Rental Aptology Index, October 2026: Medium rental of apartments in 25 Colombian cities
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.
The October 2026 rental Aptology Index marks a national medium rental of 3,420,362 pesos per month for an apartment in Colombia (average of 25 ad-weighted cities). The most expensive city is Medellín (4,600,000 pesos) and the cheapest Soacha (850,000 pesos); Bogotá marks 2,750,000 pesos.
Abstract: We use the last comparable photo of October of 25 cities with 300 ads or more (103,172 ads).
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| National index (October 2026) | 3,420,362 pesos |
| More expensive | Medellin: 4,600,000 pesos |
| Cheaper | Blow: 850,000 pesos |
| Bogotá | 2,750,000 pesos |
Cities
| City | Medium rental | P25–P75 | Announcements | Photo from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medellin | 4,600,000 pesos | 3,350,000 pesos - 6,650,000 pesos | 32,263 | 2026-10-18 |
| Envigado | 4,300,000 pesos | 3,600,000 pesos - 5,150,000 pesos | 9,797 | 2026-10-17 |
| The Retreat | 4,100,000 pesos | 3,300,000 pesos - 5,000,000 pesos | 679 | 2026-10-17 |
| Cartagena | 3,600,000 pesos | 2,500,000 pesos - 5,240,250 pesos | 2,468 | 2026-10-17 |
| Sabaneta | 3,100,000 pesos | 2,600,000 pesos - 3,500,000 pesos | 5,385 | 2026-10-18 |
| Santa Marta | 2,958,500 pesos | 2,200,000 pesos - 4,500,000 pesos | 818 | 2026-10-17 |
| Bogotá | 2,750,000 pesos | 1,700,000 pesos - 5,800,000 pesos | 28,097 | 2026-10-18 |
| Itagüí | 2,750,000 pesos | 2,300,000 pesos - 3,200,000 pesos | 1,185 | 2026-10-17 |
| Pereira | 2,700,000 pesos | 2,000,000 pesos - 3,800,000 pesos | 2,080 | 2026-10-17 |
| Rionegro | 2,600,000 pesos | 1,800,000 pesos - 3,100,000 pesos | 4,702 | 2026-10-17 |
| The Star | 2,600,000 pesos | 2,300,000 pesos - 2,850,000 pesos | 645 | 2026-10-17 |
| The eyebrow | 2,600,000 pesos | 2,049,432 pesos - 3,000,000 pesos | 451 | 2026-10-17 |
| Barranquilla | 2,561,500 pesos | 1,700,000 pesos - 3,800,000 pesos | 5,654 | 2026-10-17 |
| Floridablanca | 2,420,000 pesos | 1,800,000 pesos - 2,900,000 pesos | 433 | 2026-10-17 |
| Armenia | 2,100,000 pesos | 1,500,000 pesos - 2,792,500 pesos | 512 | 2026-10-17 |
| Beautiful | 2,000,000 pesos | 1,750,000 pesos - 2,500,000 pesos | 1,505 | 2026-10-17 |
| Bucaramanga | 2,000,000 pesos | 1,400,000 pesos - 3,000,000 pesos | 617 | 2026-10-17 |
| Cajicá | 2,000,000 pesos | 1,680,000 pesos - 2,862,500 pesos | 420 | 2026-10-17 |
| Chia | 1,754,250 pesos | 1,450,000 pesos - 2,500,000 pesos | 620 | 2026-10-17 |
| Cali | 1,750,000 pesos | 1,200,000 pesos - 3,300,000 pesos | 2,772 | 2026-10-17 |
| Manizales | 1,650,000 pesos | 1,221,635 pesos - 2,700,000 pesos | 549 | 2026-10-17 |
| Cucutta | 1,319,000 pesos | 1,000,000 pesos - 1,828,500 pesos | 524 | 2026-10-17 |
| Ibagué | 1,300,000 pesos | 987,300 pesos - 1,675,000 pesos | 359 | 2026-10-17 |
| Madrid | 1,200,000 pesos | 1,000,000 pesos - 1,257,000 pesos | 333 | 2026-10-17 |
| Soacha | 850,000 pesos | 750,000 pesos - 950,000 pesos | 304 | 2026-10-17 |
Apartments for rent, all sizes; median rental order.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Colombia on average? The October Aptology Index of 2026 provides a medium rental of 3,420,362 pesos per month.
Is it comparable to previous months? Not yet: the series of each city is only comparable from 15 October of 2026; this is the first point of the index.
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.
- Contents: table indicate _ city _ month (last comparable photo of the month per city, cities with 300 ads or more); national index = average of medium weighted by ads. It's not a trend: the series is only comparable from 15 -oct- 2026 (indicate _ series _ from).
- 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). Rental Aptology Index, October 2026: Medium rental of apartments in 25 Colombian cities. Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/indice-aptologia-del-alquiler-ciudades-colombia-octubre-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23462216 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Índice Aptología del arriendo, octubre de 2026: canon mediano de apartamentos en 25 ciudades de Colombia
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/indice-aptologia-del-arriendo-ciudades-colombia-octubre-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/indice-aptologia-del-arriendo-ciudades-colombia-octubre-2026