As some of you know, I moved to Barcelona (Spain) a few weeks ago. It was quite a challenge to find a room in a shared flat. If I hadn’t had some friends (thanks to Stephi!!!) who gave me some hints on where to search, I still wouldn’t know where to start. There is very little information for international people in the net on how to find a room / shared flat etc. in Spain, so i decided to share this information here:
So here’s my “best of list” and my experiences:
Big classifieds site with lots of ads. The site has an English translation, but not many English ads, knowing Spanish is very helpful. No special features, unstructured information.
2. www.nuroa.es (in Germany www.nuroa.de)
Meta-search engine. This search engine aggregates listings from many portals and makes them searchable in one place. It has an English translation and useful filters. Nice thing is that you can search for English keywords and nuroa will automatically translate them into Spanish. So if you search for “room” in “Barcelona” you get all listings containing the Spanish word for room: “habitación”.
Real estate portal with special section for shared flats. This section has a feature that matches your needs with the offering of the listings. The goal is to limit the results only to “relevant” listings. Nice feature!
Real estate portal with some listings for flat shares. English translation exists. Not so many ads in general for shared flats.
Like the “Eye of Sauron” Google sees just about everything… so if you prefer a plain, unstructured search with no special features at all, Google works, too. The danger is, however, that you might get a lot old listings as well.
Hope that this brief review helps everyone, that is looking for a shared flat or a room in Spain. As none of these sites work only for Barcelona, you should find good results in other big cities like Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia etc, too. Sure those websites also might be helpful in finding an apartment or even house to rent or buy, but I don’t have any experience with the buy / sell and rental markets.
See you in Barcelona :-)
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