Real rental prices, housing mix and market trend in Bailén-Miraflores. (officially Bailén - Miraflores)
Median rent
€1,100/month
Mean: €1,092/month
Price per m²
15.0€
Málaga: 16.0€/m²
Trend
↓ 11.8%
€/m² vs previous period
Listings analyzed
109
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Bailén-Miraflores sits immediately north-west of the centre, close enough to walk in. It gathers La Trinidad, Gamarra, Cruz Verde and Camino de Suárez: working-class, plainly built, lived in rather than visited.
It is the cheap-and-close option. The median rent is 1,100€, the lowest of the six, on a median flat of 75 m², also the smallest. At 15.0€/m² the square metre sits at the city average, so what lowers the bill is the size of the flat and not a discount on the ground beneath it.
You will not find this district in expat guides. You will find it in price tables, and covering it is the whole point of this page. If your budget is tight and your priority is being able to walk into the old town, the arithmetic works here and almost nowhere else. Be clear-eyed about the rest: no international scene, no services built for newcomers, smaller flats than the city median, and neighbours who are getting on with their lives rather than curating a lifestyle. For some readers that is a fair trade, and for others it is not.
Transport: no metro stop; frequent city buses and the old town fifteen to twenty minutes away on foot.
39% of rental flats in Bailén-Miraflores have three bedrooms, followed by 28% with one bedroom. Studios make up 6% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 5%.
Lift. 80% of rental homes here have a lift. The district mixes older buildings around La Trinidad, which have no lift, with later blocks that do, and the balance lands slightly above Centro.
Private landlord or agency. 23% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 77% that come through an agency. That is one of the highest private-landlord shares in Málaga, so this is where you have the best chance of dealing with an owner directly.
The median rent in Bailén-Miraflores is €1,100 a month. Most flats let for between €900 and €1,200 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €900, and another quarter goes above €1,200.
Per square metre that works out at 15.0€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €750 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,050, and a 90 m² flat around €1,350.
Against the city as a whole, Bailén-Miraflores sits 15% below the Málaga median (€1,300/month), where the median price per square metre is 16.0€/m².
In Bailén-Miraflores, only 10% of listings go below 10.3€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €720 a month or less, it is below the 10th percentile for the district.
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 Bailén-Miraflores sits at 12.0€/m². Below that, the price is good for the area without being anomalous.
Over the last few months, the price per square metre in Bailén-Miraflores has fallen by 11.8% against the previous period.
Based on 109 Idealista listings in Bailén-Miraflores 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 Bailén-Miraflores is €1,100 a month, which works out at roughly 15€/m². Most flats let for between €900 and €1,200 a month. These figures come from 109 Idealista listings over the last few months.
Over the last few months, the price per square metre in Bailén-Miraflores has fallen by 11.8% against the previous period. The comparison is based on 53 listings in the earlier period and 56 in the more recent one.
80% of rental homes in Bailén-Miraflores have a lift. The district mixes older buildings around La Trinidad, which have no lift, with later blocks that do, and the balance lands slightly above Centro.
Expect to be asked for your NIE (Número de Identificación de Extranjero) if you are a foreigner, your last few payslips or proof of income, your employment contract, and increasingly a bank guarantee or several months of deposit. None of it is a legal requirement of the contract itself, but applicants who turn up without the paperwork ready lose the flat to someone who has it. Assemble the folder before you start viewing.