Barcelona leads the rise in rental prices with an average that has climbed to 1,123 euros during the second quarter of this year. This record figure pushes up the average monthly rental price in Catalonia to 830 euros between April and June, which represents an increase of 9.7% while the number of contracts has been reduced by 10.4%.
The average rental price has increased in all districts of Barcelona and only maintains a slight downward trend in Sant Andreu and Sant Martí. Thus, between April and June the average price in Eixample has reached 1,276 euros, when between January and March the average was 1,214 euros. In Les Corts the price has gone from 1,190 euros to 1,272 and in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi from 1,442 to 1,553.
According to the data, which are extracted from the finances that are deposited in the Catalan Soil Institute (Incasòl), the rental price only falls below one thousand euros in three districts of the city: Horta (which even so, has passed from a average of 881 euros during the first quarter to 909 euros during the second), Nou Barris (779 euros) and Sant Andreu (877).
Thus, the average rent for housing in Barcelona during the second quarter stood at 1,123 euros per month, 3.3% more than during the previous quarter (in which the average price was 1,087 euros) and 12 .7% more than in 2022.
The upward trend in prices during the second quarter accentuates the rise that has been recorded since January. For this reason, the Minister of Territory, Ester Capella, has demanded that the acting Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, apply the Spanish housing law: “Without this law the market continues to function wildly.”
Capella has compared the figures from January to June 2013 with those of this year to point out that “the price of rental housing has risen by 43.6% in Catalonia and 62.1% in Barcelona” and added that “it has not There is no society that can resist this increase because no one in this country has seen their salary increase in the same proportion as the price of rent increases.
By province, the averages for the first six months of the year are 899.7 euros in Barcelona, ??636 in Girona, 566 in Tarragona, and 473 in Lleida.
