The idealista users interested in renting a flat with a terrace in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona they have grown on average by 14% and 13%, respectively, during the month of April compared to February, just before the state of alarm began. In districts of the capital such as Salamanca or Chamartín, or those of Horta Guinardó and Ciutat Vella in the Catalan city, contacts to rent a house with a terrace have skyrocketed above 40%.
The situation of confinement due to the state of alarm decreed by the Government to contain the coronavirus pandemic has meant that thousands of people have to live without balcony or terrace to be able to look out all day. A situation that is becoming unsustainable for many, as for that 8% of Spanish who have been living the quarantine without be able to see the street from your home, According to the idealista data.
Now that too Ad visits grow on idealista of homes for sale with a pool, the number of users interested in renting a home with a terrace is also increasing in the two large rental markets in Spain, according to the idealista / data analysis.
The average of contacts to rental apartments with terrace in Madrid had an increase of 14% in April, the first full month of full confinement of families in their homes, compared to February, the last month analyzed in the precovid-19 period, before the state of alarm throughout Spain.
Above the capital average, interest in finding a rental property with a terrace has exploded in the districts of Salamanca (45%), Chamartín (43%), Chamberí (33%) or Arganzuela (31%). However, there are also areas where contacts made in search of a rental with a balcony or terrace have declined. In the districts of Villaverde (-56%), Vicálvaro (-45%) o Carabanchel (-17%), contacts have searched for other types of housing to rent.
If we add the variant of the number of bedrooms in the capital, we can see that the floors of a bedroom with terrace (26%) and those of three bedrooms with terrace (17%) They are the ones who have received the most contacts to inquire about a rental. The two-bedroom apartments with terrace remain in a 13% increase in contacts. However, terrace studios have declined 19% in April compared to February.
In the particular case of Salamanca district, the area that has seen the most increase in contact with homes with terraces for rent in Madrid, the general trend continues. The floors of a bedroom with terrace (74%) and those of three bedrooms with terrace (63%) They are the ones who received the most contacts during April. While contacts with studios with a terrace (-10%) or very large apartments, with up to five bedrooms, with a terrace (-12%) have declined.
Another variant that is being appreciated in the rental market is that the supply of homes with these characteristics could be said to be ‘flying’. The districts of Madrid that have seen the most vary your offer of apartments with terrace in the current period of crisis due to the coronavirus compared to the precovid-19 period, they were Moratalaz (-56%), Usera (-47%) and Arganzuela (-43%). The aforementioned districts of Salamanca, Chamartín and Chamberí saw their offer of houses with terraces decline by -24%, -35% and -26%, respectively.
In Barcelona, the average number of contacts for rent a house with terrace it increased by an average of 13% in April compared to February. The districts of Horta Guinardó (53%), Ciutat Vella (51%) and Gràcia (24%) were the ones who led this increase in the number of contacts to rent a flat with a terrace. On the other hand, interest in this type of rental property declined in Nou Barris (-43%), Sant Martí (-17%), Les Corts (-4%) and Sant Andreu (-1%).
By adding the variant of the number of bedrooms in the capital, it is the studios with a terrace (84%) and the two-bedroom apartments with a terrace (18%) that have seen the most increase in contacts to rent them from idealista. In no case have contacts been reduced, houses with four or more bedrooms (9%), those with one bedroom (7%) and those with three bedrooms (4%), all of them with a terrace, have grown between the two months. compared.
If we analyze the particular case of Horta Guinardó highlights the increase in studies with terrace, which have practically doubled, while flats with more than four bedrooms have increased by 29%, followed by flats with three bedrooms (23%) and houses with two rooms (16%). Only the one-bedroom apartments with terraces are where the contacts to rent have fallen.
In addition, the fall in the supply of housing with a terrace in April, in full alarm, fell especially in this district of Horta Guinardó (-42%), beside Ciutat Vella (-33%) and Sant Martí (-27%).
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