Beach Rentals on the Catalan Coast Averaged €1,370 a Week This Summer
Holiday lets on the Catalan coast averaged €1,370 a week this summer, from €1,950 in Castelldefels to €830 in Lloret de Mar, with national rents up 6.5%.
Seasonal holiday lets along the Catalan coast averaged €1,370 per week during the 2026 summer, marginally above the €1,353 Spanish national average, on Grupo Tecnitasa valuation data published by idealista on 28 August. Across Spain as a whole, weekly holiday rents ran 6.5% higher than in 2025.
A spread of more than two to one within a single coastline
Castelldefels was the most expensive destination on the Catalan coast at €1,950 a week for a 75-square-metre beachfront flat. Sitges followed at €1,935 and Cadaqués at €1,850. Salou reached €1,620, Vilanova i la Geltrú €1,600, Calafell €1,430, and Blanes and Palamós €1,400 each.
At the other end, Lloret de Mar came in at €830 for a 70-square-metre flat in the town centre — less than half the Castelldefels figure for a property only marginally smaller. Miami Platja and L'Ampolla were also flagged as more competitively priced.
The comparison is not quite like for like, and that is the point. The Castelldefels benchmark is beachfront; the Lloret one is town centre. Tecnitasa's analyst notes that substantial price differences appear within a single town depending on location, amenities and distance to the beach — a reminder that any "average" for a coastal rental market conceals more than it reveals.
Growth is decelerating, not reversing
Barcelona province recorded increases of 5% to 8% in 2026, down from the 6% to 12% range projected for 2025. Girona showed a similar moderation. Prices are still rising across the Catalan coast; they are simply rising at roughly two-thirds of last year's pace.
The sale market underneath the holiday market
Glopra tracks Barcelona at $6,002 per square metre with a gross rental yield of 7.40% — the highest among the Spanish city markets in our file — and annual price growth of 7.1% in local terms. Nationally, Spain sits at $2,331 per square metre on a 5.45% gross yield with 12.8% annual growth, meaning the country as a whole is currently appreciating faster than its most expensive city.
Our Bubble Risk score is 60 for Barcelona and 61 for Spain, both in the elevated band.
Two cautions matter before anyone reads the weekly rents above as a yield calculation. Seasonal rents are earned over a short, weather-dependent window and cannot be annualised; the gross yields in our file are built on long-term letting. And Spanish transaction costs run near 15.3%, among the highest of any market we track, with an effective tax on rental income of 19% in the standardised non-resident case.
The regulatory dimension is the larger unknown. Short-term holiday letting in Catalonia is licence-controlled and the framework has tightened repeatedly in recent years. A property valued on tourist-rental income carries a policy risk that a long-let property does not.
Sources: idealista, reporting Grupo Tecnitasa data, 28 Aug 2026 https://www.idealista.com/en/news/property-for-rent-in-spain/2026/08/28/907670-renting-this-summer-on-the-catalan-coast-castelldefels-is-the-most-expensive