Barcelona rent and sale price data

Every figure on this site comes from official Generalitat de Catalunya statistics. They publish it as per-year spreadsheets in two different layouts; we compile it into one series and publish it back, free to reuse.

8,311 quarterly observations covering all 10 districts and all 73 neighbourhoods of Barcelona.

Coverage

Endpoints

/api/data/latest.json

Current quarter for every district and neighbourhood: rent €/m²/month, sale price €/m², and the gross rental yield derived from the two. Small enough to read whole. The yield is omitted where the rent and sale figures describe different quarters.

/api/data/history.json

The full quarterly series, back to 2000 for district rent. Observations are[code, year, quarter, value]tuples; the columns key names them.

Definitions

Rent, € per m² per month

The average contractual rent per square metre, from rental deposits registered with INCASÒL. It is not asking prices from listings — it is what people actually signed.

Sale price, € per m² of built area

The average transaction price per square metre, from sales registered with the Catalan property registries. Again, closed transactions rather than asking prices.

Gross rental yield, %

A year’s rent as a percentage of the purchase price for the same area and quarter: rent × 12 ÷ sale price × 100. Gross means before IBI, community fees, insurance, maintenance, vacancy and tax — net yield is typically one to two points lower. A high yield indicates a cheap purchase market, not a better one.

Licence and attribution

The compilation is published under CC BY 4.0. The underlying statistics are © Generalitat de Catalunya. If you reuse this, credit both — the Generalitat for the data and this site for the compilation.

Primary sources: INCASÒL rental statistics and registered-transaction statistics. Updated quarterly, within days of each release.

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