,000 | $900 million | 39 / 75 |
| Country recovery | 10.1% | 9.9 | $8,000,000 | $950 million | 35 / 65 |
| North Chapinero | 9.7% | 10.4 | $3,500,000 | $435 million | 91 / 61 |
| Virrey Park | 9.5% | 10.5 | $8,700,000 | $1.10 billion | 48 / 31 |
| North Chico II | 9.3% | 10.7 | $7,400,000 | $950 million | 112 / 97 |
| New Country | 9.3% | 10.8 | $3,200,000 | $415 million | 73 / 161 |
| San Jose de Usaquen | 8.6% | 11.6 | $1,926,954 | $268 million | 88 / 132 |
| Belen | 8.3% | 12.0 | $1,700,000 | $245 million | 54 / 41 |
| Virrey Park | 8.2% | 12.2 | $7,500,000 | $1.10 billion | 112 / 63 |
| Villemar | 8.2% | 12.2 | $1,650,000 | $242 million | 50 / 35 |
| The Veracruz | 8.2% | 12.3 | $1,700,000 | $250 million | 105 / 84 |
| Rincon del Chico | 8.0% | 12.4 | $5,500,000 | $820 million | 247 / 423 |
| Lake Gaitan | 8.0% | 12.4 | $2,800,000 | $418 million | 43 / 68 |
Gross returns above 10% usually indicate that the apartments for rent and sale in that neighborhood are different (size, state or furnished); take them as a sign to review, not as an investment data.
Barrios with lower gross return
| Barrio | Gross return | Years of rent | Medium rental | Medium selling price | Announcements (rental / sale) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Centre | 0.9% | 107.8 | $1,700,000 | $2.20 billion | 50 / 51 |
| Veramonte Macana | 3.4% | 29.8 | $1,900,000 | $680 million | 88 / 193 |
| Country Hill | 3.4% | 29.5 | $2,400,000 | $850 million | 372 / 912 |
| Maria Forest | 3.6% | 27.8 | $1,800,000 | $600 million | 41 / 120 |
| Turk | 3.7% | 26.8 | $1,650,000 | $530 million | 105 / 35 |
| Lagos de Cordoba | 3.8% | 26.6 | $3,550,000 | $1.13 billion | 56 / 64 |
| San Jose de Bavaria | 3.9% | 25.8 | $2,100,000 | $650 million | 185 / 148 |
| Emaus | 4.0% | 25.2 | $4,229,404 | $1.28 billion | 72 / 41 |
| Leaflet | 4.0% | 25.0 | $2,200,000 | $660 million | 41 / 75 |
| Alameda | 4.0% | 25.0 | $1,850,000 | $555 million | 98 / 170 |
| The Plan | 4.0% | 25.0 | $2,235,000 | $670 million | 32 / 127 |
| Sears | 4.0% | 24.9 | $1,625,000 | $485 million | 30 / 42 |
| Belalcazar | 4.1% | 24.6 | $2,000,000 | $590 million | 59 / 100 |
| The North Hope | 4.1% | 24.2 | $3,200,000 | $930 million | 39 / 48 |
| La Castellana | 4.3% | 23.0 | $2,100,000 | $580 million | 237 / 359 |
Only apartments of 2 rooms (the most cost-effective 10)
Compare apartments of the same size close the figure to that of a real property.
| Barrio | Gross return 2 | Rental 2 | Sale 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Chico II | 10.7% | $8,500,000 | $950 million |
| Central Chapinero | 9.6% | $3,200,000 | $400 million |
| North Boy | 9.5% | $7,500,000 | $950 million |
| Virrey Park | 9.3% | $8,500,000 | $1.10 billion |
| Reserved Boy | 8.8% | $8,791,000 | $1.20 billion |
| Santa Bibiana | 8.6% | $6,500,000 | $903 million |
| The Nogal | 8.5% | $8,600,000 | $1.22 billion |
| Boy | 8.4% | $7,850,000 | $1.11 billion |
| The Carolina | 8.2% | $5,500,000 | $800 million |
| North Boy III | 8.2% | $5,600,000 | $820 million |
How to use it to decide: Gross profitability is an initial filter, not the gain: subtract HOA fee, predial, vacations (unrented months), commission and maintenance, which together usually eat several points. A neighborhood with high profitability but little sales or much rotation can be more risky. It's always worth the real rental of apartments equal to the one you're going to buy.
Frequently asked questions
How much does an apartment rent in Bogotá? In the typical neighborhood, 6.1% gross per year: 12 months of rent requested on the price of sale ordered, before expenses and taxes, with data of 5 October of 2026.
In which district of Bogotá is it more cost-effective to buy for rent? Santa Barbara boy, with 12.0% gross annual (medium rental $9,000,000, medium sale $900 million).
How many years of rent does an apartment in Bogotá cost? In the middle of the neighborhoods, 16.4 years of rent ordered.
Methodology
- Source: Open Aptology API (aptologia.com / data-open), which every night reviews the live ads of 26 portals and real estate. Photo of the data: 5 October of 2026.
- What is measured: price of apartments (not houses or rooms), without HOA fee. These are published prices, not closed.
- Barrios: Dried labels. The names of the town or commune, the texts of the announcement, the generic areas, the neighborhoods of another municipality and variants of the same name are excluded, so as not to count twice the same neighborhood.
- Gross (calculated) profitability: 12 × median of the rental order and median of the price of sale ordered from the same neighborhood, in% annual. Years of rent = 100 ¬ profitability. Only neighborhoods with 30 ads or more for rent and sale (20 or more in the version of 2 alcobas).
- It is not the profitability of a building: the medium-sized ones come out of different ads; do not disaccount HOA fee, predial, emptiness, commission, maintenance or taxes.
- Limitations: the same apartment may be published in more than one portal, so ad counts may include repeated ones. The neighborhoods come as each portal writes, after the cleansing.
- Open data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
How to quote
Pinzón Pineda, D. M. (2026). Profitability of the rent in Bogotá by neighborhood: where you pay the most to rent (October 2026). Aptology. https://www.aptologia.com/estudios/rentabilidad-alquiler-bogota-por-barrio-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23453748 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Rentabilidad del arriendo en Bogotá por barrio: dónde rinde más comprar para arrendar (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rentabilidad-arriendo-bogota-por-barrio-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/rentabilidad-arriendo-bogota-por-barrio-2026