Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in Chueca. (officially Chueca-Justicia)
Median rent
€1,900/month
Mean: €2,262/month
Price per m²
34.8€
Madrid: 26.8€/m²
Median size
61 m²
Madrid: 62 m²
Listings analyzed
207
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Chueca, officially Chueca-Justicia, is the historic LGBTQ+ quarter of Madrid and remains its main social hub. The square that gives it its name, along with Hortaleza, Fuencarral and Pelayo, holds a concentration of design shops, restaurants and bars that never really lets up. The Justicia half, towards Alonso Martínez, is considerably calmer than the neighbourhood's reputation suggests.
It draws foreign residents, young couples and well-paid professionals, and the flats are often the most design-conscious in central Madrid. The pricing follows: a median of 1,780€ for 65 m² puts it in the city's upper bracket. One figure stands out. Just 3% of listings come from a private landlord, the lowest share of the ten neighbourhoods here. In Chueca you rent through an agency, effectively without exception.
The price of the atmosphere is noise, constant around the square, and clear exposure to tourism. If you want the location without the volume, look at the Justicia streets before you look at Chueca itself.
Transport: metro lines L5 (Chueca), L1 and L5 (Gran Vía), L4, L5 and L10 (Alonso Martínez) and L2 (Banco de España).
36% of rental flats in Chueca have one bedroom, followed by 34% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 23% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 0%.
Lift. 73% of rental homes here have a lift. Seven in ten flats have a lift: many old buildings have been heavily renovated for the rental market, but the narrowest ones still do without.
Private landlord or agency. 10% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 90% that come through an agency. As in most of Madrid, the supply is dominated by agencies.
The median rent in Chueca is €1,900 a month. Most flats let for between €1,690 and €2,800 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,690, and another quarter goes above €2,800.
Per square metre that works out at 34.8€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €1,740 a month, a 70 m² flat around €2,440, and a 90 m² flat around €3,130.
Against the city as a whole, Chueca sits 19% above the Madrid median (€1,600/month), where the median price per square metre is 26.8€/m².
In Chueca, only 10% of listings go below 22.9€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €1,600 a month or less, it is below the 10th percentile for the neighbourhood.
That does not make it a scam, but it is worth checking before you go any further. A price well below the local market is the single most common red flag in rental fraud.
For reference, the 25th percentile in Chueca sits at 27.3€/m². Below that, the price is good for the area without being anomalous.
We check that our sample can support a trend before publishing one, and right now it cannot. At the number of listings we analyse per period in Madrid, splitting that same data in half at random already produces swings of more than 15%, with no change in the market at all. Any percentage we published would describe the size of our sample rather than rents.
The prices on this page are unaffected: a median needs far less history than a trend does. We will publish the change again once we can compare two long periods on the same coverage.
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The median rent in Chueca is €1,900 a month, which works out at roughly 35€/m². Most flats let for between €1,690 and €2,800 a month. These figures come from 207 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Chueca yet. We check that the sample supports one, and for now it does not: the change we would calculate falls inside the margin of error of the sample itself. The median and percentiles on this page are sound.
73% of rental homes in Chueca have a lift. Seven in ten flats have a lift: many old buildings have been heavily renovated for the rental market, but the narrowest ones still do without.
Expect to be asked for your NIE (Número de Identificación de Extranjero) if you are a foreigner, your last few payslips or proof of income, your employment contract, and increasingly a bank guarantee or several months of deposit. None of it is a legal requirement of the contract itself, but applicants who turn up without the paperwork ready lose the flat to someone who has it. Assemble the folder before you start viewing.