Rent in Esplugues de Llobregat: an expensive market, measured
It is 20,4 % above the reference of five years earlier. A reference of 12,93 €/m² puts Esplugues de Llobregat among the dearest places to rent in Spain, where short-term letting quietly removes the best stock from the long-term pool. 2.842 declared leases sit behind it: enough to inform, small enough that one street can sit outside the range.
Rents declared on income-tax returns for main-residence leases, not asking prices. They lag the market and exclude holiday lets.
A sense of scale
Within Barcelona, that is the third highest lower-quartile rent per square metre among the municipalities this guide covers.
Set the national range end to end and this reference rent per square metre lands in the dearest twentieth of them all.
Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the sixth highest upper-quartile rent per square metre of the group.
Measured against its neighbours
Put beside the rest of the country, its median floor area of a let flat belongs to the cheapest twentieth of them.
Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by median declared monthly rent and this one is the tenth highest.
Set the national range end to end and this share of dwellings that are not a main residence lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.
Where this one stands
Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by number of declared leases and this one is the twenty-second highest.
Against every municipality in this guide, its five-year change in the reference rent lands in the lower middle of the range.
On population it is the twenty-second highest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.
What the reference says a flat should cost
The median declared lease in Esplugues de Llobregat costs 800,00 € a month.
A median floor area of 62 m² makes Esplugues de Llobregat a market of compact flats.
| Floor area | At the lower quartile | At the median | At the upper quartile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 m² | 591 € | 711 € | 837 € |
| 75 m² | 806 € | 970 € | 1.142 € |
| 100 m² | 1.074 € | 1.293 € | 1.522 € |
The floor areas are round illustrative sizes used to show the arithmetic, not measurements of any particular flat.
The reference figures, in a market that prices by size alone
10,74 €/m² to 15,22 €/m² is a very narrow spread: Esplugues de Llobregat prices by square metre and rewards little else.
10,74 €/m² to 15,22 €/m² is the middle half; asking prices in a market this tight routinely sit above the whole band.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lower quartile | 10,74 €/m² |
| Median | 12,93 €/m² |
| Upper quartile | 15,22 €/m² |
| Median monthly rent | 800,00 € |
| Median floor area | 62 m² |
A declared stressed rental market
Esplugues de Llobregat 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.
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.