Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in Benimaclet.
Median rent
€1,375/month
Mean: €1,439/month
Price per m²
15.0€
Valencia: 17.1€/m²
Median size
90 m²
Valencia: 85 m²
Listings analyzed
102
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Benimaclet was an independent village until the city swallowed it, and the core still has its square, its church and its two-storey houses. Around that core came the blocks of the 1960s and 1970s, and at the northern edge you can still see fragments of the huerta, the market gardens that once surrounded Valencia. The result is an odd combination that works: a village with a metro station inside a capital city.
It is the cheapest genuinely liveable central neighbourhood: 1.300€ median, 15,0€ per square metre, and a typical flat of 90 m². Both the Universitat de València and the Polytechnic are walkable, so the student population sets the rhythm and the market for rooms and shared flats is the deepest in the city. There is a settled alternative scene here too, with social centres, neighbourhood bars and a genuine sense of community.
The drawbacks are predictable. It is not the centre and it has none of Russafa's polish; the buildings are plain and often unrenovated; and every September the competition for a decent flat spikes, because the entire student body is looking at once.
Transport: metro L3 (Benimaclet, Machado) and trams L4 and L6, with both universities within walking distance.
57% of rental flats in Benimaclet have three bedrooms, followed by 8% with one bedroom. Studios make up 2% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 30%.
Lift. 78% of rental homes here have a lift. At 77%, lifts are common but not guaranteed. The old village core is made of low walk-up buildings; the 1960s and 1970s blocks that grew around it do have lifts.
Private landlord or agency. 19% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 81% that come through an agency. That is a middling proportion for Valencia.
The median rent in Benimaclet is €1,375 a month. Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,600 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,200, and another quarter goes above €1,600.
Per square metre that works out at 15.0€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €750 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,050, and a 90 m² flat around €1,350.
Against the city as a whole, Benimaclet sits 2% below the Valencia median (€1,400/month), where the median price per square metre is 17.1€/m².
In Benimaclet, only 10% of listings go below 11.3€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €790 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 Benimaclet sits at 12.9€/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 Valencia, 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 Benimaclet is €1,375 a month, which works out at roughly 15€/m². Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,600 a month. These figures come from 102 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Benimaclet 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.
78% of rental homes in Benimaclet have a lift. At 77%, lifts are common but not guaranteed. The old village core is made of low walk-up buildings; the 1960s and 1970s blocks that grew around it do have lifts.
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.