Property prices in Ja-Ela
This page summarises 185 public property listings in Ja-Ela, Gampaha 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 875,000 | Rs 600,000 to Rs 1.12 million | 52 |
| Houses for sale, asking price | Rs 34.5 million | Rs 26 million to Rs 42 million | 103 |
| Houses, asking price per sq ft | Rs 14,096 | Rs 11,502 to Rs 16,504 | 102 |
| Apartments for sale, asking price | Rs 36 million | Rs 9.8 million to Rs 36.9 million | 10 |
| Apartments, asking price per sq ft | Rs 40,750 | Rs 30,942 to Rs 45,000 | 10 |
| Houses for rent, per month | Rs 100,000 | Rs 75,000 to Rs 155,000 | 19 |
Yields
- Gross rental yield on houses: 3.5% (median annual rent divided by median asking price).
How Ja-Ela compares
- Median land per perch: Rs 875,000, about 1.3 times the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 650,000). Rank 33 of 85 towns with enough listings, highest first.
- Median house asking prices: Rs 34.5 million, close to the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 38.62 million). Rank 39 of 66 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 Ja-Ela
- The sample is mostly houses for sale (103 of 184 usable ads).
- Asking-price spread for houses for sale, asking price is about the same as a typical town: the middle half runs Rs 26 million to Rs 42 million (a 1.6x gap between the quartiles, against 1.8x for the median town).
- Within Gampaha district, the median land, per perch here is about 1.2 times the district figure (Rs 875,000 vs Rs 750,000), rank 5 of 15 priced towns in the district.
- On gross house yield (3.5%), Ja-Ela ranks 15 of 38 towns where rent and sale samples are both thick enough to compute one.
How the Ja-Ela numbers have moved
- Land per perch: the median is up about 51% compared with four weeks earlier - Rs 875,000 against Rs 580,000 on 6 October, on 52 ads now and 54 then.
- Land per perch: the median is up about 35% compared with a week earlier - Rs 875,000 against Rs 650,000 on 27 October, on 52 ads now and 33 then.
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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