Four doors that fit the Fitness Company box in Madrid and Barcelona

Carabanchel is a large, dense residential district with no Fitness Company, lying in the gap between Fitness Company Delicias (4.2 km) and Fitness Company Parquesur (5.2 km). Within a ten-minute walk live 27,100 people, 10,500 of them aged 15–44, and nearly half a million people live within a ten-minute drive. Six in ten households sit in the €19,000–58,000 band an €18 membership fills from, and 84% of the street footfall is local. The unit has four large street entrances and smoke extraction and air renewal already in place, and the sale listing mentions several activity licences.

The competitive point is direct: a VivaGym trades 183 m away. Fitness Company’s price and atmosphere are built for that kind of competition, but the committee should see the rival’s price and membership before signing.

Fitness Company’s two Barcelona city clubs, Estel and Casp, are both in the Eixample. El Carmel would be the first in the north of the city, 4.3 km from Casp, with the largest ten-minute drive-time catchment in this shortlist at 542,000 people. A former supermarket is a natural conversion: a large street-level floor built for heavy footfall and deliveries. Four supermarkets and seven transit stops sit within a five-minute walk, and 62% of households are in the middle-income band.

The footfall is weekday-led, with weekends 35% quieter, which suits a before-and-after-work gym. A SynerGym operates 282 m away.

Parla is above Fitness Company’s 80,000-inhabitant threshold and has no club; the nearest is Fuenlabrada 2 at 5.9 km. It is jointly the youngest catchment here, with 40% of residents aged 15–44, the least contested, with 10,900 residents per nearby gym, and footfall holds steady through the week. At €183/m², the purchase price is the lowest in either metro.

Two things hold it back. The floor is below grade, which raises ventilation, fire escape, daylight and clear-height questions for a fitness use. And incomes are the lowest here, with spending power of €10,500 per resident, so this is a Clásico club with slower Premium uptake.

This is the Las Mercedes model applied to Barcelona: a business-park building, not a shop, with the clear height and open structure a gym floor needs. It sits between Fitness Company Estel (3.4 km) and Fitness Company Sant Joan Despí (4.2 km), serving L’Hospitalet’s southern neighbourhoods, and at €4.3/m² a month it is the cheapest lease in the screen. Half the nearby households earn above €40,000 and the morning share of footfall is the highest of the five.

At 1,268 m² it is smaller than Alcobendas, the smallest Spanish club, and seven gyms operate within 600 m, the most crowded set here after Santa Coloma.

On demand alone this would lead the list: 50,400 residents within a ten-minute walk, 19,100 of them aged 15–44, 13 transit stops and five supermarkets in five minutes. It is held because it sits 1.4 km from Fitness Company Badalona Montigalà, the 2,381 m² club opening in 2026, and nine gyms already trade within 600 m. Revisit once Montigalà has twelve months of member postcodes, which will show how far it actually draws from Santa Coloma.