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What renting in Badalona costs, on the record

Badalona rents at a reference of 10,17 €/m², high enough that a single square metre of difference in the contract is worth arguing about. It is 18,3 % above the reference of five years earlier. With 11.538 declared leases behind it, the quartiles are stable from year to year.

Rents declared on income-tax returns for main-residence leases, not asking prices. They lag the market and exclude holiday lets.

Put beside its neighbours

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its number of declared leases is the fifth highest.

Across the country, the population here belongs to the second-dearest twentieth.

Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the eighteenth highest lower-quartile rent per square metre.

Put beside the rest of the country, its reference rent per square metre belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

Measured against its neighbours

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by median declared monthly rent and this one is the nineteenth highest.

Against every municipality in this guide, its upper-quartile rent per square metre lands in the third-dearest twentieth.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes twentieth lowest on share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Measured against the whole batch, that median floor area of a let flat sits in the third-cheapest twentieth.

How it ranks

Judged only against Barcelona, the five-year change in the reference rent here is the sixteenth lowest in the guide.

Nationally, that share of main homes that are rented falls in the band just below the top quarter.

Testing a quote against the declared figures

727,65 € a month is the median declared rent in Badalona, above the national middle.

It is 18,3 % above the reference of five years earlier.

What the reference implies for a flat of a given size, per month
Floor areaAt the lower quartileAt the medianAt the upper quartile
55 m²460 €559 €675 €
75 m²627 €763 €920 €
100 m²836 €1.017 €1.227 €

The floor areas are round illustrative sizes used to show the arithmetic, not measurements of any particular flat.

The reference figures, and how narrow the range is

8,36 €/m² to 12,27 €/m² is a narrow spread, so the address matters less here than the size.

With 11.538 declared leases behind it, the quartiles are stable from year to year.

Declared rents for flats: rent per square metre a month, unless stated
MeasureValue
Lower quartile8,36 €/m²
Median10,17 €/m²
Upper quartile12,27 €/m²
Median monthly rent727,65 €
Median floor area72 m²

A declared stressed rental market

Badalona has been declared a zona de mercado residencial tensionado by its comunidad autónoma, which is the trigger for the rent limits in the Housing Act: a new lease on a home that was let in the previous five years is generally held to the previous rent as updated, and a large holder is additionally held to the reference index. The declaration is made regionally and listed by the ministry, it runs for a fixed term and it can be extended, so check it is still current before relying on it. The declaring norm is named in the sources below.

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