Property prices in Colombo 6
This page summarises 101 public property listings in Colombo 6, Colombo district, collected from ikman.lk on 3 November 2026. Figures are asking prices, not sale prices. Each row shows the median (the middle ad), the middle half of ads (25th to 75th percentile) and the number of ads behind it.
| Measure | Median | Middle half of ads | Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houses for sale, asking price | Rs 205 million | Rs 180 million to Rs 210 million | 11 |
| Houses, asking price per sq ft | Rs 51,429 | Rs 48,354 to Rs 60,000 | 11 |
| Apartments for sale, asking price | Rs 54 million | Rs 43 million to Rs 60 million | 72 |
| Apartments, asking price per sq ft | Rs 45,106 | Rs 40,870 to Rs 48,518 | 72 |
Measures with fewer than 10 ads are left out of the table: Land, per perch; Houses for rent, per month; Apartments for rent, per month.
How Colombo 6 compares
- Median apartment asking prices: Rs 54 million, close to the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 50 million). Rank 12 of 28 towns with enough listings, highest first.
The island reference is the median of town medians for towns with at least 30 listings, so it describes a typical town, not the national market.
What stands out in Colombo 6
- The sample is mostly apartments for sale (72 of 101 usable ads).
- Asking-price spread for apartments for sale, asking price is about the same as a typical town: the middle half runs Rs 43 million to Rs 60 million (a 1.4x gap between the quartiles, against 1.3x for the median town).
- Within Colombo district, the median houses for sale, asking price here is about 3.6 times the district figure (Rs 205 million vs Rs 57 million), rank 3 of 22 priced towns in the district.
- On gross apartment yield (8.9%), Colombo 6 ranks 3 of 20 towns where rent and sale samples are both thick enough to compute one.
How the Colombo 6 numbers have moved
- House asking prices: the median is down about 11% compared with four weeks earlier - Rs 205 million against Rs 230 million on 6 October, on 11 ads now and 12 then.
- The mix of ads has shifted since 10 October: apartments for sale now makes up 71% of the usable sample, against 83% four weeks earlier. When the mix moves, a median can move without any asking price changing.
This compares daily asking medians on changing samples of ads; it describes this site's sample, not a formal price index.
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Sellers ask more than buyers pay, and listings expire or sell. Outliers are trimmed to the 5th to 95th percentile band and ads whose title names a different town are excluded. The method page explains every step. Nothing here is valuation or investment advice.
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