Real rental prices and housing mix in Russafa.
Median rent
€1,650/month
Mean: €1,749/month
Price per m²
18.3€
Valencia: 16.7€/m²
Median size
86 m²
Valencia: 88 m²
Listings analyzed
269
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Russafa, often written Ruzafa in Spanish, is the strip of L'Eixample immediately south of the main train station. It was farmland, then a working-class quarter, and the street plan still shows it: a tight grid around the municipal market, old-school shops at ground level, and above them the densest layer of specialty coffee, coworking spaces, galleries and international restaurants in the city.
If you are arriving as a digital nomad or a young professional, this is where you will meet everyone else who did the same. The centre is a ten minute walk, the nightlife starts at your door and you can work from the corner café. It is priced accordingly: at 1.650€ median and 18,3€ per square metre, it is the most expensive residential neighbourhood we cover, behind only the historic core of Sant Francesc.
The weakness is noise. Living above Carrer de Cadis, Sueca or Cuba on a Saturday is a different experience from living three streets over, so ask which way the flat faces and whether the windows are double glazed. On the upside, one listing in five comes straight from the owner, so dealing without an agency is realistic here.
Transport: metro L3 and L5 (Xàtiva, Colón), Bailén station, and Estació del Nord, the main train station, five minutes away on foot.
36% of rental flats in Russafa have two bedrooms, followed by 30% with three bedrooms. Studios make up 3% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 15%.
Lift. 75% of rental homes here have a lift. Three flats in four have a lift. The stock mixes older walk-up buildings with later blocks and recent refurbishments, so check which floor a flat is on before you book a viewing.
Private landlord or agency. 20% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 80% that come through an agency. That is a middling proportion for Valencia.
The median rent in Russafa is €1,650 a month. Most flats let for between €1,380 and €2,000 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,380, and another quarter goes above €2,000.
Per square metre that works out at 18.3€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €920 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,280, and a 90 m² flat around €1,650.
Against the city as a whole, Russafa sits 14% above the Valencia median (€1,450/month), where the median price per square metre is 16.7€/m².
In Russafa, only 10% of listings go below 13.2€/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 Russafa sits at 14.8€/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 Russafa is €1,650 a month, which works out at roughly 18€/m². Most flats let for between €1,380 and €2,000 a month. These figures come from 269 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Russafa 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.
75% of rental homes in Russafa have a lift. Three flats in four have a lift. The stock mixes older walk-up buildings with later blocks and recent refurbishments, so check which floor a flat is on before you book a viewing.
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.