Profitability of the rent in Medellín by estrato: in which he gives more to buy 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 Medellín, buying an apartment to rent it yields more in estrato 2 (8.1% gross per year, 12.4 years of rent) and less in estrato 4 (7.4%).
Abstract: We compare the price per m² of 19,592 apartments for sale with the rent per m² of 19,946 for rent in Medellín, estrato per estrato.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Estrato 2 | 8.1% |
| Estrato 3 | 7.9% |
| Estrato 4 | 7.4% |
| Estrato 5 | 7.6% |
| Estrato 6 | 7.7% |
Gross estrato performance
| Strand | Sale by m² | Rental per m² per month | Gross return | Years of rent | Announcements (sale / rental) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4.24 million pesos | 28,462 pesos | 8.1% | 12.4 | 188 / 153 |
| 3 | 5.08 million pesos | 33,333 pesos | 7.9% | 12.7 | 1,665 / 1,402 |
| 4 | 6.72 million pesos | 41,667 pesos | 7.4% | 13.4 | 3,589 / 2,961 |
| 5 | 7.40 million pesos | 46,667 pesos | 7.6% | 13.2 | 5,813 / 5,230 |
| 6 | 8.65 million pesos | 55,147 pesos | 7.7% | 13.1 | 8,337 / 10,200 |
Medium rental per m² × 12 ¬ medium price per m²; before HOA fee, taxes, vacations and financing.
Frequently asked questions
What's the most rent-making estrato in Medellín? In estrato 2: 8.1% gross annual (October of 2026).
Where does he pay the least? In estrato 4: 7.4%.
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.
- Strate performance: medium rental per m² × 12 ¬ medium price per m² of apartments of the same estrato; only estratos with 30 ads or more for sale and 30 or more for rent with area.
- Cordura: only published if all returns are between 1% and 20%.
- 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). Profitability of the rent in Medellín by estrato: in which he gives more to buy to rent (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rentabilidad-alquiler-por-estrato-medellin-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- Current data and listings: rentals in Medellín on Aptología
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23519067 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Rentabilidad del arriendo en Medellín por estrato: en cuál rinde más comprar para arrendar (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/rentabilidad-arriendo-por-estrato-medellin-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/rentabilidad-arriendo-por-estrato-medellin-2026