Tools for Buying in Colombia

Three free calculators answer the first money questions in a Colombian property purchase. They add up closing costs, convert a listing to dollars and check a price against the property investor visa minimum. Each runs in your browser on the numbers you type, using the 2026 rates.

Which Tool Answers Your Question

Start with the tool that matches where you are in a purchase. Each one takes a price typed the way Colombian listings write it, such as “620 millones”, “620m” or “620.000.000”, so you can paste figures straight from a listing.

• You have a listing in millones and want it in dollars. The house price converter turns pesos into US dollars and back, and gives the price per square meter and per square foot so you can compare apartments of different sizes.
• You have agreed a price and want to know the total. The closing cost calculator adds the notary fees, the 1% registration tax, the registry fees and any stamp tax, and shows who usually pays each. On an apartment priced at 650 million Colombian pesos (COP) in Medellín, the buyer’s share comes to about COP 16.5 million.
• You want a visa from the purchase. The investor visa checker compares your price with the 2026 minimum of COP 612,816,750 and shows the margin or the gap. The minimum is measured on the day you apply, so leave room for the January rise in the minimum wage.

One Listing Run Through All Three Tools

A Medellín apartment listed at 620 millones for 85 m² shows how the three tools fit together. Each figure below comes from the tools at 3,200 pesos per US dollar.

The per-meter price sits about 3% above the Q1 2026 Medellín average of COP 7,058,808 that Ciencuadras published. The visa margin is close to 1% of the price, so a small discount in negotiation would push the deed below the minimum. If you want both the visa and a lower price, look at units listed above COP 650 million instead.

How the Tools Get Their Numbers

Every rate the tools use sits in one file, with the official source for each value. The minimum wage comes from Decreto 1469 de 2025, and the visa rule from Resolución 5477 de 2022 of Cancillería.

The notary and registry tariffs come from the 2026 resolutions of the Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro. When one of them changes, every calculator changes with it.

The tools give estimates in 2026 terms. The minimum wage, and with it the visa minimum, changes each January. The notary and registry tariffs change each February, and the exchange rate moves daily. The notary’s liquidation and your bank’s transfer quote are the final figures.

What the Tools Leave Out

None of the tools prices a lawyer, an agent’s commission or your bank’s exchange spread. Closing costs and property taxes in Colombia covers those, and the free closing cost worksheet has lines to write them in. For the steps around the numbers, start with how to buy property in Colombia.