Cheapest and cheaper bars from Manizales to buy house: ranking per m² (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 Manizales, the neighborhood with the most expensive m² to buy house is Alhambra (6.38 million pesos / m²) and the cheapest El Bosque (2.50 million pesos / m²), 2.6 times less. We compare 14 neighborhoods with at least 30 ads with area.
Abstract: We analyze 820 houses for sale with declared area in 14 Manizales neighborhoods.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| More expensive per m² | Alhambra: 6.38 million pesos |
| Cheapest per m² | The Forest: 2.50 million pesos |
| Variance | 2.6 times |
| Barrios | 14 |
Quarter ranking by price of m²
| Barrio | per m² (median) | Price (medium) | Medium area (m²) | Ads with area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alhambra | 6.38 million pesos | 1,850 million pesos | 380 | 39 |
| The Tree | 6.36 million pesos | 2,500 million pesos | 350 | 73 |
| San Marcel | 6.00 million pesos | 780 million pesos | 130 | 51 |
| San Bernardo del Viento | 5.38 million pesos | 1,800 million pesos | 328 | 50 |
| Palermo | 4.60 million pesos | 1,200 million pesos | 240 | 127 |
| The Camelia | 3.96 million pesos | 1,475 million pesos | 420 | 32 |
| France | 3.83 million pesos | 1,000 million pesos | 304 | 79 |
| The Einea | 3.75 million pesos | 470 million pesos | 128 | 67 |
| Cyprus | 3.70 million pesos | 720 million pesos | 200 | 106 |
| Beautiful countryside | 3.14 million pesos | 570 million pesos | 188 | 32 |
| The Centre | 2.93 million pesos | 800 million pesos | 312 | 49 |
| The Sultana | 2.70 million pesos | 485 million pesos | 200 | 46 |
| Centre | 2.68 million pesos | 800 million pesos | 340 | 30 |
| The Forest | 2.50 million pesos | 600 million pesos | 246 | 39 |
Medians; only neighborhoods with 30 ads or more with declared area.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Manizales to buy? Alhambra, with 6.38 million pesos per m² in the median (October of 2026).
And the cheapest? The Forest, with 2.50 million pesos per m².
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). Cheapest and cheaper bars from Manizales to buy house: ranking per m² (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-manizales-venta-m²-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23521655 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): Barrios más caros y más baratos de Manizales para comprar casa: ranking por m² (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-manizales-venta-m2-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/estudios-vivienda-lote-19-2026/tree/main/barrios-con-casas-mas-caras-y-baratas-manizales-venta-m2-2026