Sale Prices Are Live — Plus a Rent Map and 12 Years of History
We've been quiet for a few months. Here's what we were doing.
You can see purchase prices now
Until now this site answered one question: what does it cost to rent here? It now answers the other one too.
Every neighbourhood and district page shows the average sale price per m² next to the rent, both from official Generalitat data on registered transactions. Sarrià is the most expensive place to buy in the city at €7,873/m². la Trinitat Vella is the cheapest at €2,255/m². That's a 3.5× spread across one city.
And the number that needed both
Once you have rent and purchase price for the same neighbourhood, you get the gross rental yield — a year's rent as a share of what the flat costs.
The spread is wider than most people expect:
- la Trinitat Vella — 8.30%. About 12 years of rent to equal the purchase price.
- Sarrià — 2.97%. About 34 years.
One warning, because this number gets misread constantly: a high yield means cheap to buy, not better. la Trinitat Vella tops the list precisely because nobody is bidding up the flats. And "gross" means before IBI, community fees, insurance, maintenance, empty months and tax — realistically one to two points come off the top.
A map of the whole city
The homepage now opens with an actual map of Barcelona's ten districts, shaded by price. There's a toggle: switch it from rent to buy and the map recolours.
It's worth doing once, because it shows something a table doesn't. Ciutat Vella is the second most expensive district to rent in Barcelona — and only the seventh most expensive to buy. The Gothic Quarter is priced for tourists, not for owners.
More history than we had
Neighbourhood rent data now runs quarterly from 2014, and district-level rent all the way back to 2000 — 105 quarters. Sale prices go back to 2013. Every district page has a trend chart covering the lot.
For context: Ciutat Vella rented for €5.00/m² in early 2000. It's €18.41/m² today.
One honest note
While building this we found a bug in our own import script: it had been reading a cumulative column from the source spreadsheet as if it were quarterly data, and folding district totals in among the neighbourhoods. Some figures on this site were wrong.
We rebuilt the whole series from source and added checks that fail loudly instead of quietly. If a number looks different from what you remember, that's why — it's right now.
All figures come from the Generalitat de Catalunya: INCASÒL for rent, registered transaction statistics for sale prices. Compare your own rent or browse the districts.