Property prices in Talawatugoda
This page summarises 156 public property listings in Talawatugoda, 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 2.6 million | Rs 1.98 million to Rs 3.1 million | 65 |
| Houses for sale, asking price | Rs 63 million | Rs 53 million to Rs 79 million | 72 |
| Houses, asking price per sq ft | Rs 21,923 | Rs 19,685 to Rs 28,000 | 71 |
Measures with fewer than 10 ads are left out of the table: Apartments for sale, asking price; Apartments, asking price per sq ft; Houses for rent, per month; Apartments for rent, per month.
How Talawatugoda compares
- Median land per perch: Rs 2.6 million, about 4.0 times the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 650,000). Rank 14 of 85 towns with enough listings, highest first.
- Median house asking prices: Rs 63 million, about 1.6 times the middle town figure island-wide (Rs 38.62 million). Rank 15 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 Talawatugoda
- The sample is mostly houses for sale (72 of 156 usable ads).
- Asking-price spread for houses for sale, asking price is tighter than a typical town: the middle half runs Rs 53 million to Rs 79 million (a 1.5x gap between the quartiles, against 1.8x for the median town).
- Within Colombo district, the median land, per perch here is about 1.3 times the district figure (Rs 2.6 million vs Rs 2.05 million), rank 12 of 20 priced towns in the district.
- Where Talawatugoda stands out most island-wide is land, per perch: rank 14 of 85 towns with enough listings, highest first.
- On gross apartment yield (6.1%), Talawatugoda ranks 5 of 20 towns where rent and sale samples are both thick enough to compute one.
How the Talawatugoda numbers have moved
- Land per perch: the median is up about 8% compared with a week earlier - Rs 2.6 million against Rs 2.4 million on 27 October, on 65 ads now and 40 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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