House sitting in Barcelona

Field report · updated 2026-07-27 · live corpus

Owners who listed here mostly had sitters to choose between: 89% of 235 watched listings drew at least two applications within 48 hours. Barcelona has 13 open sits across 11 homes right now. Living in sits here: 32 gapless days across 1 sit starting 30 Jul.

Open sits13across 11 homes
Gapless days321 sit, from 30 Jul
Plan your dates in Barcelona
1.3 sits open on a typical day

Pick your window. We chain the open sits that hand over cleanly inside it — computed right here, nothing sent anywhere.

The open listings chain into 32 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 30 Jul.

30 Jul1 handovers · 32 nights31 Aug
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 51 days with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
4 months listed today
July 2026
6
August 2026
5
September 2026
1
November 2026
1
For pet parents · what actually happened
watched 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-27
89%

of owners had a choice of sitters within 48 hours

about 9 in 10 · n=235 · ±4pp
the 43 measured cities run 22%–95% · median 77%
58%

filled to the five-application cap within 48 hours

each watched from zero applications
for scale: 665 sits provably completed here in the last 12 months · 1,836 since 2015
by year (floors): 2023 275 · 2024 387 · 2025 619

Floors, not verdicts — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement, and these are 48-hour rates: a speed gauge, not eventual success; many sits fill after the window. How we measure →

Stays & pets
11 homes open now

Too few open listings here to describe a typical stay length.

Of 11 homes: 3 are dogs-only, 7 cats-only, 1 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.

dogs only 27%dogs + cats 9%cats only 64%
Common questions

Will my pet-sitting listing get applicants in Barcelona?

Measured, not guessed: of 235 Barcelona listings watched from zero applications, 89% received at least two applications within 48 hours, and 58% reached the five-application cap. Both are floors — fast-filling listings are the ones most likely to escape measurement — and both are 48-hour rates: listings often keep drawing applications after the window we count.

Do house sits actually get filled in Barcelona?

Yes — at least 1,836 sits have provably completed in Barcelona since 2015, 665 of them ending in the last 12 months. A completion requires a chosen sitter, so every one had at least one real application. These are floors from listing histories, and they cannot be turned into a fill rate: sits that went unfilled leave no trace, so there is no denominator.

Can you live in Barcelona full-time on house sits?

Today's board chains into 32 consecutive housed days across 1 sit beginning 30 Jul. That is one bookable itinerary from live listings — it moves daily as sits are taken and posted.

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How these figures are computed

Open sits — live listings with a current or future date window; a home with several windows counts once per window.

Applicants — the count reported on each open listing at last refresh.

Posting lead — days between a listing first appearing and its start date, median across open listings.

Gapless days — the longest bookable run of consecutive covered days assembled from open sits beginning within the next 90 days: no overlaps, each sit starting the day the previous one ends.

Full methodology — how these are measured, and what they cannot say.