Real rental prices and housing mix in La Malva-rosa. (officially Playa de la Malvarrosa)
Median rent
€1,300/month
Mean: €1,480/month
Price per m²
16.1€
Valencia: 16.7€/m²
Median size
81 m²
Valencia: 88 m²
Listings analyzed
108
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
La Malva-rosa, which appears in official listings as Playa de la Malvarrosa, is Valencia's beach neighbourhood. The seafront promenade, the sand around the corner, and a street plan that mixes old low houses with blocks built later. In August it is a party. In January it is a quiet, windy village that happens to be inside a city of 800.000 people.
It attracts students who want to live by the sea and accept the commute, and people who have decided that a morning swim outweighs everything else. The numbers are reasonable: 1.300€ median, 81 m², 16,1€ per square metre, with 25% of listings posted directly by the owner.
Two honest warnings before you fall for the postcard. First, a large share of the local stock is aimed at seasonal and holiday lets, so the long-term supply is thinner than it looks and its quality varies a great deal. Second, distance: the centre is genuinely far, and everything runs through the tram. If your life is going to happen in Ciutat Vella, you will get tired of the journey faster than you expect.
Transport: trams L4 and L6 (Eugènia Viñes, La Cadena) to Marítim, where they connect with metro L5 and L7.
45% of rental flats in La Malva-rosa have three bedrooms, followed by 36% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 4% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 10%.
Lift. 59% of rental homes here have a lift. 59% of flats have a lift. La Malva-rosa is low-rise: old houses near the beach mixed with later blocks, and in much of the stock you walk up.
Private landlord or agency. 25% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 75% 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 La Malva-rosa is €1,300 a month. Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,600 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,200, and another quarter goes above €1,600.
Per square metre that works out at 16.1€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €810 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,130, and a 90 m² flat around €1,450.
Against the city as a whole, La Malva-rosa sits 10% below the Valencia median (€1,450/month), where the median price per square metre is 16.7€/m².
In La Malva-rosa, only 10% of listings go below 13.1€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €920 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 Malva-rosa sits at 14.5€/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 La Malva-rosa is €1,300 a month, which works out at roughly 16€/m². Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,600 a month. These figures come from 108 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for La Malva-rosa 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.
59% of rental homes in La Malva-rosa have a lift. 59% of flats have a lift. La Malva-rosa is low-rise: old houses near the beach mixed with later blocks, and in much of the stock you walk up.
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.