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Igualada rents against the official reference

It is 21,6 % above the reference of five years earlier. 2.642 declared leases sit behind it: enough to inform, small enough that one street can sit outside the range. Igualada carries a reference rent of 6,62 €/m², below the Spanish middle but no longer at the floor.

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

How it ranks

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by share of dwellings that are not a main residence and this one is the thirteenth highest.

Across the country, the number of declared leases here belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits tenth highest on five-year change in the reference rent.

Put beside its neighbours

Across the country, the population here belongs to the upper middle of the range.

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the third lowest lower-quartile rent per square metre of the group.

Against every municipality in this guide, its median declared monthly rent lands in the band just above the middle.

In context

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits third lowest on reference rent per square metre.

Set the national range end to end and this upper-quartile rent per square metre lands in the exact middle of the range.

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the eleventh highest median floor area of a let flat of the group.

The reference figures

2.642 declared leases sit behind it: enough to inform, small enough that one street can sit outside the range.

5,11 €/m² to 8,43 €/m² covers the middle half of declared leases in Igualada — ordinary dispersion.

Declared rents for flats: rent per square metre a month, unless stated
MeasureValue
Lower quartile5,11 €/m²
Median6,62 €/m²
Upper quartile8,43 €/m²
Median monthly rent534,90 €
Median floor area83 m²

A declared stressed rental market

Igualada 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.

How much of the stock is rented

The census publishes tenure only for the larger municipalities and the provincial capitals, so no rented share is available for Igualada.

Only 14,11 % of Igualada dwellings are not a main home, so almost nothing is competing with long leases.

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