Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in Cruz de Humilladero.
Median rent
€1,200/month
Mean: €1,278/month
Price per m²
14.6€
Málaga: 15.8€/m²
Median size
82 m²
Málaga: 80 m²
Listings analyzed
41
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Cruz de Humilladero is big, dense and central-adjacent without being central. It contains La Unión, Portada Alta and Camino de Antequera: residential blocks, real shops, no postcard.
It is the cheapest of the six districts. The median rent is 1,118€ at 14.5€/m², on a median flat of 80 m², which is exactly the citywide median size. Put plainly, you pay less here for the same amount of home than anywhere else in Málaga.
This is where priced-out locals and newcomers on a budget actually land. It has almost no presence in expat marketing, and that is precisely why it is good value: international demand has not arrived to push the prices up. It also has the highest share of private landlords in the study, 24%, so it is one of the few parts of the city where you have a fair chance of dealing with an owner instead of an agency. The downsides are honest ones. The lift rate, 72%, is the lowest of the six, and the district will never sell itself to you on charm.
Transport: metro line 1 with several stops inside the district, running to the centre one way and the university the other, plus a dense city bus network.
44% of rental flats in Cruz de Humilladero have three bedrooms, followed by 37% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 0% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 12%.
Lift. 90% of rental homes here have a lift. This is the lowest rate of the six: much of the district is modest mid-century blocks built without a lift, so nearly three flats in ten are walk-ups.
Private landlord or agency. 18% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 82% that come through an agency. That is a middling proportion for Málaga.
The median rent in Cruz de Humilladero is €1,200 a month. Most flats let for between €1,100 and €1,400 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,100, and another quarter goes above €1,400.
Per square metre that works out at 14.6€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €730 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,020, and a 90 m² flat around €1,310.
Against the city as a whole, Cruz de Humilladero sits 5% below the Málaga median (€1,268/month), where the median price per square metre is 15.8€/m².
In Cruz de Humilladero, only 10% of listings go below 11.4€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €800 a month or less, it is below the 10th percentile for the district.
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 Cruz de Humilladero sits at 13.2€/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 Málaga, 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 Cruz de Humilladero is €1,200 a month, which works out at roughly 15€/m². Most flats let for between €1,100 and €1,400 a month. These figures come from 41 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Cruz de Humilladero 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.
90% of rental homes in Cruz de Humilladero have a lift. This is the lowest rate of the six: much of the district is modest mid-century blocks built without a lift, so nearly three flats in ten are walk-ups.
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.