Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in la Vila de Gràcia.
Median rent
€1,280/month
Mean: €1,462/month
Price per m²
20.7€
Barcelona: 20.8€/m²
Trend
Not published
€/m² vs previous period
Listings analyzed
104
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 Vila de Gràcia.
La Vila de Gràcia is the closest thing Barcelona has to a village inside the city. It was a separate municipality until 1897 and it never quite stopped behaving like one: narrow streets that ignore the grid, squares where people actually sit and read, and a neighbourhood life that has survived the tourism.
Year after year it is the expat favourite, and specifically the favourite of expats who end up staying. It attracts creatives, freelancers, young professionals and couples who want atmosphere without the noise of the old town. The flats are genuinely small: four in ten have two bedrooms, and barely 3% have four or more, the lowest figure of the ten. If you are moving with a family, Gràcia is probably not your neighbourhood.
Rents sit well below the Eixample, but the competition is ferocious. The main drawback is the buildings themselves, where lifts are the minority, and the summer noise from the squares, which is considerable if your window faces one.
Transport: metro L3 (Fontana, Lesseps) and L4 (Joanic), plus the FGC commuter line at Gràcia.
36% of rental flats in la Vila de Gràcia have one bedroom, followed by 34% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 8% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 11%.
Lift. 57% of rental homes here have a lift. Gràcia was an independent town until 1897 and the buildings still show it: low, narrow blocks that predate the lift. Expect stairs.
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 la Vila de Gràcia is €1,280 a month. Most flats let for between €1,100 and €1,600 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,100, and another quarter goes above €1,600.
Per square metre that works out at 20.7€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €1,040 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,450, and a 90 m² flat around €1,860.
Against the city as a whole, la Vila de Gràcia sits 8% below the Barcelona median (€1,398/month), where the median price per square metre is 20.8€/m².
In la Vila de Gràcia, only 10% of listings go below 13.0€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €910 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 Vila de Gràcia sits at 16.0€/m². Below that, the price is good for the neighbourhood without being anomalous.
We do not publish a price trend for la Vila de Gràcia. 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 104 Idealista listings in la Vila de Gràcia 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 Vila de Gràcia is €1,280 a month, which works out at roughly 21€/m². Most flats let for between €1,100 and €1,600 a month. These figures come from 104 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for la Vila de Gràcia. 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.
57% of rental homes in la Vila de Gràcia have a lift. Gràcia was an independent town until 1897 and the buildings still show it: low, narrow blocks that predate the lift. Expect stairs.
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.