Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in El Cabanyal. (officially El Cabanyal-El Canyamelar)
Median rent
€1,400/month
Mean: €1,443/month
Price per m²
18.5€
Valencia: 17.1€/m²
Median size
75 m²
Valencia: 85 m²
Listings analyzed
153
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
El Cabanyal, officially El Cabanyal-El Canyamelar, is the old fishing quarter that sits directly behind the beach. It kept the layout of the fishermen's houses: low buildings, straight streets running down to the sea, and the tiled façades that are the most photographed thing in Valencia after the Ciutat de les Arts.
After decades of neglect and a demolition plan that was never fully carried out, the neighbourhood is mid-gentrification. Artists, nomads and coworking spaces have arrived while the original residents are still very much here, and that overlap is precisely what draws people. It also has the highest share of private landlords of the ten: almost a third of listings come from the owner, a proportion you will not find in Barcelona.
The case for it is a three minute walk to the sand and an atmosphere that exists nowhere else in the city. The case against is equally concrete: the centre is roughly twenty minutes by tram, the housing stock is old and walk-up, and the standard of renovation swings wildly from one house to the next. Visit before you commit.
Transport: tram L4 (Les Arenes, Doctor Lluch) and metro L5 and L7 at Marítim, plus the Cabanyal commuter rail station.
35% of rental flats in El Cabanyal have three bedrooms, followed by 34% with two bedrooms. Studios make up 7% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 7%.
Lift. 45% of rental homes here have a lift. Only 37% of flats have a lift, the lowest figure of the ten neighbourhoods. El Cabanyal is low-rise fishermen's housing, one or two storeys, built long before lifts. Expect stairs.
Private landlord or agency. 21% of listings are posted by a private landlord, against 79% that come through an agency. That is a middling proportion for Valencia.
The median rent in El Cabanyal is €1,400 a month. Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,607 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,200, and another quarter goes above €1,607.
Per square metre that works out at 18.5€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €920 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,300, and a 90 m² flat around €1,660.
Against the city as a whole, El Cabanyal sits in line with the Valencia median (€1,400/month), where the median price per square metre is 17.1€/m².
In El Cabanyal, only 10% of listings go below 13.6€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €950 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 El Cabanyal sits at 15.3€/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 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 El Cabanyal is €1,400 a month, which works out at roughly 18€/m². Most flats let for between €1,200 and €1,607 a month. These figures come from 153 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for El Cabanyal 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.
45% of rental homes in El Cabanyal have a lift. Only 37% of flats have a lift, the lowest figure of the ten neighbourhoods. El Cabanyal is low-rise fishermen's housing, one or two storeys, built long before lifts. Expect stairs.
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.