Property prices in Dehiwala
This page summarises 134 public property listings in Dehiwala, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land, per perch | Rs 4.5 million | Rs 3.89 million to Rs 5.98 million | 34 |
| Houses for sale, asking price | Rs 98 million | Rs 76.5 million to Rs 125 million | 34 |
| Houses, asking price per sq ft | Rs 30,227 | Rs 25,250 to Rs 36,903 | 34 |
| Apartments for sale, asking price | Rs 50.5 million | Rs 35 million to Rs 58.5 million | 45 |
| Apartments, asking price per sq ft | Rs 37,037 | Rs 33,828 to Rs 40,815 | 45 |
| Houses for rent, per month | Rs 350,000 | Rs 300,000 to Rs 400,000 | 15 |
Measures with fewer than 10 ads are left out of the table: Apartments for rent, per month.
Yields
- Gross rental yield on houses: 4.3% (median annual rent divided by median asking price).
How Dehiwala compares
- Median land per perch: Rs 4.5 million, about 6.9 times the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 650,000). Rank 5 of 85 towns with enough listings, highest first.
- Median house asking prices: Rs 98 million, about 2.5 times the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 38.62 million). Rank 9 of 66 towns with enough listings, highest first.
- Median apartment asking prices: Rs 50.5 million, close to the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 50 million). Rank 13 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 Dehiwala
- The sample is mostly apartments for sale (45 of 134 usable ads).
- Asking-price spread for apartments for sale, asking price is wider than a typical town: the middle half runs Rs 35 million to Rs 58.5 million (a 1.7x gap between the quartiles, against 1.3x for the median town).
- Within Colombo district, the median land, per perch here is about 2.2 times the district figure (Rs 4.5 million vs Rs 2.05 million), rank 5 of 20 priced towns in the district.
- Where Dehiwala stands out most island-wide is land, per perch: rank 5 of 85 towns with enough listings, highest first.
- On gross apartment yield (9.5%), Dehiwala ranks 2 of 20 towns where rent and sale samples are both thick enough to compute one.
How the Dehiwala numbers have moved
- House rents: the median is up about 133% compared with four weeks earlier - Rs 350,000 against Rs 150,000 on 5 October, on 15 ads now and 11 then.
- House rents: the median is up about 106% compared with a week earlier - Rs 350,000 against Rs 170,000 on 26 October, on 15 ads now and 7 then. The earlier sample was thin (7 ads), so read the size of the move with care.
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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