Real rental prices, housing mix and market trend in el Fort Pienc.
Median rent
€1,690/month
Mean: €1,749/month
Price per m²
22.6€
Barcelona: 22.2€/m²
Trend
Stable
€/m² vs previous period
Listings analyzed
119
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
El Fort Pienc is the quiet Eixample. It occupies the triangle between the Arc de Triomf, the old Estació del Nord and Sagrada Família, and for most people it is somewhere you pass through rather than stop. That works in its favour: it has the transport and the buildings of the Eixample without the crowds.
It is deliberately unspectacular. There are schools, public facilities, the park at the Estació del Nord and a calm, unremarkable street life. It attracts families and professionals who already know Barcelona and are looking for stability rather than atmosphere. Four in ten flats have three bedrooms, the highest proportion of any central neighbourhood we cover.
The strength is that calm, five minutes on foot from the centre, with more housing supply than its size suggests. The weakness is that it has almost no identity of its own. You will not find the square life of Gràcia here, nor the independent shops of Sant Antoni. It is a place to live rather than a place to be from.
Transport: metro L1 (Arc de Triomf, Marina), L4 (Girona) and the Estació del Nord bus terminal.
41% of rental flats in el Fort Pienc have three bedrooms, followed by 21% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 7% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 12%.
Lift. 89% of rental homes here have a lift. A mix of Eixample buildings and newer blocks, with a lift in almost nine out of ten flats.
Private landlord or agency. 19% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 81% that come through an agency. That is a middling proportion for Barcelona.
The median rent in el Fort Pienc is €1,690 a month. Most flats let for between €1,297 and €2,150 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,297, and another quarter goes above €2,150.
Per square metre that works out at 22.6€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €1,130 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,580, and a 90 m² flat around €2,030.
Against the city as a whole, el Fort Pienc sits 13% above the Barcelona median (€1,496/month), where the median price per square metre is 22.2€/m².
In el Fort Pienc, only 10% of listings go below 15.8€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €1,110 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 Fort Pienc sits at 17.8€/m². Below that, the price is good for the neighbourhood without being anomalous.
The price per square metre in el Fort Pienc has held steady over the last few months, moving only 0.2% against the previous period. That is too small a difference to read as a real market move.
Based on 119 Idealista listings in el Fort Pienc 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 Fort Pienc is €1,690 a month, which works out at roughly 23€/m². Most flats let for between €1,297 and €2,150 a month. These figures come from 119 Idealista listings over the last few months.
The price per square metre in el Fort Pienc has held steady over the last few months, moving only 0.2% against the previous period. That is too small a difference to read as a real market move. The comparison is based on 53 listings in the earlier period and 65 in the more recent one.
89% of rental homes in el Fort Pienc have a lift. A mix of Eixample buildings and newer blocks, with a lift in almost nine out of ten flats.
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.