What a flat in Cartagena really rents for
A flat in Cartagena rents at a reference of 5,42 €/m², cheap enough that the condition of the property, not its price, is what you are really choosing between. With 6.741 declared leases behind it, the quartiles are stable from year to year. Five years have added 24 % to the reference, well ahead of general inflation.
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 Murcia alone: among the municipalities here, its population is the second highest.
Across the country, the number of declared leases here belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.
Take Murcia alone: among the municipalities here, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence is the eighth highest.
Set the national range end to end and this median floor area of a let flat lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.
Measured against its neighbours
Compared with the rest of Murcia in this guide, it sits second lowest on share of main homes that are rented.
Country-wide, that upper-quartile rent per square metre is one of the band just above the bottom quarter.
Set against the other Murcia municipalities in this guide, it has the fourth highest reference rent per square metre.
Taking every municipality covered here together, the lower-quartile rent per square metre is in the bottom quarter.
How it ranks
Within Murcia, that is the tenth highest five-year change in the reference rent among the municipalities this guide covers.
Across the country, the median declared monthly rent here belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.
Who rents here
13,77 % of main homes in Cartagena are rented, below the national pattern.
With 38,34 % of dwellings not a main home, long leases compete directly with seasonal use.
What a given flat should cost
The median monthly rent declared in Cartagena is 500,00 €.
Cartagena flats run large: the median declared area is 94 m².
| Floor area | At the lower quartile | At the median | At the upper quartile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 m² | 231 € | 298 € | 374 € |
| 75 m² | 315 € | 407 € | 510 € |
| 100 m² | 420 € | 542 € | 680 € |
The floor areas are round illustrative sizes used to show the arithmetic, not measurements of any particular flat.
The reference figures
With 6.741 declared leases behind it, the quartiles are stable from year to year.
4,20 €/m² to 6,80 €/m² covers the middle half of declared leases in Cartagena — ordinary dispersion.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lower quartile | 4,20 €/m² |
| Median | 5,42 €/m² |
| Upper quartile | 6,80 €/m² |
| Median monthly rent | 500,00 € |
| Median floor area | 94 m² |
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".
- INE, Censo de Población y Viviendas 2021, régimen de tenencia en municipios de más de 50.000 habitantes y capitales (tabla 59529). 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.