Rental in Cartagena by neighborhood: prices for bed and breakfast, cheaper and more expensive (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.
The average rental of an apartment in Cartagena is $3,600,000 per month; an apartment of 2 rooms requests in the median $3,300,000. Among the neighborhoods with 30 ads or more, the cheapest is Pie de la Popa ($2,500,000) and the most expensive Castillogrande ($7,500,000): 3.0 times more.
Abstract: We analyze 2,581 ads of apartments for rent in 25 purified neighborhoods of Cartagena.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 5 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Medium rental (city-wide) | $3,600,000 |
| Median 1 alcoba | $3,000,000 |
| Median 2 alkobas | $3,300,000 |
| Median 3 or more alcoves | $4,800,000 |
| Ads with parking lot (purified neighborhoods) | 63.9% |
| Barrios with 15 ads or more | 25 |
| Ads in depurated neighborhoods | 2,581 |
| Average gross profitability per neighborhood (annual rental / sale price) | 6.1% |
By number of rooms
| Alcoves | Medium rental | Announcements |
|---|---|---|
| 1 alcoba | $3,000,000 | 530 |
| 2 alkobas | $3,300,000 | 1,571 |
| 3 or more | $4,800,000 | 1,237 |
From 1 to 2 alkobas, the median increases $300,000 (10.0%); from 2 to 3 or more alkobas, it increases $1,500,000 (45.5%).
Cheapest and more expensive boats
Cheapest (30 ads or more):
| Barrio | Medium rental | P25 – P75 | 2 alkobas | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pie de la Popa | $2,500,000 | $2,150,000 – $3,500,000 | $2,450,000 | 37 |
| Manzanillo | $2,540,000 | $2,200,000 – $4,500,000 | $2,500,000 | 61 |
| Torices | $2,688,000 | $2,295,750 – $3,000,000 | $2,442,000 | 100 |
| Providence | $2,875,000 | $2,138,088 – $4,000,000 | $2,600,000 | 162 |
| Serena del Mar | $3,100,000 | $2,500,000 – $3,877,492 | $3,000,000 | 351 |
| The Centre | $3,500,000 | $2,625,000 – $4,337,500 | $3,100,000 | 110 |
| The Laguito | $3,500,000 | $2,500,000 – $5,500,000 | $3,500,000 | 53 |
| Crespo | $4,000,000 | $3,090,000 – $4,700,000 | $4,200,000 | 155 |
More expensive:
| Barrio | Medium rental | P25 – P75 | 2 alkobas | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big castles | $7,500,000 | $6,000,000 – $10,000,000 | $6,000,000 | 128 |
| Manga | $4,900,000 | $3,681,800 – $6,500,000 | $4,133,000 | 249 |
| Corregiment of the Nozzle | $4,862,000 | $2,536,675 – $7,000,000 | $4,500,000 | 32 |
| Bocagrande | $4,800,000 | $3,600,000 – $7,500,000 | $4,500,000 | 363 |
| The Cabrero | $4,300,000 | $3,506,000 – $6,025,000 | $4,300,000 | 100 |
| Marbella | $4,036,000 | $3,234,000 – $5,000,000 | $4,300,000 | 160 |
| Sky Sea | $4,000,000 | $3,212,500 – $5,300,000 | $3,900,000 | 94 |
| The Nozzle | $4,000,000 | $3,148,750 – $5,500,000 | $4,200,000 | 248 |
All neighborhoods with 15 ads or more
| Barrio | Announcements | Medium rental | 1 alcoba | 2 alkobas | 3 + alkobas | With a parking lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bocagrande | 363 | $4,800,000 | $3,910,000 | $4,500,000 | $7,000,000 | 59.8% |
| Serena del Mar | 351 | $3,100,000 | $2,595,500 | $3,000,000 | $4,400,000 | 88.9% |
| Manga | 249 | $4,900,000 | $2,550,000 | $4,133,000 | $5,650,000 | 63.9% |
| The Nozzle | 248 | $4,000,000 | $3,372,000 | $4,200,000 | $6,000,000 | 70.6% |
| Providence | 162 | $2,875,000 | $2,235,000 | $2,600,000 | $5,605,000 | 52.5% |
| Marbella | 160 | $4,036,000 | $2,500,000 | $4,300,000 | $4,200,000 | 66.2% |
| Crespo | 155 | $4,000,000 | $3,100,000 | $4,200,000 | $4,500,000 | 65.8% |
| Big castles | 128 | $7,500,000 | — | $6,000,000 | $10,000,000 | 67.2% |
| The Centre | 110 | $3,500,000 | $3,263,500 | $3,100,000 | $4,500,000 | 43.6% |
| Torices | 100 | $2,688,000 | — | $2,442,000 | $2,800,000 | 25.0% |
| The Cabrero | 100 | $4,300,000 | $3,200,000 | $4,300,000 | $5,890,050 | 64.0% |
| Sky Sea | 94 | $4,000,000 | $3,000,000 | $3,900,000 | $5,100,000 | 74.5% |
| Manzanillo | 61 | $2,540,000 | $4,150,000 | $2,500,000 | — | 78.7% |
| The Laguito | 53 | $3,500,000 | $2,700,000 | $3,500,000 | $5,700,000 | 47.2% |
| Pie de la Popa | 37 | $2,500,000 | — | $2,450,000 | $2,650,000 | 54.1% |
| Corregiment of the Nozzle | 32 | $4,862,000 | — | $4,500,000 | $7,000,000 | 43.8% |
| Ternera Industria de la Bahia | 24 | $2,015,354 | — | $2,500,000 | $1,809,230 | 16.7% |
| Ternera | 23 | $2,000,000 | — | — | $1,947,491 | 65.2% |
| Pontezuela | 22 | $3,875,000 | $3,581,011 | $4,128,360 | — | 86.4% |
| Manzanillo del Mar | 20 | $2,800,000 | — | $2,700,000 | — | 70.0% |
| Daniel Lemaitre | 19 | $2,160,000 | — | $2,160,000 | — | 21.1% |
| Punta Canoa | 19 | $9,000,000 | — | — | $12,000,000 | 73.7% |
| The Camp | 18 | $1,924,472 | — | — | $1,872,000 | 27.8% |
| Papayal | 18 | $3,400,000 | — | $2,442,000 | $4,140,000 | 44.4% |
| Bayunca Correction | 15 | $5,000,000 | — | $4,750,000 | — | 60.0% |
How to use it to decide: compare your budget with the median of your number of rooms and look at the neighborhood's P25 - P75 strip: an ad below the P25 is cheap for that neighborhood, one above the P75 is expensive. It adds up to the HOA fee, which is not included. Prices per day per neighborhood in aptologia.com / prices-de-rental / carthagena,
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an apartment in Cartagena? The median rental order is $3,600,000 per month, without HOA fee, with data from 5 October of 2026.
How much is a 2 bedroom apartment for rent in Cartagena? The median is $3,300,000 per month (1,571 ads).
What is the cheapest neighborhood to rent in Cartagena? Among the neighborhoods with 30 ads or more, Pie de la Popa, with a median of $2,500,000. The most expensive is Castillogrande, with $7,500,000.
How many apartments for rent in Cartagena have a parking lot? 63.9% of the ads in the purified neighborhoods include a parking lot.
How much do you rent to buy an apartment to rent in Cartagena? The average gross return on 14 comparable neighbourhoods is 6.1% per year (12 months of rent requested on the order price), before HOA fee, predial, vacations and taxes.
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.
- Quarter ranking: neighborhoods with 30 ads or more; the complete table includes those of 15 or more. Median by a neighborhood bedroom with 5 ads or more. Gross return: 12 × median of the median rental of the requested sale price, in neighborhoods with 30 ads or more of each.
- 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). Rental in Cartagena by neighborhood: prices for bed and breakfast, cheaper and more expensive (October 2026). Aptology. https://www.aptologia.com/estudios/alquiler-en-cartagena-por-barrio-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23453711 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Arriendo en Cartagena por barrio: precios por alcobas, barrios más baratos y más caros (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/arriendo-en-cartagena-por-barrio-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/arriendo-en-cartagena-por-barrio-2026
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