Real rental prices and housing mix in El Cabanyal. (officially El Cabanyal-El Canyamelar)
Median rent
€1,350/month
Mean: €1,471/month
Price per m²
18.1€
Valencia: 16.7€/m²
Median size
76 m²
Valencia: 88 m²
Listings analyzed
263
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
El Cabanyal, officially El Cabanyal-El Canyamelar, is the old fishing quarter that sits directly behind the beach. It kept the layout of the fishermen's houses: low buildings, straight streets running down to the sea, and the tiled façades that are the most photographed thing in Valencia after the Ciutat de les Arts.
After decades of neglect and a demolition plan that was never fully carried out, the neighbourhood is mid-gentrification. Artists, nomads and coworking spaces have arrived while the original residents are still very much here, and that overlap is precisely what draws people. It also has the highest share of private landlords of the ten: almost a third of listings come from the owner, a proportion you will not find in Barcelona.
The case for it is a three minute walk to the sand and an atmosphere that exists nowhere else in the city. The case against is equally concrete: the centre is roughly twenty minutes by tram, the housing stock is old and walk-up, and the standard of renovation swings wildly from one house to the next. Visit before you commit.
Transport: tram L4 (Les Arenes, Doctor Lluch) and metro L5 and L7 at Marítim, plus the Cabanyal commuter rail station.
33% of rental flats in El Cabanyal have two bedrooms, followed by 27% with one bedroom. Studios make up 5% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 9%.
Lift. 37% of rental homes here have a lift. Only 37% of flats have a lift, the lowest figure of the ten neighbourhoods. El Cabanyal is low-rise fishermen's housing, one or two storeys, built long before lifts. 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 Valencia, so this is where you have the best chance of dealing with an owner directly.
The median rent in El Cabanyal is €1,350 a month. Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,607 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,200, and another quarter goes above €1,607.
Per square metre that works out at 18.1€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €910 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,270, and a 90 m² flat around €1,630.
Against the city as a whole, El Cabanyal sits 7% below the Valencia median (€1,450/month), where the median price per square metre is 16.7€/m².
In El Cabanyal, 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 El Cabanyal sits at 15.0€/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 El Cabanyal is €1,350 a month, which works out at roughly 18€/m². Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,607 a month. These figures come from 263 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for El Cabanyal 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.
37% of rental homes in El Cabanyal have a lift. Only 37% of flats have a lift, the lowest figure of the ten neighbourhoods. El Cabanyal is low-rise fishermen's housing, one or two storeys, built long before lifts. Expect stairs.
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.