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before you pay the deposit.
Price and contract, verified against Barcelona's actual rules — free, 60 seconds.
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Three steps, about forty seconds.
Tell us what you were offered
Barri, rent, size, contract type, deposit. Thirty seconds, no account, no listing link needed.
We check it against the record
Typical rents for that barri, the reference index, and every Catalan rule in force on the day you check.
You get questions, not just a verdict
A plain-English breakdown plus the exact things to ask the landlord — in English, Spanish or Catalan — before any money moves.
The deal check
Most listings won’t tell you this.
Here’s a €750 room in Gràcia on a nine-month temporada contract, run through Moveable.
Carrer de Verdi, Gràcia
Room in shared flat · €750/mo · 9-month temporada · 14 m²
€750 is 28% above what people actually signed here
The median registered room rent in Gràcia last quarter was €586.
Indicative barri figure · city rent from INCASÒL, Q1 2026
A temporada contract does not dodge the cap
Gràcia is a tensioned zone. Since 1 January 2026, seasonal contracts carry the same rent limits as a permanent lease.
Llei 11/2025, in force 01/01/2026
No mention of lodging the deposit with INCASÒL
The landlord must lodge it within two months and give you the receipt — and since July 2026 that applies to rooms too.
Llei 13/1996 · Decret 147/1997 · Llei 11/2026
Ask them exactly this
- “Can you send me the clause stating the temporary purpose of the contract?”
- “What’s the Índex de Referència value for this flat? It has to be in the contract.”
- “Will the deposit be lodged with INCASÒL, and can I have a copy of the receipt?”
Informational summary, not legal advice. Rules reflect Catalan legislation in force at time of check. Verify anything decisive with a qualified professional before signing.
Why it works
Portals show you asking prices.
We show you signed ones.
Catalan law changed twice in seven months
Rent caps, seasonal-contract rules and deposit lodgement duties are new, specific to Catalonia, and written in Catalan. Portals tell you none of it.
Registered rent, not asking prices
Every deposit lodged in Catalonia is registered, so the city trend we show is what people actually signed — not what landlords hope to get.
Scam patterns, named
Payment before viewing, “landlord abroad”, manufactured urgency — the documented patterns behind most Barcelona rental scams, checked automatically.
The number nobody shows you
Rents just fell for the first time in years.
Portals quote asking prices, which only ever go up. This is the deposit registry — every contract actually signed in Barcelona. It fell 2% last quarter, which is what a rent cap looks like when it starts biting.
What people actually signed
Barcelona rent, 2022 Q2 to 2026 Q1
Registered contract rents from the deposit registry — not portal asking prices. City-wide.
€1,137
-2% on the quarter
+20.4% since 2019 Q1
INCASÒL deposit registry via Dades Obertes Catalunya · 8,156 contracts registered in 2026 Q1. City-level only — no barri breakdown is published in any open dataset.
€0
Average Barcelona rent, 2026 Q1
0
Contracts registered in 2026 Q1
0
Dwellings behind the Reference Index
0.00%
Annual rise where rent is capped
Questions
The things people ask first.
No. Moveable is an informational tool. It tells you what Catalan rental law currently says and how your listing compares to typical rents nearby, so you can ask better questions. Anything decisive — signing, disputing, going to court — should go past a qualified professional.
Don’t send a deposit on a hunch.
Check the flat first. It takes about forty seconds and it’s free.