Market notes

Short notes on what the PropertyLens dataset shows, rewritten from the latest figures on each data refresh. Each note says how many ads sit behind a number and what the number cannot tell you.

Where land asks the most per perch

Colombo district holds all 8 of the highest median land asks per perch; Dehiwala is highest at Rs 5 million.

Apartment rents against asking prices

Gross yields from asking rents range from 4.9% to 6.2% in 4 towns, with one unverified outlier (Colombo 6, 11.9%).

Houses and apartments: asking price per square foot

Apartments ask more per square foot than houses in all 14 towns with enough ads.

Figures come from 13,639 public property listings collected from ikman.lk. The notes contain our own computed statistics only, no listing text, photos or links. Method · Town pages