Real rental prices, percentiles and housing mix in Russafa.
Median rent
€1,650/month
Mean: €1,755/month
Price per m²
20.4€
Valencia: 17.1€/m²
Median size
83 m²
Valencia: 85 m²
Listings analyzed
159
Idealista listings
Prices, percentages and counts are calculated from Idealista listings of the last few months.
Russafa, often written Ruzafa in Spanish, is the strip of L'Eixample immediately south of the main train station. It was farmland, then a working-class quarter, and the street plan still shows it: a tight grid around the municipal market, old-school shops at ground level, and above them the densest layer of specialty coffee, coworking spaces, galleries and international restaurants in the city.
If you are arriving as a digital nomad or a young professional, this is where you will meet everyone else who did the same. The centre is a ten minute walk, the nightlife starts at your door and you can work from the corner café. It is priced accordingly: at 1.650€ median and 18,3€ per square metre, it is the most expensive residential neighbourhood we cover, behind only the historic core of Sant Francesc.
The weakness is noise. Living above Carrer de Cadis, Sueca or Cuba on a Saturday is a different experience from living three streets over, so ask which way the flat faces and whether the windows are double glazed. On the upside, one listing in five comes straight from the owner, so dealing without an agency is realistic here.
Transport: metro L3 and L5 (Xàtiva, Colón), Bailén station, and Estació del Nord, the main train station, five minutes away on foot.
48% of rental flats in Russafa have two bedrooms, followed by 23% with three bedrooms. Studios make up 3% of the supply, and flats with four or more bedrooms, 9%.
Lift. 67% of rental homes here have a lift. Three flats in four have a lift. The stock mixes older walk-up buildings with later blocks and recent refurbishments, so check which floor a flat is on before you book a viewing.
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 Russafa is €1,650 a month. Most flats let for between €1,362 and €2,000 a month: a quarter of the supply falls below €1,362, and another quarter goes above €2,000.
Per square metre that works out at 20.4€/m². Applied to real floor areas, a 50 m² flat lands around €1,020 a month, a 70 m² flat around €1,430, and a 90 m² flat around €1,840.
Against the city as a whole, Russafa sits 18% above the Valencia median (€1,400/month), where the median price per square metre is 17.1€/m².
In Russafa, only 10% of listings go below 13.3€/m². If you find a 70 m² flat at €930 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 Russafa sits at 16.1€/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 Russafa is €1,650 a month, which works out at roughly 20€/m². Most flats let for between €1,362 and €2,000 a month. These figures come from 159 Idealista listings over the last few months.
We do not publish a price trend for Russafa 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.
67% of rental homes in Russafa have a lift. Three flats in four have a lift. The stock mixes older walk-up buildings with later blocks and recent refurbishments, so check which floor a flat is on before you book a viewing.
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.