Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in Sant Antoni.
Median rent
€1,500/month
Mean: €1,770/month
Price per m²
19.7€
Barcelona: 20.8€/m²
Trend
Not published
€/m² vs previous period
Listings analyzed
53
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 Sant Antoni.
Sant Antoni has changed more than any other neighbourhood in Barcelona over the past decade, and it is the one nearly every guide now points to as the best balance between central and affordable. The reopening of its market in 2018, after nine years of building works, finished the job.
It sits in the corner of the Eixample where the grid meets the old town and Poble-sec, so you can walk almost anywhere. It draws young professionals, couples, and a growing expat community priced out of Gràcia. Of the ten neighbourhoods here it has the lowest price per square metre in the whole Eixample, and a third of its flats offer three bedrooms.
The strength is that unusual combination: central, genuinely local, and still affordable. The weakness is that the balance is running out. Gentrification is moving fast, rents are climbing, and the Parlament stretch has filled up with brunch spots and visitors. If you arrive now, the bargain that existed five years ago is gone.
Transport: metro L2 (Sant Antoni), L1 and L3 (Espanya, Poble Sec) and L3 (Paral·lel).
40% of rental flats in Sant Antoni have two bedrooms, followed by 30% with three bedrooms. Studios make up 4% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 8%.
Lift. 85% of rental homes here have a lift. Eixample buildings, many recently renovated, with a lift installed in most of them.
Private landlord or agency. 31% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 69% 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 Sant Antoni is €1,500 a month. Most flats let for between €1,190 and €2,100 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,190, and another quarter goes above €2,100.
Per square metre that works out at 19.7€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €980 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,380, and a 90 m² flat around €1,770.
Against the city as a whole, Sant Antoni sits 7% above the Barcelona median (€1,398/month), where the median price per square metre is 20.8€/m².
In Sant Antoni, only 10% of listings go below 12.3€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €860 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 Sant Antoni sits at 15.8€/m². Below that, the price is good for the neighbourhood without being anomalous.
We do not publish a price trend for Sant Antoni. 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 53 Idealista listings in Sant Antoni 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 Sant Antoni is €1,500 a month, which works out at roughly 20€/m². Most flats let for between €1,190 and €2,100 a month. These figures come from 53 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Sant Antoni. 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.
85% of rental homes in Sant Antoni have a lift. Eixample buildings, many recently renovated, with a lift installed in most of them.
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.