What renting in Portugalete costs, on the record
No comparable earlier reference is published for this municipality, so no five-year change is shown. Portugalete rents at a reference of 10,16 €/m², high enough that a single square metre of difference in the contract is worth arguing about. It rests on 1.148 declared leases.
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
Judged only against Bizkaia, the lower-quartile rent per square metre here is the sixth lowest in the guide.
Nationally, that reference rent per square metre falls in the third-dearest twentieth.
On median floor area of a let flat it is the second lowest of the Bizkaia municipalities this guide covers.
In context
Country-wide, that share of dwellings that are not a main residence is one of the second-cheapest twentieth.
Compared with the rest of Bizkaia in this guide, it sits fifth lowest on median declared monthly rent.
Against every municipality in this guide, its upper-quartile rent per square metre lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.
How it ranks
Line the Bizkaia municipalities in this guide up by population and this one is the fifth highest.
Against every municipality in this guide, its number of declared leases lands in the eighth twentieth from the bottom.
Testing a quote against the declared figures
696,42 € a month is the median declared rent in Portugalete, above the national middle.
A median floor area of 66,80 m² makes Portugalete a market of compact flats.
| Floor area | At the lower quartile | At the median | At the upper quartile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 m² | 483 € | 559 € | 636 € |
| 75 m² | 659 € | 762 € | 868 € |
| 100 m² | 879 € | 1.016 € | 1.157 € |
The floor areas are round illustrative sizes used to show the arithmetic, not measurements of any particular flat.
How much of the stock is rented
Only 8,83 % of Portugalete dwellings are not a main home, so almost nothing is competing with long leases.
The census publishes tenure only for the larger municipalities and the provincial capitals, so no rented share is available for Portugalete.
The reference figures, in a market that prices by size alone
8,79 €/m² to 11,57 €/m² is a very narrow spread: Portugalete prices by square metre and rewards little else.
The band from 8,79 €/m² to 11,57 €/m² is where most signed contracts sit, whatever the portals show.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lower quartile | 8,79 €/m² |
| Median | 10,16 €/m² |
| Upper quartile | 11,57 €/m² |
| Median monthly rent | 696,42 € |
| Median floor area | 66,80 m² |
Related guides
Sources and licences
- MIVAU, Sistema Estatal de Referencia del Precio del Alquiler de Vivienda (SERPAVI), base 2011-2024. Period: 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".
- MIVAU, registro de zonas de mercado residencial tensionado (art. 18 Ley 12/2023). Period: 16 September 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: MIVAU legal notice: reuse for commercial and non-commercial purposes with the source and its last-update date cited.