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Owning and renting a 90 m² home cost about the same each month. 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
€888
Owning per month
€854

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Starting from the average appraised value of €2,682/m², and the mean rent of leases signed in 2024, €9.9/m² a month, in Barberà del Vallès, 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 and renting cost about the same each month.

Rent a month
€888
Owning a month, not recovered
€847
Interest
€543
Running costs
€201
Return given up
€103
Cash out a month, if buying
€1,117

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.

Other reports for Barberà del Vallès

At the average appraised value, a 90 m² home costs €241,380. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €921 a month. Spain sets no cap on the payment; lenders must assess each borrower's solvency.

Payment, two incomes
24%
Payment, one income
47%

Figures for Barcelona province: Barberà del Vallès 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: Barberà del Vallès 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 Q4 2007.

Deepest fall
−55.7%
Recovery from the low
Not yet

7.1% of the 13,768 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
7.1%
Empty homes
978