Rent per floor: rent per m² of low and high floors 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.
In Colombia an apartment on the floor 16 or more is rented in the median by 45,714 pesos a m² per month, compared to 46,250 pesos on the floor 1 (- 1.2%). Comparing floor 8 or more with floor 1 to 3 inside each city, the largest premium on the upper floor is in Manizales (+ 34.4%).
Abstract: We analyze 37,906 apartments for rent with declared floor and area.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Floor 1 or less | 46,250 pesos |
| Floors 2 and 3 | 40,000 pesos |
| Floors 4 to 6 | 42,623 pesos |
| Floors 7 to 10 | 43,077 pesos |
| Floors 11 to 15 | 44,304 pesos |
| Floor 16 or more | 45,714 pesos |
Colombia: rent per m² per floor
| Floor | Rental per m² per month | Announcements |
|---|---|---|
| Floor 1 or less | 46,250 pesos | 9,544 |
| Floors 2 and 3 | 40,000 pesos | 7,247 |
| Floors 4 to 6 | 42,623 pesos | 8,096 |
| Floors 7 to 10 | 43,077 pesos | 5,737 |
| Floors 11 to 15 | 44,304 pesos | 3,869 |
| Floor 16 or more | 45,714 pesos | 3,413 |
Median of the rent ordered per m² in each section of the floor. High buildings are often newer and more expensive, which also explains the difference.
High floor premium by city
| City | Floor 8 or more vs. floors 1 to 3 | Announcements (high / low) |
|---|---|---|
| Rionegro | -7.6% | 585 / 534 |
| Armenia | -2.7% | 178 / 50 |
| Sabaneta | +2.9% | 1,221 / 457 |
| Bogotá | +4.8% | 1,687 / 3,495 |
| Envigado | +6.1% | 1,141 / 1,812 |
| Madrid | +7.5% | 47 / 40 |
| The Star | +8.8% | 147 / 40 |
| Beautiful | +11.4% | 392 / 99 |
| Pereira | +11.7% | 431 / 522 |
| The eyebrow | +14.6% | 42 / 108 |
| Cucutta | +15.0% | 31 / 53 |
| Medellin | +15.1% | 3,161 / 7,023 |
| Itagüí | +16.1% | 239 / 118 |
| Santa Marta | +17.6% | 188 / 171 |
| Cartagena | +18.0% | 295 / 358 |
| Floridablanca | +20.4% | 71 / 30 |
| Cali | +21.8% | 280 / 385 |
| Barranquilla | +23.7% | 627 / 559 |
| Bucaramanga | +29.1% | 85 / 63 |
| Manizales | +34.4% | 73 / 72 |
Medium of the rent per m², floor 8 or more in front of floors 1 to 3 (30 ads or more in each group).
Frequently asked questions
Is it more expensive to rent on a high floor? In the country as a whole it is almost unchanged: the floor 16 or more is rented - 1.2% per m² in front of the floor 1. Within each city the floor premium 8 or more in front of the floors 1 to 3 goes from - 7.6% (Rionegro) to + 34.4% (Manizales).
What is the most expensive apartment to rent? The floor section 1 or less, with 46,250 pesos per m² per month.
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.
- 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). Rent per floor: rent per m² of low and high floors in the cities of Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/alquiler-segun-el-piso-ciudades-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23471313 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Arriendo según el piso: canon por m² de pisos bajos y altos en las ciudades de Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/arriendo-segun-el-piso-ciudades-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/arriendo-segun-el-piso-ciudades-colombia-2026