Real rental prices, housing mix and market trend in la Dreta de l'Eixample.
Median rent
€2,200/month
Mean: €2,278/month
Price per m²
26.0€
Barcelona: 22.2€/m²
Trend
↓ 5.4%
€/m² vs previous period
Listings analyzed
590
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
The Dreta de l'Eixample is the moneyed heart of Barcelona: the right-hand half of Cerdà's grid, between Passeig de Gràcia and Girona, with Casa Batlló and La Pedrera as neighbours. This is the postcard city of modernist facades, high ceilings, mosaic floors and wrought-iron balconies.
It is also, by a clear margin, the most expensive place to rent in Barcelona. It draws executives, expats on a company housing budget, professional firms and couples without children who will trade square metres for the address. The supply is heavily professionalised: nearly nine in ten listings come through an agency, the highest share of any neighbourhood here, so dealing directly with an owner is rare.
The upside is obvious. You are in the middle of everything, connected to the whole city, surrounded by shops and restaurants. The downside, beyond the rent, is that the neighbourhood empties out at weekends and has little street life of its own. It is a very comfortable place to live, but it is not a place where you know your neighbours.
Transport: metro lines L2, L3 and L4 (Passeig de Gràcia, Diagonal, Girona, Verdaguer), plus almost every bus route in the city.
38% of rental flats in la Dreta de l'Eixample have two bedrooms, followed by 25% with three bedrooms. Studios make up 7% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 11%.
Lift. 90% of rental homes here have a lift. This is the newest and best equipped housing stock of the ten neighbourhoods we cover. Here a lift is the norm rather than the exception.
Private landlord or agency. 13% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 87% that come through an agency. As in most of Barcelona, the supply is dominated by agencies.
The median rent in la Dreta de l'Eixample is €2,200 a month. Most flats let for between €1,591 and €2,800 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,591, and another quarter goes above €2,800.
Per square metre that works out at 26.0€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €1,300 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,820, and a 90 m² flat around €2,340.
Against the city as a whole, la Dreta de l'Eixample sits 47% above the Barcelona median (€1,496/month), where the median price per square metre is 22.2€/m².
In la Dreta de l'Eixample, only 10% of listings go below 16.7€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €1,170 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 la Dreta de l'Eixample sits at 19.2€/m². Below that, the price is good for the neighbourhood without being anomalous.
Over the last few months, the price per square metre in la Dreta de l'Eixample has fallen by 5.4% against the previous period.
Based on 590 Idealista listings in la Dreta de l'Eixample 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 la Dreta de l'Eixample is €2,200 a month, which works out at roughly 26€/m². Most flats let for between €1,591 and €2,800 a month. These figures come from 590 Idealista listings over the last few months.
Over the last few months, the price per square metre in la Dreta de l'Eixample has fallen by 5.4% against the previous period. The comparison is based on 292 listings in the earlier period and 298 in the more recent one.
90% of rental homes in la Dreta de l'Eixample have a lift. This is the newest and best equipped housing stock of the ten neighbourhoods we cover. Here a lift is the norm rather than the exception.
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.