A house built around the ESADE calendar.
This is not an accidental student rental. It has been let to ESADE students year after year — for so long that its lease dates, location, and rhythm are calibrated to ESADE life specifically. Below, what that means in practice.
Seven rooms, seven ESADE students.
The house is let exclusively to students enrolled at ESADE Business School. This isn't a gimmick or a marketing claim — it is the actual operating model. Maria selects tenants from confirmed ESADE applicants, mixing programs and nationalities deliberately to create a small international community that mirrors ESADE's own. To reserve a room, applicants share their ESADE admission email as a reference.
The benefit, for the tenants, is a household of housemates who already share a campus, a calendar, and a frame of reference. No mismatched timetables. No housemates studying engineering at the other end of Barcelona. Everyone is, in the most useful sense, in the same boat.
The standard lease runs from 1 September 2026 to 15 July 2027, which aligns with the ESADE academic year for most master's programs and undergraduate cohorts. Move-in covers orientation week; move-out follows the end of final exams.
50 metres to the bus that goes straight to campus.
From the bus stop at Carrer Safareig 11 — fifty metres from the front door — direct buses run to the ESADE Sant Cugat campus throughout the day. For most tenants, this is the simplest way to get to class: a short walk, a short ride, and a coffee at one of the campus cafés before the first session of the day.
Students who prefer to cycle find Sant Cugat's gentle terrain forgiving; bicycle storage inside the property keeps the option practical year-round.
25 minutes by train to the city.
The FGC station at Plaça Lluís Millet — three hundred metres from the house — connects directly to Plaça Catalunya in central Barcelona in roughly twenty-five minutes. For ESADE students, this makes travel betwen Sant Cugat and Barcelona simple, with access to public transportation available 24h no need to rely on a car.
Nineteen nationalities. Six ESADE programs. One house.
Across recent cohorts, the house has hosted students from nineteen nationalities and six ESADE programs — a small, deliberately international group that, year after year, reflects ESADE's own international character.
If you're applying from one of these programs, you'll likely find a housemate who has gone through the same coursework, the same group projects, and the same career fairs. If you're applying from a different ESADE program, you'll be the first of your kind in the house — and very welcome.
The combination, more than any single feature.
Plenty of ESADE students could find a room somewhere in Sant Cugat or Barcelona for slightly less. Plenty could find a residence with more amenities for substantially more. What makes this house unusual is the combination — premium amenities (pool, garden, patio, barbecue, included cleaning and maintenance service) at a rent below the area's student residences, in a central location with a direct bus to campus, or 15 minutes walk, run personally by a landlord students actually want to stay in touch with.
Past tenants tend to describe the experience in similar terms: a year that felt less like renting and more like living somewhere that happened to be theirs. The house, the housemates, and the neighbourhood do most of the work; Maria handles the rest.