Barcelona · Sabadell · Terrassa · Rubí · Sant Cugat · Cerdanyola
Edition of · Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Vallès
Sabadell’s municipal taxes will rise in 2027, although by less than the CPI inflation rate. The increase will also affect waste charges, paid parking zones and vehicle access permits, among other items.
Vallès
Sabadell’s federation of neighbourhood associations has backed the so-called Maricarmen decree and is calling for more public housing and measures to curb rising rents. It says the city’s average rent has reached €869 after two years of increases and wants planned projects in Can Gambús to move faster.
Vallès
Terrassa has begun the process to allocate 106 protected affordable-rent homes in Can Colomer, with rents announced from €358. Eligible applicants are those already registered in the official protected housing applicants’ register and who meet the published requirements.
Vallès
Rubí will mark World Habitat Day with the “Let’s talk about housing” programme throughout October. The initiative brings together activities focused on the debate over access to housing.
Vallès
An opinion piece on housing argues that the debate is too driven by ideology and lacks concrete solutions.
Barcelona
Around one hundred people have started a protest camp in Barcelona’s Plaça de Catalunya to demand the right to housing. The Habitatge Incondicional movement has pitched tents in the square and is calling on more residents to join, in a protest coinciding with other demonstrations and Pedro Sánchez’s visit to the city.
Catalonia
Salvador Illa announced in Catalonia’s general policy debate an anti-eviction fund of €25 million to buy homes from vulnerable people with no alternative, as well as shared and temporary purchases between public authorities and citizens unable to pay a deposit, and an expansion of youth emancipation loans. Junts, ERC, Comuns, CUP, PP and Vox criticised the proposals as insufficient, unclear or misdirected.
Catalonia
Catalonia is described as the Spanish region that has intervened most in the housing market, with measures linked to the Housing Act and others approved by the Generalitat, the Catalan government. These include caps on seasonal rentals, after which this type of letting has fallen, although rising rents and social opposition to evictions remain central issues.
Catalonia
The eviction of Jordi and his family has been carried out in the Cerdanyola neighbourhood of Mataró. A person with a disability lived in the home.
Spain
Spain’s Council of Ministers has approved, after an agreement between PSOE and Sumar, two housing decrees including extended protection against evictions of vulnerable families until 2030, new lease extensions and automatic renewals, limits on rent rises and restrictions on home purchases by investors or funds. The package also includes proposed tax breaks for landlords, support for tenants and 0% loans for first homes, with a vote still pending in Congress. In Terrassa, the city council sees regulation as necessary, the Tenants’ Union welcomes street pressure, landlords warn of less rental supply, and Alberto Núñez Feijóo says the decrees will not solve the problem and proposes building one million homes and offering incentives to young people.
Spain
The protest camp in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol has drawn thousands of people under the message that they will stay in the square. In Palma, around fifty people joined an assembly discussing the split housing decrees, a possible general strike and further mobilisations.
Spain
The Balearic Housing Observatory puts Ibiza’s accumulated housing deficit at 43.18%. Over the past 25 years, the island’s population has grown by almost 83%, while its housing stock has risen by about 40%.
International
Asking prices for flats advertised on property portals appear higher in Andorra than in Barcelona. However, completed sales show a different comparison.
International
Portugal’s conservative government proposes cutting from three to two months the arrears period that allows a rental contract to be terminated. Tenants’ organisations oppose the measure.
RENT · PROVINCE OF BARCELONA
16,594 contracts with a deposit lodged this quarter, across 38 municipalities.
The average contracted rent across the province of Barcelona is €997 a month. That's not what's asked for in listings: it's 16,594 contracts with the deposit already lodged with INCASÒL this quarter.
The average hides a wide spread. Among the 38 municipalities with data, the most expensive square metre is in Sant Cugat and the cheapest in Manresa: a 224% gap on purchase price.
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 published by Spain's statistics institute (INE).
Buying that same 80 m² flat costs €273,100: 22.8 years of rent.
Barcelona and much of its metropolitan area are designated a stressed residential market zone. On a flat that was already rented before, that caps how much the new contract's rent can rise over the previous one — it's not a rare exception, it affects most of the flats on offer in the province today.
What actually protects a landlord isn't the asking price, it's who gets handed the keys: a verified payslip, a checked payment history and a properly drafted contract head off most problems before they start. Raising the rent by €20 and losing three months to arrears doesn't pay off.
Source: Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana and INCASÒL, Primer trimestre de 2026 · 38 municipalities in the province of Barcelona. Resale housing figures, unaltered.
Mollet · Comparison
The two towns, same sources, same quarter.
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.
Source: Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana and INCASÒL, Primer trimestre de 2026 · resale housing. Resale housing figures, unaltered.
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda · Rent
The average rent from contracts with a deposit lodged this quarter — not what's asked for in listings.
The average contracted rent in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda is €745 a month.
The figure comes from INCASÒL and is calculated over 51 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 €392 a month less than Barcelona's average (€1,137).
It's the 10th 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).
Source: INCASÒL, 1T 2026 · 51 contracts. Resale housing figures, unaltered.
Granollers · Affordability
How many years of rent equal the purchase price, before interest or fees.
An 80 m² flat in Granollers is valued at €202,100. Rented at €826 a month, that generates €9,912 a year — so buying equals 20.4 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.
Granollers is the 5th most expensive of the twelve municipalities in the area, and the 6th most expensive to rent. Where those two rankings don't match is where the opportunities tend to sit.
Source: Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana and INCASÒL, Primer trimestre de 2026. Resale housing figures, unaltered.
Barcelona · Yield
A €374,000 purchase against €13,644 a year in rent.
An 80 m² flat in Barcelona is valued at €374,000, and its average rent is €1,137 a month — €13,644 a year. That works out to a gross yield of 3.6%.
Gross means before anything else: council tax (IBI), community fees, insurance, one-off building charges, income tax on the rent, and any months the flat sits empty. Net yield lands well below that.
It's the 12th most of the twelve municipalities in the area. Worth distrusting the shortcut of always going for the highest yield: high yield tends to travel with low prices, and low prices with weaker rental demand and higher turnover.
The figure is for comparing municipalities against each other, not for deciding on a purchase. A specific flat can yield well above or well below its city's average.
Source: Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana and INCASÒL, Primer trimestre de 2026. Resale housing figures, unaltered.
| Municipality | 80 m² flat | Rent | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sant Cugat | 402,900 € | 1,476 € | 4.4 % |
| Barcelona | 374,000 € | 1,137 € | 3.6 % |
| Cerdanyola | 233,500 € | 906 € | 4.7 % |
| Barberà | 206,800 € | 857 € | 5.0 % |
| Granollers | 202,100 € | 826 € | 4.9 % |
| Ripollet | 198,400 € | 751 € | 4.5 % |
| Santa Perpètua de Mogoda | 198,000 € | 745 € | 4.5 % |
| Mollet | 196,200 € | 721 € | 4.4 % |
| Rubí | 196,100 € | 816 € | 5.0 % |
| Sabadell | 193,700 € | 869 € | 5.4 % |
| Montcada i Reixac | 184,800 € | 663 € | 4.3 % |
| Terrassa | 183,200 € | 765 € | 5.0 % |
Appraised value of resale housing (Ministry of Housing) and average rent from contracts with a deposit lodged (INCASÒL). Gross yield is annual rent over purchase price, before council tax, community fees, insurance, other taxes and vacant months.