Habi buys and sells homes in Bucaramanga! Here we tell you all the details

The “beautiful city” or also known as “the city of parks in Colombia”, is now a new Habi city. This is great news for all those who are looking to buy and sell houses or apartments in Bucaramanga.

With 1,294,317 inhabitants in its metropolitan area, the city of Bucaramanga stands as the fifth most populous city in Colombia. It is also one of the cities with the lowest unemployment rate in the country, at 8% for the month of September 2022, according to data from DANE.
These figures, along with the potential for real estate growth, were some of the reasons that led us to deploy our operations in this city.
If you are interested in buying and selling homes in Bucaramanga and want to find the best real estate ally for you, continue reading and discover the benefits of having Habi in this city.
How is the real estate sector in Bucaramanga?
The city of Bucaramanga is in a process of recovery and growth in the real estate sector.
According to data from the Bucaramanga Chamber of Commerce and CAMACOL, willingness to buy a home has increased 24%, which means that confidence in this sector has been recovering since the pandemic.
Likewise, sales in housing projects in Bucaramanga exceeded $1.7 trillion pesos in 2021, being a considerable increase compared to the previous year that registered real estate sales for $1.2 trillion.
Regarding people who seek to invest and later sell their properties, the IVP (Property Valuation Index) in the city shows a constant growth year after year with an average annual variation of +5%, according to data provided by DANE.

The “beautiful city” has become an attractive investment in the real estate sector, as we saw previously, but why has this great rebound in investment occurred in Bucaramanga compared to the rest of the cities in the country?
Here are the 3 most compelling reasons to invest in real estate in Bucaramanga:
1. Quality schools and universities in Bucaramanga
One of the benefits that you can have when buying a home in Bucaramanga is being able to find a wide range of schools and universities that are leading the different educational quality rankings nationwide.
The offer of public and private schools in Bucaramanga stand out in the country’s top 30 with the best educational quality.
Among the most outstanding schools, according to Sapiens Research, are the Colegio Bilingüe Divino Niño de Bucaramanga and the Fundación Colegio UIS de Floridablanca, a municipality belonging to the Metropolitan Area, which ranked first nationally in the ICFES score at the beginning of 2022.
The universities in Bucaramanga are not far behind. Higher education institutions in this region of the country begin to appear in the top 30 best universities according to the Times Higher Education firm.

Among the most prominent are:

Unmatched parks and tourist sites. Bucaramanga is known as the city of parks in Colombia for its more than 200 natural spaces distributed throughout its 17 communes. Among the most outstanding parks found in this city are: Centennial Park, Santander Park, The children’s park, The Water Park and Rosemary Park, among others.

On the tourist sites in Bucaramanga, there are two of great cultural and ecotourism recognition that everyone who wants to live there should know.

To name a few:
Cerro del Santísimo Ecopark: recognized for its enormous 40-meter-high sculpture and its unmissable viewpoint to the city of Bucaramanga.
Chicamocha National Park: located 54 km from the beautiful city, it is one of the most recognized parks in Colombia and in the world, since it has attractions such as the cable car that crosses the Chicamocha canyon to the municipality of Mesa de los Santos , being one of the most extensive on the planet in its journey.