# VIZ: Rental prices by block in Spain (El País, elDiario, July 2020)

* In July 2020, **the Spanish government published an official index of rental price**s by getting the data from the Tax Authority, the national cadastre, the Spanish Statistics Office, the property registry, the Bank of Spain and the Spanish regional authorities.

> **It's amazing how the data needed for such a public index is so much broken up and divided across so many different institutions**.

* One of the indexes published is **the evolution of the average rental price by square meter between 2015 and 2018**, which shows an increase of 19% in Malaga and Palma (two touristic cities), 17% in Barcelona, 16% in Valencia and 13% in Madrid.
* Using that data, newspapers like **El País** and **elDiario** published interactive maps where you can zoom into almost street level to see how the rental prices evolved between 2015 and 2018.
  * Visualisation by El País here: <https://elpais.com/economia/2020-07-03/alquileres-de-ricos-y-pobres-el-mapa-de-precios-calle-a-calle.html>
  * Visualisation by elDiario here: <https://www.eldiario.es/economia/subido-alquiler-grandes-ciudades-calle_0_1044296362.html>
* The Government publishes the data here: <https://www.mitma.gob.es/vivienda/alquiler/indice-alquiler>

<div align="center"><img src="https://598950057-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M7cGWjwASKQ2p8dLUtp%2F-MDQ52Du7LzwTXQuGnZd%2F-MDQ534qj-D8cj0vABeY%2FMadrid.png?alt=media&#x26;token=c9386720-6522-4a8f-b685-b8b344f60cee" alt="View of part of Madrid in the visualisation created by El País"></div>