Real rental prices and housing mix in Sant Francesc.
Median rent
€1,925/month
Mean: €2,071/month
Price per m²
21.1€
Valencia: 16.7€/m²
Median size
90 m²
Valencia: 88 m²
Listings analyzed
152
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Sant Francesc is the elegant centre of Valencia, inside the Ciutat Vella, the old town. It runs from the city hall down to Carrer Colón and Carrer de la Pau: stately buildings, banks, department stores, the Mercat de Colón round the corner and the main train station at its edge. This is the Valencia of old money rather than the Valencia of postcards.
It is by a clear margin the most expensive of the ten neighbourhoods: 1.925€ median, 21,1€ per square metre. It draws professionals, couples without children, senior managers and people relocated by their employer, and the supply is professionalised, with only 19% of listings from private owners.
In its favour: you walk everywhere, you reach any part of the city without thinking about it, and the buildings are among the best maintained in Valencia. Against it: this is not a neighbourhood of neighbours. There is little street life once the shops close, traffic and noise are constant, and you pay an obvious premium for the address. You will live very comfortably here. You will not put down roots.
Transport: metro L3 and L5 (Colón, Xàtiva), the Estació del Nord train station, and effectively every bus line in the city.
38% of rental flats in Sant Francesc have two bedrooms, followed by 23% with one bedroom. Studios make up 7% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 14%.
Lift. 91% of rental homes here have a lift. 91% of flats have a lift. These are grand old buildings and converted offices, most of them rehabilitated and properly equipped.
Private landlord or agency. 19% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 81% that come through an agency. That is a middling proportion for Valencia.
The median rent in Sant Francesc is €1,925 a month. Most flats let for between €1,400 and €2,500 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,400, and another quarter goes above €2,500.
Per square metre that works out at 21.1€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €1,060 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,480, and a 90 m² flat around €1,900.
Against the city as a whole, Sant Francesc sits 33% above the Valencia median (€1,450/month), where the median price per square metre is 16.7€/m².
In Sant Francesc, only 10% of listings go below 12.9€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €900 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 Sant Francesc sits at 18.1€/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 Sant Francesc is €1,925 a month, which works out at roughly 21€/m². Most flats let for between €1,400 and €2,500 a month. These figures come from 152 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Sant Francesc 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.
91% of rental homes in Sant Francesc have a lift. 91% of flats have a lift. These are grand old buildings and converted offices, most of them rehabilitated and properly equipped.
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.