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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
€890
Owning per month
€834

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Starting from the average appraised value of €2,619/m², and the mean rent of leases signed in 2024, €9.9/m² a month, in Sant Andreu de la Barca, 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
€890
Owning a month, not recovered
€827
Interest
€530
Running costs
€196
Return given up
€100
Cash out a month, if buying
€1,091

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 €235,746. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €899 a month. Spain sets no cap on the payment; lenders must assess each borrower's solvency.

Payment, two incomes
23%
Payment, one income
46%

Figures for Barcelona province: Sant Andreu de la Barca 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: Sant Andreu de la Barca 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 once since 2020. That fall began in Q2 2020.

Deepest fall
−3.8%
Recovery from the low
12 months

4.0% of the 10,536 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
4.0%
Empty homes
418