Real rental prices and housing mix in Ciutat Jardí.
Median rent
€1,550/month
Mean: €1,580/month
Price per m²
15.0€
Valencia: 16.7€/m²
Median size
104 m²
Valencia: 88 m²
Listings analyzed
163
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Ciutat Jardí, in the Algirós district, is Valencia's university corridor. The Tarongers campus of the Universitat de València sits on one side and the Polytechnic on the other, with wide streets, generous pavements, parks and orderly apartment blocks in between. Nobody would call it beautiful. Almost everybody who lives here calls it easy.
It is the simplest place in the city to find a room in a shared flat, and the tenant profile follows: students, PhD researchers, university staff, and families who arrived that way years ago and stayed. The flats are the largest of the ten neighbourhoods at 104 m², and a lift is close to universal. That resolves the apparent contradiction in the numbers: 15,0€ per square metre, among the lowest here, yet a 1.550€ median, because what you rent is floor area.
What it lacks is character. Outside term time it is quiet to the point of dull, and the supply is heavily professionalised, with only 13% of listings from private owners. If you want street life and a handshake deal with a landlord, this is the wrong part of Valencia.
Transport: trams L4 and L6 along Avinguda dels Tarongers (Universitat Politècnica) and metro L5 and L7 at Amistat-Casa de Salut.
37% of rental flats in Ciutat Jardí have three bedrooms, followed by 9% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 1% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 49%.
Lift. 96% of rental homes here have a lift. 96% of flats have a lift, the highest figure of the ten. This is almost entirely post-war and 1960s to 1970s blocks, built when lifts were already standard.
Private landlord or agency. 13% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 87% that come through an agency. As in most of Valencia, the supply is dominated by agencies.
The median rent in Ciutat Jardí is €1,550 a month. Most flats let for between €1,300 and €1,750 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,300, and another quarter goes above €1,750.
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, Ciutat Jardí sits 7% above the Valencia median (€1,450/month), where the median price per square metre is 16.7€/m².
In Ciutat Jardí, only 10% of listings go below 12.2€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €850 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 Ciutat Jardí sits at 13.3€/m². Below that, the price is good for the area without being anomalous.
We widened our Valencia coverage in mid-June and went from analyzing around 370 listings a week to more than 1,000. That is a change in what we look at, not a change in the market. Comparing the earlier period against the recent one would measure our own expansion rather than rents, so we are not publishing a Valencia trend yet.
The prices on this page are sound. The median price per square metre is identical before and after the expansion (16.7€/m²), so the larger sample describes the same market, only better. We will publish a trend as soon as we have two 28-day periods on the same coverage, which should be from August.
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The median rent in Ciutat Jardí is €1,550 a month, which works out at roughly 15€/m². Most flats let for between €1,300 and €1,750 a month. These figures come from 163 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Ciutat Jardí yet. We widened our Valencia coverage in mid-June, and comparing the two periods would measure that change in coverage rather than the market. The prices on this page are unaffected: the median price per square metre in Valencia is the same before and after the expansion.
96% of rental homes in Ciutat Jardí have a lift. 96% of flats have a lift, the highest figure of the ten. This is almost entirely post-war and 1960s to 1970s blocks, built when lifts were already standard.
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.