Barcelona City Council has handed over the keys to 107 new affordable rental flats in the Illa Acer development, in La Marina del Prat Vermell, Sants-Montjuïc. The latest delivery took place on Friday afternoon and adds to the 60 homes handed over in April.
This means 167 homes have now been delivered in Illa Acer, which is Barcelona’s second largest public housing project after Illa Glòries. The development is part of the wider transformation of La Marina del Prat Vermell, an area the city says is gaining new homes, public facilities and green spaces.
Jordi Valls, Fourth Deputy Mayor for Economy, Housing, Finance and Tourism, and Raquel Gil, Fifth Deputy Mayor and Councillor for the Sants-Montjuïc district, attended the handover. The project is managed by the Municipal Housing Institute of Barcelona, known as IMHAB, and has received an investment of €32.8 million, with funding from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda. More Barcelona and Catalonia news.
Illa Acer will have 234 homes in total, including 172 for affordable rent and 62 under a surface rights regime. The remaining homes are expected to be delivered during 2026. The development also includes 77 car parking spaces, 12 adapted spaces, 54 motorcycle spaces and 256 bicycle spaces.
The flats range from one to three bedrooms and measure between 43.31 and 78.85 square metres. Monthly rents run from €401.20 to €789.29, based on a rate of €10.01 per square metre. Extra monthly costs of about €35 cover community expenses, property tax and other charges. Twelve homes are adapted for people with reduced mobility.
The city says 40 homes are reserved for local residents, 16 for single-parent families, 48 for people under 35 and 12 for adapted housing. Valls said around 800 people are expected to move into Illa Acer, and linked the project to the council’s wider housing policy under the Pla Viure plan. The city’s goal is to deliver 3,000 keys by the end of the mandate and reach a public housing stock of 15,000 homes by 2027. For official project information, see the Barcelona housing service and IMHAB.
The development sits between Motors, Acer, Ascó and Cal Cisó streets, where a central garden is being created. The building was designed by the joint venture of architects Aybar Mateos and Borrell-Jover, and the Neighbourhood Plan includes a municipal nursery school on the ground floor of the Cal Cisó block.