What is the average price per square metre of housing in Spain?

How to get close to this number

Work back from a flat. A typical apartment is somewhere around ninety square metres and sells for a couple of hundred thousand euros nationally, which gives a price per square metre in the low thousands. Total price divided by area is how the metric is built, so reversing it is the natural estimate.

The spread in the explanation is the part the average hides: over five thousand euros per square metre in central Madrid and Barcelona against under eight hundred in parts of the interior. A national average across a factor-of-six range describes no actual market, and housing is the clearest case of a statistic that means nothing without a location attached.

The recovery detail is the structurally important one: prices have passed their 2008 bubble peak only in the big cities. The same country contains markets that have fully recovered and markets that have not, more than fifteen years later — which is a depopulation story as much as a housing one.