El Diario de la Vivienda

An 80 m² flat is valued at €196,200 in Mollet and €202,100 in Granollers. The gap doesn't reach 5%.

Where they do split is on yield: Mollet returns 0.5 points less a year (4.4% versus 4.9%).

On rent, Mollet signs at €721 a month and Granollers at €826: a €105 gap across 363 deposit-lodged contracts between the two.

Comparing towns is useful for orientation, not for pricing. Within a single town, the gap between neighbourhoods is usually bigger than the one between these two.

An 80 m² flat in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda is valued at €198,000. Rented at €745 a month, that generates €8,940 a year — so buying equals 22.1 years of rent.

It's the mirror image of yield: the more years, the more expensive buying is relative to renting. It doesn't include mortgage interest, purchase taxes, or renovation costs, all of which push the figure higher.

As a reference point, Spain's national average has historically moved between 15 and 25 years depending on the cycle.

Santa Perpètua de Mogoda is the 7th most expensive of the twelve municipalities in the area, and the 10th most expensive to rent. Where those two rankings don't match is where the opportunities tend to sit.

Resale housing in Granollers has an average appraised value of €2,526/m². For an 80 m² flat, that comes to €202,100.

The figure isn't drawn from listing prices: it comes from 210 real appraisals carried out in the municipality this quarter and collected by Spain's Ministry of Housing.

Appraised value is the conservative benchmark a bank uses to grant a mortgage. The price a sale actually completes at tends to run higher, and a city-wide average captures neither the floor, the lift, nor the state of the kitchen.

New-build homes are valued at €2,663/m², 5% above resale.

Among the twelve municipalities this paper tracks, Granollers is the 5th most expensive to buy in.

An 80 m² flat is valued at €374,000 in Barcelona and €402,900 in Sant Cugat: a €28,900 gap in Barcelona's favour.

Where they do split is on yield: Barcelona returns 0.7 points less a year (3.6% versus 4.4%).

On rent, Barcelona signs at €1,137 a month and Sant Cugat at €1,476: a €339 gap across 8,490 deposit-lodged contracts between the two.

Comparing towns is useful for orientation, not for pricing. Within a single town, the gap between neighbourhoods is usually bigger than the one between these two.