Data report · June 2026
Catalan property, by the numbers.
A standing digest of what the official record says about buying in Catalonia as a foreigner — foreign demand, rent control and prices. Every figure is sourced; nothing is estimated. We re-issue it when the underlying sources publish.
foreign-buyer share in Girona, the highest of the published provinces (2024).
of 947 municipalities are rent-controlled zonas tensionadas.
average price per m² in Catalonia (MIVAU 2025); Spain €2,153.
1. Foreign demand, by province
Colegio de Registradores — Estadística Registral Inmobiliaria, Anuario 2024. Lleida not separately published.
2. Rent control, by province
Declared zonas tensionadas of all municipalities. Generalitat de Catalunya (TER/800/2024 + TER/2408/2024).
3. Prices, by province
Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana — precio de vivienda libre por provincia (2025). Provincial averages; city prices vary.
4. Barcelona’s income spread
Within the city of Barcelona, average disposable income per person ranges from about €11,797 to €41,344 across its neighbourhoods — a near 4× gap that shapes which areas hold value.
Open Data BCN — disposable income per capita, 2022 (Idescat).
Methodology & cadence
Every figure is taken directly from an official publication and cited inline; where a source does not publish a value (e.g. Lleida’s foreign-buyer share) we show “No data” rather than estimate. The page derives its numbers from the same datasets that power our Trust Reports, so it updates automatically. We review it monthly and re-issue when Registradores (annual), MIVAU (quarterly) or the Generalitat (as zones are declared) publish new figures.
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