Rent levels in Calella, from declared leases
It is 20 % above the reference of five years earlier. It rests on 1.591 declared leases. The reference for Calella is 8,09 €/m², above the national middle, so a sitting tenant has more to lose from moving than the headline suggests.
Rents declared on income-tax returns for main-residence leases, not asking prices. They lag the market and exclude holiday lets.
In context
Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the twelfth lowest median floor area of a let flat.
Taking every municipality covered here together, the lower-quartile rent per square metre is in the band just below the top quarter.
Judged only against Barcelona, the reference rent per square metre here is the eleventh lowest in the guide.
Against the rest of the province
Country-wide, that upper-quartile rent per square metre is one of the band just below the top quarter.
Within Barcelona, that is the second lowest population among the municipalities this guide covers.
On a national view, its median declared monthly rent falls into the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.
How it compares
Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the twentieth highest five-year change in the reference rent of the group.
Nationally, that share of dwellings that are not a main residence falls in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.
On number of declared leases it is the seventeenth lowest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.
The reference figures, and how narrow the range is
6,58 €/m² to 9,96 €/m² is a narrow spread, so the address matters less here than the size.
Between 6,58 €/m² and 9,96 €/m² is ordinary here; above it you are buying a feature, not a flat.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lower quartile | 6,58 €/m² |
| Median | 8,09 €/m² |
| Upper quartile | 9,96 €/m² |
| Median monthly rent | 591,67 € |
| Median floor area | 72 m² |
A declared stressed rental market
Calella 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.
Put a quoted rent in its place
A typical declared lease in Calella runs at 591,67 € a month.
The median flat in Calella measures 72 m², an ordinary Spanish size.
| Floor area | At the lower quartile | At the median | At the upper quartile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 m² | 362 € | 445 € | 548 € |
| 75 m² | 494 € | 607 € | 747 € |
| 100 m² | 658 € | 809 € | 996 € |
The floor areas are round illustrative sizes used to show the arithmetic, not measurements of any particular flat.
Related guides
Sources and licences
- MIVAU, Sistema Estatal de Referencia del Precio del Alquiler de Vivienda (SERPAVI), base 2011-2024. Period: 2024; 2019-2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: MIVAU legal notice: reuse "para usos comerciales y no comerciales" with the source and its last-update date cited. Values are rents declared on income-tax returns, not asking prices.
- INE, Censo de Población y Viviendas 2021, viviendas por tipo (tabla 59525). Period: 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (INE legal notice). Attribution: "Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE".
- RESOLUCIO TER/800/2024, de 13 de marc, del Departament de Territori (DOGC num. 9122, de 14 de marc de 2024). Period: 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: Official regional legal text, published in the journal named above.