Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample.
Median rent
€1,444/month
Mean: €1,680/month
Price per m²
21.0€
Barcelona: 20.8€/m²
Trend
Not published
€/m² vs previous period
Listings analyzed
84
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Long-term rentals are scarce in Barcelona: Idealista reports that the city's rental supply is down 90% since 2020 (Idealista News, 24 March 2026). The average rent of new contracts in Barcelona city was 1,137.35 euros a month in Q1 2026 (Incasòl data, Catalan News, 13 July 2026); this is a city-level average of signed contracts, not a figure for la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample.
The Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample is the part of the grid nobody photographs and a lot of people end up living in. It runs from Urgell across to Tarragona, up against Sants, and it is the most residential and least touristy stretch of the whole Eixample.
There is no Gaudí here and no Instagram terraces. There are supermarkets, pharmacies, the Hospital Clínic, and families who have been in the same building for decades. Tenants are professionals and families who want the convenience of the Eixample, its transport and its logical street plan, without paying the premium for being next to Passeig de Gràcia. Three in ten flats have three bedrooms, which is a high proportion for central Barcelona.
Its real strength is the buildings: newer than in Ciutat Vella or Gràcia, with a lift in nine out of ten cases and generous floor areas. The weakness is character. It is a comfortable neighbourhood, but it has no strong identity of its own and no nightlife worth the name.
Transport: metro L1 (Rocafort, Urgell), L5 (Hospital Clínic, Entença) and L3 (Sants Estació).
33% of rental flats in la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample have three bedrooms, followed by 29% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 5% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 11%.
Lift. 93% of rental homes here have a lift. Post-war and 1960s to 1970s blocks, with a lift in almost every building.
Private landlord or agency. 30% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 70% 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 la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample is €1,444 a month. Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,815 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,200, and another quarter goes above €1,815.
Per square metre that works out at 21.0€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €1,050 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,470, and a 90 m² flat around €1,890.
Against the city as a whole, la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample sits 3% above the Barcelona median (€1,398/month), where the median price per square metre is 20.8€/m².
In la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample, only 10% of listings go below 14.3€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €1,000 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 Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample sits at 15.9€/m². Below that, the price is good for the neighbourhood without being anomalous.
We do not publish a price trend for la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample. We check that the sample supports one before publishing it, and at the current size it does not: splitting the same data in half at random already produces swings of more than 15%, with no change in the market. The median and percentiles on this page are sound.
Based on 84 Idealista listings in la Nova Esquerra 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 Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample is €1,444 a month, which works out at roughly 21€/m². Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,815 a month. These figures come from 84 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample. We check that the sample supports one before publishing it, and at the current size it does not: splitting the same data in half at random already produces swings of more than 15%, with no change in the market. The median and percentiles on this page are sound.
93% of rental homes in la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample have a lift. Post-war and 1960s to 1970s blocks, with a lift in almost every building.
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.
Seven questions, in the order most renters ask them.