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el Poblenou Rent Prices (2026)

As of Q1 2026, the average rent in el Poblenou is €1,192 a month for an average 67 m² flat, or €18.73 per m². All figures are official Generalitat de Catalunya statistics, updated quarterly.

11th
of 68 for rent
+11%
vs city average
€6,429
to buy
176
contracts

What this barri is like

2.0
residents per home, counting every home in the barri
44
median age of residents
35%
of homes built before 1940
459
licensed tourist flats

Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2026, CC BY 4.0. These describe the place; none of them predicts rent. Methodology.

How this barri compares

Four things the city measures about every neighbourhood, each set against the other 72.

Road traffic noise at night
19%

Lower than 57% of barris · % of residents · modelled, not measured

Steep streets
0.4%

Lower than 94% of barris · % of audited slope points

Households with a child
24%

Higher than 71% of barris · % of households

Residents with a foreign passport
27%

Higher than 71% of barris · % of residents

Filter all 73 barris on these →

Bars run against the city median, marked. No colour: none of these has a better end.

Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2022, 2026, CC BY 4.0. How these are measured.

Other neighborhoods in Sant Martí

Closest in price, elsewhere in Barcelona

Rent Price Trend

Rent per m² in el Poblenou, Q1 2014 to Q1 2026
QuarterPrice per m²
Q1 2014€11.38
Q2 2014€10.36
Q3 2014€10.40
Q4 2014€10.19
Q1 2015€10.62
Q2 2015€11.85
Q3 2015€11.89
Q4 2015€12.48
Q1 2016€11.93
Q2 2016€12.70
Q3 2016€13.13
Q4 2016€13.37
Q1 2017€13.35
Q2 2017€13.99
Q3 2017€14.23
Q4 2017€14.21
Q1 2018€14.13
Q2 2018€14.27
Q3 2018€14.68
Q4 2018€14.76
Q1 2019€14.39
Q2 2019€14.61
Q3 2019€15.52
Q4 2019€15.94
Q1 2020€15.24
Q2 2020€14.72
Q3 2020€15.18
Q4 2020€14.49
Q1 2021€14.32
Q2 2021€14.08
Q3 2021€14.59
Q4 2021€14.32
Q1 2022€15.03
Q2 2022€16.89
Q3 2022€16.89
Q4 2022€17.15
Q1 2023€17.60
Q2 2023€16.90
Q3 2023€18.15
Q4 2023€18.59
Q1 2024€19.18
Q2 2024€18.71
Q3 2024€17.30
Q4 2024€16.73
Q1 2025€18.04
Q2 2025€18.30
Q3 2025€17.75
Q4 2025€19.07
Q1 2026€18.73
Rent per m² in el Poblenou, Q1 2014 to Q1 2026

Sale Price Trend

Sale price per m² in el Poblenou, Q4 2013 to Q2 2026. Official Generalitat data on registered transactions.
QuarterBuy €/m²
Q4 2013€3,069
Q1 2014€3,165
Q2 2014€2,756
Q3 2014€3,210
Q4 2014€3,440
Q1 2015€2,791
Q2 2015€2,786
Q3 2015€3,066
Q4 2015€3,306
Q1 2016€3,880
Q2 2016€3,637
Q3 2016€4,442
Q4 2016€3,711
Q1 2017€4,372
Q2 2017€4,105
Q3 2017€4,144
Q4 2017€4,920
Q1 2018€3,901
Q2 2018€4,304
Q3 2018€4,701
Q4 2018€4,653
Q1 2019€4,375
Q2 2019€4,515
Q3 2019€4,638
Q4 2019€4,831
Q1 2020€5,050
Q2 2020€4,643
Q3 2020€4,681
Q4 2020€4,865
Q1 2021€4,483
Q2 2021€4,848
Q3 2021€4,882
Q4 2021€4,518
Q1 2022€5,230
Q2 2022€4,676
Q3 2022€4,814
Q4 2022€5,266
Q1 2023€5,052
Q2 2023€5,419
Q3 2023€5,353
Q4 2023€5,088
Q1 2024€5,486
Q2 2024€5,262
Q3 2024€5,394
Q4 2024€5,305
Q1 2025€5,601
Q2 2025€5,996
Q3 2025€6,261
Q4 2025€6,116
Q1 2026€6,157
Q2 2026€6,429

What is on the street

el Poblenou is one of Barcelona’s busiest streets.

More places to eat and drink than 83% of the 73 barris.

Restaurants & bars
8.4
Food shops
5.6
Health & care
1.5
Education
2.0
Leisure & culture
1.4

Bars run against the city median, marked.

Ajuntament de Barcelona commercial census, CC BY 4.0. How this is counted.

Rent vs buy

Rent

€18.73

per m²

Est. monthly, 75 m²

€1,405

As of Q1 2026

Buy

€6,429

per m²

Est. price, 75 m²

€482,144

As of Q2 2026

Typical sale: 79 m² for €505,000, from 127 registered transactions.

Rent and sale figures are from different quarters, so no yield is shown.

Fair rent for 75 m² in el Poblenou

Excl. utilities

What gets rented here

30%
rated F or G, the two worst energy bands · city 27%
42%
of property activity here is renting, not selling
10.9
per 1,000 homes in this barri came up for rent this year

From 189 energy certificates issued for homes let in this barri over the last 12 months (ICAEN), against its 17,390 homes (Ajuntament de Barcelona, CC BY 4.0).

What people here earn

€27,093

Disposable income in el Poblenou averages €27,093 per person a year (2023, Ajuntament de Barcelona). The city average is €24,904.

Per person, not per household, and the mean across this barri’s census sections. CC BY 4.0. Why we do not divide rent by it.

New lettings registered here

That is about 1.9 new lettings a day.

176 contracts registered in el Poblenou in Q1 2026.

A count, not a vacancy rate: bigger barris register more contracts simply because they hold more homes. How to read this figure.

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Rent from INCASÒL; sale prices from the Generalitat's registered-transaction statistics. Gross yield is our calculation. Q1 2026, indicative. Always check your own contract.