El Diario de la Vivienda

Resale housing in Sabadell has an average appraised value of €2,421/m². For an 80 m² flat, that comes to €193,700.

The figure isn't drawn from listing prices: it comes from 1,010 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 €3,021/m², 25% above resale.

Among the twelve municipalities this paper tracks, Sabadell is the 10th most expensive to buy in.

An 80 m² flat is valued at €183,200 in Terrassa and €193,700 in Sabadell: a €10,500 gap in Terrassa's favour.

Where they do split is on yield: Terrassa returns 0.4 points less a year (5.0% versus 5.4%).

On rent, Terrassa signs at €765 a month and Sabadell at €869: a €104 gap across 1,457 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.

The average contracted rent in Rubí is €816 a month.

The figure comes from INCASÒL and is calculated over 188 contracts with the deposit already lodged. In other words: rents actually signed, not prices asked for — the gap between the two usually runs to several dozen euros.

That's €321 a month less than Barcelona's average (€1,137).

It's the 7th most expensive of the twelve municipalities this paper tracks.

A standard residential lease runs five years if the landlord is a private individual and seven if it's a company, with rent updated against the index set by Spain's statistics institute (INE).

An 80 m² flat in Sant Cugat is valued at €402,900. Rented at €1,476 a month, that generates €17,712 a year — so buying equals 22.7 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.

Sant Cugat is the most expensive of the twelve municipalities in the area, and the most expensive to rent. Where those two rankings don't match is where the opportunities tend to sit.