Real rental prices, housing mix and market trend in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot.
Median rent
€1,300/month
Mean: €1,482/month
Price per m²
18.8€
Barcelona: 22.2€/m²
Trend
Not enough data
€/m² vs previous period
Listings analyzed
85
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
El Camp de l'Arpa del Clot is the worst-kept secret on the rental platforms and, at the same time, a neighbourhood almost no expat guide mentions. It sits north of the Encants flea market, between Sagrada Família and El Clot, fifteen minutes by metro from Plaça Catalunya and zero minutes from any tourist route.
This is a neighbourhood of long-standing residents, local shops, a covered market and a density of cheap set-lunch bars that is hard to beat. The tenant profile has changed quickly: to the working families who have always been here, add everyone who can no longer afford the Eixample or Gràcia. The flats are family-sized, with half the supply offering three bedrooms, and you will see more private landlords advertising here than in the central neighbourhoods.
Its strength is the price per square metre, the lowest of the ten. Its weakness is that it is not central, and that the volume of rental listings is limited, so you need to be watching when one appears.
Transport: metro L1 (Clot), L2 (Encants, Clot) and L5 (Sagrada Família, Camp de l'Arpa).
51% of rental flats in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot have three bedrooms, followed by 34% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 2% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 4%.
Lift. 83% of rental homes here have a lift. 1960s and 1970s blocks built for working families, with a lift in most buildings.
Private landlord or agency. 23% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 77% that come through an agency. That is one of the highest private-landlord shares in Barcelona, so this is where you have the best chance of dealing with an owner directly.
The median rent in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot is €1,300 a month. Most flats let for between €1,036 and €1,800 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,036, and another quarter goes above €1,800.
Per square metre that works out at 18.8€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €940 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,320, and a 90 m² flat around €1,690.
Against the city as a whole, el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot sits 13% below the Barcelona median (€1,496/month), where the median price per square metre is 22.2€/m².
In el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot, only 10% of listings go below 14.0€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €980 a month or less, it is below the 10th percentile for the neighbourhood.
That does not make it a scam, but it is worth checking before you go any further. A price well below the local market is the single most common red flag in rental fraud.
For reference, the 25th percentile in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot sits at 16.1€/m². Below that, the price is good for the neighbourhood without being anomalous.
We do not have enough recent listings in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot to calculate a reliable trend. With 43 and 42 listings in the two periods we compare, any percentage would say more about the sample size than about the market, so we would rather not publish one.
Based on 85 Idealista listings in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot analyzed over the last few months. We compare two consecutive 28-day periods, and we measure the change in price per square metre rather than in median rent: median rent rises and falls with the size of the flats posted in a given week, which describes our sample rather than the market. Our history is still short, so these figures describe where the market is right now, not an annual trend.
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The median rent in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot is €1,300 a month, which works out at roughly 19€/m². Most flats let for between €1,036 and €1,800 a month. These figures come from 85 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not have enough recent listings in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot to calculate a reliable trend. With 43 and 42 listings in the two periods we compare, any percentage would say more about the sample size than about the market, so we would rather not publish one.
83% of rental homes in el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot have a lift. 1960s and 1970s blocks built for working families, with a lift in most buildings.
In practice, yes. Most landlords and agencies in Barcelona will ask for your NIE (Número de Identificación de Extranjero) before signing a rental contract, and you will also need it to set up utilities and open a bank account. It is not a legal requirement for the contract itself, but applicants without one tend to lose the flat to someone whose paperwork is ready. Here is how to get your NIE in Barcelona.