The real estate market is still alive, despite the circumstances. We inquired the Housfy database, a comprehensive real estate services platform, which processed a thousand and a half sales throughout the State between January 2022 and April 2023, to expose the Barcelona neighborhoods where properties were sold more quickly and those where the process took a little longer.
The announcement of a flat for sale throughout the city of Barcelona lasted an average of 77 days before formalizing the sale, according to the Housfy registry. But there are areas where time has been drastically reduced.
The districts close to Besòs are those where sales accelerated the most. Sant Andreu stands out in this case as the district where homes were sold the fastest, in just over a month (41 days), according to data from Housfy.
They are followed by Sant Martí (65 days) and Nou Barris (66), with averages close to two months, and, on another side of the city, the Gràcia district (69 days) and Sants-Montjuïc (73).
Slightly above average are Les Corts (84 days), Eixample (85) and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi (88). The average sales time reached three months in Horta-Guinardó (95 days). The district where it took the longest to sell was Ciutat Vella (101 days), depending on the sample analysed.
By discriminating the data by neighborhoods, we will observe large variations between very close areas, sometimes even within the same district.
The neighborhood where homes were sold the fastest, in just 22 days on average, was Vilapicina i La Torre Llobeta (Nou Barris), a historic neighborhood with a manifesto noucentista legacy. If the average for Nou Barris is not better, it is due to the result of Porta (157 days), which is in the top 3 neighborhoods in the entire city of Barcelona where it took the longest to sell.
Elsewhere in the city, Vallcarca i els Penitents (Gràcia) stands as the second neighborhood where properties were sold in less than a month, with an average of 27 days. It is surprising that El Coll (Gràcia), with which it borders, registers as the area where the apartments took the longest to sell in the entire city (167 days).
Adjacent to Vilapicina we find El Congrés i els Indians (Sant Andreu), another neighborhood where flats were sold in record time (28.5 days).
L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample has been one of the neighborhoods where the sales perished the most, with an average of 166 days from the publication of the announcement to the formalization of the sale.
The same happens with the neighborhoods that make up Ciutat Vella, a district that outlines the old wall of the city. The Gòtic, in particular, impresses with one of the highest average times (151). With 87 days, Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera is the area of the historic center with the best result, still above average.
The reason? Probably very high prices in contrast to the conditions of the buildings, most of them built between the 19th and 20th centuries.
Check below the list of administrative districts in Barcelona and their average sales time, as documented by the comprehensive home platform Housfy:
In the city of Barcelona, the average time to sell a flat has been slightly higher than in most of the country's cities, although the trend is not much different in the surrounding cities: L'Hospitalet de Llobregat records an average time of 72 days and Badalona, 67.
Lleida is the Catalan capital where it has sold faster on average (38 days) during the same period analysed. Neither Girona (50) nor Valencia (52) exceed two months. Other towns such as Alacant (63) or Tarragona (72) extend the task just over two months on average.
Palma is one of the cities with an average sales time above that of Barcelona: it reached 80 days.
