Commercial premises in Madrid: the agencies' listings Claro holds, checked against your brief

How many commercial premises are listed in Madrid?

As of 10 October 2026, the agencies' listings Claro holds for Madrid included 8,113 commercial premises (shops and retail premises): 3,879 for rent and 4,234 for sale. Across all types (premises, offices, warehouses, hotels and others), Claro counted 13,437 commercial properties, for rent or for sale. The breakdown by type and tenure is below.

Method: agencies' listings are merged into one record per property, refreshed nightly, and withdrawn properties are removed. The total of 13,437 counts each property once. The rows below overlap, so they add up to more than 13,437. Our methodology guide explains how the counts are built.

Scope: these are properties published by agencies and read by Claro. They are not the city's full stock of premises. For that, the Ayuntamiento de Madrid publishes the Censo de Locales y Actividades as open data on datos.madrid.es. It lists establishments by access type and activity, whether or not they are on the market.

• Shops and retail premises (locales comerciales): 3,879 for rent, 4,234 for sale (10 October 2026)
• Offices (oficinas): 4,797 for rent, 658 for sale (10 October 2026)
• Warehouses (naves): 485 for rent, 374 for sale (10 October 2026)
• Industrial units: 25 for rent, 10 for sale (10 October 2026)
• Hotels: 5 for rent, 37 for sale (10 October 2026)
• Other commercial properties: 75 for rent, 97 for sale (10 October 2026)
• Total distinct commercial properties, all types: 13,437 (10 October 2026)

What Madrid listings state, and what they leave out

The features an expansion brief hinges on are often the ones a listing does not mention. Claro reads each listing in full and gives a verdict on every criterion: met, not met or not stated. 'Not stated' means the listing is silent. It is a question for the agent, not a no.

Below are the figures for retail premises for rent in Madrid as of 10 October 2026. Each line comes from a single search and shows in how many matching listings the feature is stated and in how many it is not stated.

Footfall works differently: it is measured, not read from the listing. A brief asking for at least 20,000 people a day within a five-minute walk matched 3,478 retail premises for rent on 10 October 2026. The figure was available for 3,329 of them and not stated for 149.

• Smoke outlet (salida de humos, the extraction duct a kitchen needs): stated in 1,515 listings, not stated in 2,058 (10 October 2026)
• Food-service licence (licencia de actividad for food service): stated in 651, not stated in 3,139 (10 October 2026)
• Street level (a pie de calle): stated in 1,556, not stated in 2,243 (10 October 2026)
• Corner unit (local en esquina): stated in 373, not stated in 3,504 (10 October 2026)
• Shop window (escaparate): stated in 757, not stated in 3,110 (10 October 2026)

Where chains look in Madrid: districts and commercial axes

Retail and food-service briefs in Madrid usually name districts or commercial axes (ejes comerciales). These include Centro (Sol, Gran Vía, Fuencarral, Lavapiés) and Salamanca (Serrano, Goya, Ortega y Gasset). Chamberí, Chamartín, Retiro, Arganzuela and Tetuán also feature, as do Usera, Carabanchel and Puente de Vallecas. Office searches cluster along the Castellana and in Méndez Álvaro. Warehouse searches tend to point south and east.

Part of Distrito Centro is a Zona de Protección Acústica Especial (ZPAE), a special acoustic protection zone. The ZPAE limits new hospitality and leisure activities in defined areas. Check the zones and conditions on the Ayuntamiento de Madrid's website (madrid.es) before shortlisting a restaurant or bar site there.

• Name districts, streets or axes in your brief; Claro applies them as location criteria.
• Add footfall within a five-minute walk to compare streets on the same measure.
• For hospitality in Centro, check the ZPAE before committing to a site.

Rules that shape a shop or restaurant in Madrid

Two municipal ordinances shape most food-service and retail sites in Madrid. What follows summarises their scope only. Rules vary by municipality, depend on the exact activity and change over time. This is not legal advice: confirm with the Ayuntamiento de Madrid or a licensed technician.

• Smoke outlet: Ordenanza 4/2021, de 30 de marzo, de Calidad del Aire y Sostenibilidad (OCAS), Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Article 23 requires non-domestic cooking areas to have an extraction hood connected to a duct that complies with article 12 and Annex I, which provide for evacuation at roof level. Article 24 lists exceptions. See our smoke outlet guide.
• Licences: Ordenanza 6/2022, de 26 de abril, de Licencias y Declaraciones Responsables Urbanísticas de Madrid, published in the BOCM on 17 May 2022. It governs when an activity needs a licence and when a declaración responsable (a statement filed by the applicant) applies. It also sets the role of the entidades colaboradoras (accredited verification bodies). See our food-service licence guide.
• Claro reports what a listing says about a smoke outlet or licence. It does not certify that a property complies with either ordinance.

Example briefs for Madrid

Write a brief the way you would to an agent, or upload the one you already have in any language. Claro turns it into criteria you can see and checks every listing it holds in Madrid against each one. Our guide to writing an expansion brief covers what to include.

Each result shows exact counts, a verdict per criterion (met, not met or not stated) and the sentence from the listing behind it. It also shows footfall and residents around the address, nearby places, and a link to the agency's own listing.

• Example brief: Burger restaurant in Madrid, street level, 120–250 m², smoke outlet, food-service licence, corner unit or busy street, rent under €8,000 a month, at least 15,000 people a day within a five-minute walk.
• Example brief: Gym in Madrid, 400–800 m², open-plan, ceiling height of at least 3 m, rent under €10,000 a month, at least 20,000 residents within a 10-minute walk.
• Example brief: Physiotherapy clinic in Madrid, street level, 80–150 m², shop window, rent under €3,000 a month, residents within a 10-minute walk with above-average household income.
• Example brief: Franchise standard unit in Madrid, street level, 60–100 m², at least 5 m of frontage, shop window, at least 10,000 people a day within a five-minute walk.

Run a free search for Madrid

Anyone can run one free search on the homepage, with no sign-up. Type or upload your brief and see matching premises with exact counts, verdicts with evidence and the footfall around each one. A search that matches nothing does not use your free search.

More searches, every result, dossiers and side-by-side comparison need access, which you request with a short form the Casafari team reviews.

Claro searches commercial premises across Spain by city or province, and premises outside Madrid and Barcelona are added every night. Location figures and nearby places are shown, where available, for premises across Spain. In Barcelona, Claro counted 9,379 commercial premises and 12,937 commercial properties of all types on 10 October 2026.

• Barcelona: commercial premises checked against your brief
• Guide: smoke outlets (salida de humos)
• Guide: food-service licences
• Guide: writing an expansion brief
• Guide: footfall within a five-minute walk
• How Claro counts and checks premises: methodology