The average price per square meter of houses in the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Barcelona, amounted to approximately ***** euros in December 2023. During the same time period the value of the square meter in L'Eixample also exceeded ***** euros.

Barcelona was the most expensive city to buy residential real estate in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia in October 2023. The square meter price of residential properties in Barcelona stood at ***** euros in that month, which was substantially higher than the average for the country or the region. Homeownership is important in Spain, with the majority of households living in an owner-occupied home.

After a long period of steady increase in real estate prices in Spain, the market was hit by the global financial crisis of 2007, resulting in the burst of the Spanish property bubble. House prices have since picked up and in 2023, the average square meter price reached 2,809 euros - just slightly below 2008 levels. Though prices have risen across the whole country, some regions, such as the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Madrid, and Andalusia, experienced faster growth than others. Additionally, the gap between newly built and existing home prices has widened. Spain’s real estate market behind others The property market has made great progress, but it is still far off the rest of its European counterparts, and it is positioned, in fact, at the bottom of the European list of the EMF’s house price index, which is led by Czechia and Portugal. Supply is a major factor influencing the price development. Many European countries suffer housing shortages due to sluggish construction activity, and Spain is no exception. In 2022, ranked among the countries with the lowest number of residential construction starts per 1,000 citizens in Europe. Buying vs renting As happens with many other countries, the affordability of buying a home and renting will differ considerably dependent on the area. In 2022, the average Spanish citizen needed between five and 18 years to purchase an average priced property in their region with their full salary, with Murcia and La Rioja being the most affordable regions. The house price to rent index shows that house price growth has been much faster than rental growth. That is good news for homeowners whose homes appreciate over time, but an issue for renters who are yet to purchase a property.

Avg Housing Price: Free Market: Barcelona data was reported at 3,300.100 EUR/sq m in Sep 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,297.300 EUR/sq m for Jun 2018. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: Barcelona data is updated quarterly, averaging 3,071.100 EUR/sq m from Mar 2005 (Median) to Sep 2018, with 55 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,950.200 EUR/sq m in Jun 2008 and a record low of 2,385.200 EUR/sq m in Mar 2014. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: Barcelona data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Public Works. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Spain – Table ES.P003: Housing Prices: Free Market: by Region and Major City.

Estimation of the average sale price of second-hand homes (€/m2) of the Idealista.com portal for each of the neighborhoods of the city of Barcelona.

House prices in Spain have risen year-on-year since 2014. The house price index measures the development of house prices, with 2015 chosen as a base year when the index value was 100. Between 2021 and 2023, the house price index in Spain rose by eight percent for new housing and 3.2 percent for existing housing. Overall, newly built housing has appreciated more than existing homes.

House prices in Spain have grown year-on-year since 2016 and 2023, increasing by almost *** euros per square meter. In October 2023, the average house price per square meter reached ***** euros - almost as high as in 2007 before the global financial crisis hit and the market plummeted.

Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old: Ciudad Real data was reported at 951.800 EUR/sq m in Mar 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 953.500 EUR/sq m for Dec 2017. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old: Ciudad Real data is updated quarterly, averaging 1,041.900 EUR/sq m from Mar 2010 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,730.100 EUR/sq m in Dec 2011 and a record low of 947.400 EUR/sq m in Sep 2014. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old: Ciudad Real data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Public Works. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Spain – Table ES.P003: Housing Prices: Free Market: by Region and Major City.

Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old data was reported at 1,559.400 EUR/sq m in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,550.700 EUR/sq m for Dec 2017. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old data is updated quarterly, averaging 1,517.500 EUR/sq m from Mar 2010 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,835.500 EUR/sq m in Mar 2010 and a record low of 1,445.100 EUR/sq m in Sep 2014. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Public Works. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Spain – Table ES.P003: Housing Prices: Free Market: by Region and Major City.

The house price to income ratio index in Spain increased by about 15 index points between 2015 and the second quarter of 2024. The ratio measures the development of housing affordability and is calculated by dividing nominal house price by nominal disposable income per head, with 2015 set as a base year when the index amounted to 100. Spain's index score in the second quarter of 2024 amounted to 115.5, which means that house price growth has outpaced income growth by more than 15 percent since 2015. This was slightly higher than the Euro area 17 average.

Update 29-04-2020: The data is now split into two files based on the variable collection frequency (monthly and yearly). Additional variables added: area size in hectares, number of jobs in the area, number of people living in the area.

Context

I have been inspired by Xavier and his work on Barcelona to explore the city of London! 🇬🇧 💂

Content

The datasets is primarily centered around the housing market of London. However, it contains a lot of additional relevant data: - Monthly average house prices - Yearly number of houses - Yearly number of houses sold - Yearly percentage of households that recycle - Yearly life satisfaction - Yearly median salary of the residents of the area - Yearly mean salary of the residents of the area - Monthly number of crimes committed - Yearly number of jobs - Yearly number of people living in the area - Area size in hectares

The data is split by areas of London called boroughs (a flag exists to identify these), but some of the variables have other geographical UK regions for reference (like England, North East, etc.). There have been no changes made to the data except for melting it into a long format from the original tables.

Acknowledgements

The data has been extracted from London Datastore. It is released under UK Open Government License v2 and v3. The underlining datasets can be found here: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/uk-house-price-index https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/number-and-density-of-dwellings-by-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/subjective-personal-well-being-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/household-waste-recycling-rates-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/earnings-place-residence-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/recorded_crime_summary https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/jobs-and-job-density-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/ons-mid-year-population-estimates-custom-age-tables

Cover photo by Frans Ruiter from Unsplash

Inspiration

The dataset lends itself for extensive exploratory data analysis. It could also be a great supervised learning regression problem to predict house price changes of different boroughs over time.

Avg Housing Price: Free Market: Less than 5 Years Old: Badajoz data was reported at 1,155.800 EUR/sq m in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,138.600 EUR/sq m for Mar 2016. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: Less than 5 Years Old: Badajoz data is updated quarterly, averaging 1,385.700 EUR/sq m from Mar 2010 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 19 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,617.400 EUR/sq m in Jun 2010 and a record low of 1,097.500 EUR/sq m in Dec 2013. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: Less than 5 Years Old: Badajoz data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Public Works. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Spain – Table ES.P003: Housing Prices: Free Market: by Region and Major City.

Barcelona, Madrid, and Donostia - San Sebastian were some of the most expensive cities to rent a house in Spain in February 2025. Barcelona, which is the capital of Catalonia, led the list with an average price of **** euros per square meter. Madrid followed closely in the second position with an average square meter of rental residential property cost of **** euros.

Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old: Alicante data was reported at 1,122.200 EUR/sq m in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,101.400 EUR/sq m for Dec 2017. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old: Alicante data is updated quarterly, averaging 1,080.400 EUR/sq m from Mar 2010 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,461.800 EUR/sq m in Jun 2010 and a record low of 1,035.000 EUR/sq m in Mar 2014. Avg Housing Price: Free Market: More than 5 Years Old: Alicante data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Public Works. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Spain – Table ES.P003: Housing Prices: Free Market: by Region and Major City.

Analysis of ‘Housing in London’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/justinas/housing-in-london on 28 January 2022.

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Update 29-04-2020: The data is now split into two files based on the variable collection frequency (monthly and yearly). Additional variables added: area size in hectares, number of jobs in the area, number of people living in the area.

Context

I have been inspired by Xavier and his work on Barcelona to explore the city of London! 🇬🇧 💂

Content

The datasets is primarily centered around the housing market of London. However, it contains a lot of additional relevant data: - Monthly average house prices - Yearly number of houses - Yearly number of houses sold - Yearly percentage of households that recycle - Yearly life satisfaction - Yearly median salary of the residents of the area - Yearly mean salary of the residents of the area - Monthly number of crimes committed - Yearly number of jobs - Yearly number of people living in the area - Area size in hectares

The data is split by areas of London called boroughs (a flag exists to identify these), but some of the variables have other geographical UK regions for reference (like England, North East, etc.). There have been no changes made to the data except for melting it into a long format from the original tables.

Acknowledgements

The data has been extracted from London Datastore. It is released under UK Open Government License v2 and v3. The underlining datasets can be found here: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/uk-house-price-index https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/number-and-density-of-dwellings-by-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/subjective-personal-well-being-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/household-waste-recycling-rates-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/earnings-place-residence-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/recorded_crime_summary https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/jobs-and-job-density-borough https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/ons-mid-year-population-estimates-custom-age-tables

Cover photo by Frans Ruiter from Unsplash

Inspiration

The dataset lends itself for extensive exploratory data analysis. It could also be a great supervised learning regression problem to predict house price changes of different boroughs over time.

--- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

The average apartment price in Spain in the first quarter of 2024 was the highest in Madrid, followed by Barcelona. On average, apartments in Barcelona cost ***** euros per square meter. The price of an apartment in the Andalusian city of Seville was significantly less, with an average cost of ***** euros per square meter.

How much more expensive are houses in European capital cities than in the rest of the country? Of all the capital cities in Europe, prices in Paris had the highest disproportion to the national average in 2023. A new house in the French capital cost more than ***** times the price of a house outside the city. This was followed by Barcelona, Munich and Athens.

According to the report, the province of Barcelona had the highest average housing price within the Costa Catalana as of the first quarter of 2022, reaching over ***** euros per square meter. Additionally, home prices in coastal provinces have also been broken down by cheapest and most expensive provinces.

Amsterdam is set to maintain its position as Europe's most expensive city for apartment rentals in 2025, with median costs reaching 2,500 euros per month for a furnished unit. This figure is double the rent in Prague and significantly higher than other major European capitals like Paris, Berlin, and Madrid. The stark difference in rental costs across European cities reflects broader economic trends, housing policies, and the complex interplay between supply and demand in urban centers. Factors driving rental costs across Europe The disparity in rental prices across European cities can be attributed to various factors. In countries like Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, a higher proportion of the population lives in rental housing. This trend contributes to increased demand and potentially higher living costs in these nations. Conversely, many Eastern and Southern European countries have homeownership rates exceeding 90 percent, which may help keep rental prices lower in those regions. Housing affordability and market dynamics The relationship between housing prices and rental rates varies significantly across Europe. As of 2024, countries like Turkey, Iceland, Portugal, and Hungary had the highest house price to rent ratio indices. This indicates a widening gap between property values and rental costs since 2015. The affordability of homeownership versus renting differs greatly among European nations, with some countries experiencing rapid increases in property values that outpace rental growth. These market dynamics influence rental costs and contribute to the diverse rental landscape observed across European cities.

Barcelona was the most expensive city for renting residential real estate in Catalonia, Spain, in October 2023. The average monthly rent stood at **** euros per square meter in that period. Catalonia was one of the priciest provinces for renters in the country. Overall, the majority of households in Spain live in an owner-occupied home.