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Owning a 90 m² home costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the appraised value; rent is the mean of new leases. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
€965
Owning per month
€896

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Starting from the average appraised value of €2,814/m², and the mean rent of leases signed in 2024, €10.7/m² a month, in Premià de Mar, and a mortgage rate of 3.0%.

Assumptions
90
3
1
Property tax (IBI), insurance, maintenance and the community of owners.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Transfer tax or VAT, stamp duty, notary and land registry, paid once.

Owning costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€965
Owning a month, not recovered
€889
Interest
€570
Running costs
€211
Return given up
€108
Cash out a month, if buying
€1,172

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are the mean rent of leases signed in the year, from landlords' income tax returns (AEAT); prices are appraised values, not sale prices.

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At the average appraised value, a 90 m² home costs €253,287. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €966 a month. Spain sets no cap on the payment; lenders must assess each borrower's solvency.

Payment, two incomes
25%
Payment, one income
51%

Figures for Barcelona province: Premià de Mar has no reliable figures of its own.

16.6% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
12,400

Figures for Barcelona province: Premià de Mar has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q2 2026.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
1.8%

Appraised values have fallen by 3% or more 2 times since 2005. The deepest began in Q2 2008.

Deepest fall
−47.6%
Recovery from the low
132 months

4.3% of the 12,313 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
4.3%
Empty homes
534