Ten years of prices: Barcelona rose, its neighbours rose faster
Between 2015 and 2025, the price per m² rose 62% in the city and a median 75% around it. 61 of 83 towns outpaced it.
The essentials
- Barcelona: +62% in price per m² between 2015 and 2025.
- The towns around it: a median +75%. 61 of 83 rose faster than the city.
- The steepest rises came where prices started lowest.
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The property tax on an average home, the real price per m², minutes to Barcelona and how it compares with its neighbours.
For years we've told ourselves the same story: Barcelona sets the price and everywhere else follows at a distance, like an echo. The sales registers tell a different one.
Over the last decade the steepest rises came in towns that started out in 2015 far below the city. Start at the bottom and there are more stairs ahead of you.
- Sant Celoni€949/m² → €2,029/m²+114%
- Argentona€1,435/m² → €2,955/m²+106%
- Esparreguera€1,120/m² → €2,291/m²+105%
- Barberà del Vallès€1,344/m² → €2,701/m²+101%
- Vilassar de Mar€2,000/m² → €3,975/m²+99%
- Alella€2,003/m² → €3,974/m²+98%
- Rubí€1,166/m² → €2,296/m²+97%
- Sant Feliu de Llobregat€1,776/m² → €3,484/m²+96%
- El Masnou€1,937/m² → €3,799/m²+96%
- Sant Cugat del Vallès€2,754/m² → €5,340/m²+94%
- Barcelona cityreference+62%
Then there's Sitges, the exception that proves the rule: the town with the highest price per m² around the city (€5,481/m² in 2025), and still among the five that rose least. When you start at the top, there's less mountain left to climb.
- Sentmenat€1,559/m² → €1,999/m²+28%
- Lliçà d'Amunt€1,301/m² → €1,794/m²+38%
- Cabrils€2,056/m² → €2,892/m²+41%
- Sant Andreu de Llavaneres€2,274/m² → €3,203/m²+41%
- Sitges€3,873/m² → €5,481/m²+42%
Today's price is a snapshot. The curve is the film.
How we worked it out
Average price per built m² of resale homes, from registered sales, in 2015 and 2025. Only towns with 40 or more sales in each of the two years are included, so that one sale can't skew the figure. The median is across those 83 towns, Barcelona city excluded. Calculated by Verithic.
- Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria d'Habitatge — compravendes d'habitatge registrades · read 3 November 2026
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