Is it worth a high-floor apartment? Price per m² per floor in 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.
A flat apartment 11 is requested in Colombia 20.8% more expensive per square metre than one in floors 1 and 2 of the same city and estrato. The comparison uses 56 city and estrato combinations with 30 ads or more in each group.
Abstract: We analyze 77,902 apartments for sale with declared floor and area.
Updated: 18 October 2026 (data from 18 October 2026) · Next update: monthly.
Summary
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Floor 11 + vs. floors 1 - 2 (paired) | +20.8% |
| City-estrato combinations | 56 |
| Announcements | 77,902 |
Price per m² per height (unmatched)
| Height | Weight per m² (median) | Announcements |
|---|---|---|
| Floors 1 - 2 | 5,885,430 | 17,675 |
| Floors 3 - 5 | 5,844,156 | 27,218 |
| Floors 6 - 10 | 6,651,786 | 18,783 |
| Floors 11 - 20 | 7,181,818 | 12,641 |
| Floor 21 or more | 7,631,579 | 1,585 |
Unmatched, differences mix cities and estratos: high buildings are concentrated in expensive areas.
Frequently asked questions
Is an apartment on the upper floor more expensive? Yes: from the floor 11 onwards a 20.8% more per m² is requested than on floors 1 - 2, in the same city and estrato.
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. The indicators of furnished, pets, closed set, balcony and direct ad of the owner only exist for rent and come from the portals.
- Floor: the one who declares the announcement; floors 1 to 60 are used.
- 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). Is it worth a high-floor apartment? Price per m² per floor in Colombia (October 2026). Aptology (aptologia.com). https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m²-segun-piso-apartamentos-colombia-2026. Data: datos.csv, CC BY license 4. 0.
Sources and data
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23460774 (Zenodo)
- Original study (Spanish): ¿Vale más un apartamento en piso alto? Precio por m² según el piso en Colombia (octubre 2026)
- GitHub (CSV, PDF): https://github.com/elbroker/aptologia-datos/tree/main/estudios/precio-m2-segun-piso-apartamentos-colombia-2026
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/datasets/aptologia/precio-m2-segun-piso-apartamentos-colombia-2026