Municipality · Portalegre

Alter do Chão

Alter do Chão sits in the Alto Alentejo sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Alter do Chão?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Alter do Chão: the transacted (sold) price and the median bank valuation, both per square metre. They are measured differently and are labelled separately, so a valuation is never presented as a sold price.

Median sold price · Alter do ChãoSold · INE

€461/m²

Alter do Chão

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Median bank valuation · Alter do ChãoBank valuation · INE

Not yet published by INE at this granularity — we show a figure only when the warehouse can source it with provenance, never an estimate.

How Alter do Chão sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Alter do Chão· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · Alter do ChãoMedian sold price · Alter do Chão: latest 461 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.461 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

Median sold price · Alter do Chão: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal · retrieved 2026-08-12T23:51:31.305187Z · CC BY 4.0

How Alter do Chão sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Alter do Chão (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023426
3rd Quarter 2023434
4th Quarter 2023469
1st Quarter 2024462
2nd Quarter 2024437
3rd Quarter 2024436
4th Quarter 2024456
1st Quarter 2025456
2nd Quarter 2025481
3rd Quarter 2025487
4th Quarter 2025432
1st Quarter 2026461
Median sold price · Alter do ChãoLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 461 · Min 241 · Max 487 · Range 246 · CAGR +5.3%/yr
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How Alter do Chão sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Alter do Chão (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019333
1st Quarter 2020313
2nd Quarter 2020312
3rd Quarter 2020333
4th Quarter 2020276
1st Quarter 2021275
2nd Quarter 2021257
3rd Quarter 2021241
4th Quarter 2021294
1st Quarter 2022348
2nd Quarter 2022381
3rd Quarter 2022380
4th Quarter 2022379
1st Quarter 2023412
2nd Quarter 2023426
3rd Quarter 2023434
4th Quarter 2023469
1st Quarter 2024462
2nd Quarter 2024437
3rd Quarter 2024436
4th Quarter 2024456
1st Quarter 2025456
2nd Quarter 2025481
3rd Quarter 2025487
4th Quarter 2025432
1st Quarter 2026461
Median sold price · Alter do ChãoLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 461 · Min 241 · Max 487 · Range 246 · CAGR +5.3%/yr

Both series are drawn from the public data registry with full provenance. Transacted (sold) figures come from INE’s house-price statistics; the bank-valuation series is INE’s median valuation used by credit institutions. Each carries its own reference period, shown above.

What are the rules and costs in Alter do Chão?

Prices tell you what it costs to buy in Alter do Chão; the rules and costs below tell you what governs a purchase and what it costs to hold.

Two rules shape most purchases here — whether a property can be let short-term, and what it costs to hold each year — followed by the guides and calculator to model your full purchase.

Can you run a short-term rental here?

Short-term letting (Alojamento Local, AL) is regulated at the municipal level in Alter do Chão, as it is across Portugal: the national Alojamento Local regime (Decreto-Lei 128/2014, as amended) sets registration and operating requirements, while each câmara municipal can designate zonas de contenção that suspend or restrict new AL registrations. Restriction status varies by municipality and by parish, and changes over time.

This is general information, not legal advice — confirm the current status for a specific address with the Alter do Chão câmara municipal before assuming a property can be operated as AL.

What about annual property tax (IMI)?

Municipal Property Tax (IMI) is levied annually by the Alter do Chão council within a band set nationally, so the exact rate depends on the municipality and the property’s taxable value (VPT). We do not print a rate we cannot source: any specific figure we publish is drawn from the official register with its reference year, never estimated here.

To model the full acquisition cost — IMT, stamp duty and the recurring IMI — for a specific Alter do Chão purchase, use the cost calculator linked below.

Common questions about Alter do Chão

How much does property cost per square metre in Alter do Chão?
In Alter do Chão, the median transacted (sold) price is about €461 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What is the IMI (municipal property tax) rate in Alter do Chão?
In Alter do Chão, the municipal property tax (IMI) rate for urban property — the rate applied to most homes and other urban buildings — is 0.3% (set for 2025). The exact IMI you pay is this rate applied to the property's taxable value (VPT). For rustic (rural-land) property the rate is 0.8%, a separate statutory rate. Source: Portal das Finanças (Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira), Public administrative data (Portal das Finanças / AT).
What is the reported-crime rate in Alter do Chão?
In Alter do Chão, the reported-crime rate is about 36.5 crimes/1k residents (Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, reference period 2025 crime counts over 2021 resident population). This counts crimes recorded by the authorities, normalised per 1,000 residents so municipalities of different sizes compare fairly — it is not a measure of how likely any individual is to be affected. Derived as registered_crimes / population_2021 * 1000. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
How much of Alter do Chão is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Alter do Chão, about 0.7% of the município's in-force planned land is classified as urban or urbanisable ("solo urbano") under its municipal master plan (PDM) (in-force municipal plans, 2023-09-25T00:00:00+00:00..2023-09-25T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 99.3% is classified rural ("solo rústico"). This is a land-use-regime classification the município's PDM fixes — how the plan zones the territory — not a measure of how much land is physically buildable or already built, and not a price. Of about 36,207 hectares of in-force planned land — 256 urban/urbanisable, 35,950 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.
How much electricity could a solar panel generate in Alter do Chão?
In Alter do Chão, a standard 1 kWp solar panel system mounted at its optimal tilt would generate about 1,577 kWh of electricity per year (PVGIS-SARAH2, 2005..2020), modelled by the EU Joint Research Centre's PVGIS at the município's own interior point. This is a solar-yield estimate — how much electricity the sun could produce for a standard panel — not a price, and not a claim that any particular plot may be built on. Year to year, that yield varies by about ±52 kWh (the interannual standard deviation across the modelled years). Source: JRC Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS) v5.2, CC BY 4.0 (European Commission reuse policy; PVGIS-SARAH2).
What healthcare access does Alter do Chão have?
In Alter do Chão, the warehouse records medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 1.3 doctors/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants: 1.3 pharmacies/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; hospitals: 0 hospitals, reference period S7A2024. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
How many Blue Flag beaches does Alter do Chão have?
In Alter do Chão, the warehouse records blue flag beaches (regional total): 1 beaches (a NUTS3 regional total shared across the surrounding region, not this municipality alone), reference period S7A2026. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.

Every figure on this page is drawn from the public data registry with full provenance — official sources, reference periods and licences. We publish a number only when the warehouse can source it.

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Municipalities bordering Alter do Chão

These municipalities share a land border with Alter do Chão, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons.

What is daily life like in Alter do Chão?

The health-access and coastal figures the warehouse can source for this município, each served verbatim with its reference period and citable source. Where a figure is published only for the surrounding NUTS region, it says so.

HealthcareINE · health access & supply

1.3doctors/1k inhab.

Medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

1.3pharmacies/1k inhab.

Pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

0hospitals

Hospitals · S7A2024

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

CoastINE · Blue Flag beaches

1beaches

Blue Flag beaches (regional total) · S7A2026

Regional total (NUTS3) — shared across the surrounding region, not this municipality alone. NUTS regional total broadcast to member concelhos — the WHOLE region's count, NOT this concelho's own; never sum across concelhos.

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

What is the weather like in Alter do Chão?

IPMA has published 5 distinct calendar months for Alter do Chão so far — these are the observed extremes over that window, not a full-year normal.

Warmest mean daily maximum
34.342°C

July 2026

Coolest mean daily minimum
9.6298°C

November 2025

Observed window August 2025 – August 2026. Source: IPMA — Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (Free reuse with attribution to IPMA (open-data)).

Other municipalities in Portalegre

Other municipalities in the same district — each carries its own INE-sourced price, tax and safety figures.