Rent Budget in Barcelona

[MaryLB]

Hi,
I will be moving to Barcelona for work for a number of months. Could anyone give me an idea of what I should expect to pay for an apartment for myself. What sort of range is involved? Any help would be much appreciated. Also, are there any good contacts for finding a rental place?
Thanks.

 

[Afuera]

The cheapest 1 bedroom/studio apartment in Barna would start from about EUR 500, though it would probably be in fairly bad nick and/or in a bad location at that price. For a decent one bedroomed pad in a good location you'd probably be talking about 700-900. Loquo.com is a decent site for apartments in Barcelona and worth spending a bit of time on to see what's available. If you don't know where any of the locations are in the ads you can type the street name into this website and they'll map them for you: http://www.bcn.cat/guia/welcomea.htm

Some things you need to watch out for when renting in Spain: deposits can be quite large (usually between 2 - 6 months rent), if you go through an agency they will usually charge a months rent for their services, other costs may not be included in the monthly rent (community taxes, water, maintenance of the building, etc), many apartments do not come furnished.