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Amares

Amares sits in the Cávado sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Amares?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Amares: 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 · AmaresSold · INE

€1,566/m²

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Median bank valuation · AmaresBank valuation · INE

€1,633/m²

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How Amares sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Amares· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · AmaresMedian sold price · Amares: latest 1,566 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.1,566 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Amares sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Amares (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023992
3rd Quarter 20231050
4th Quarter 20231157
1st Quarter 20241152
2nd Quarter 20241168
3rd Quarter 20241130
4th Quarter 20241118
1st Quarter 20251132
2nd Quarter 20251159
3rd Quarter 20251291
4th Quarter 20251392
1st Quarter 20261566
Median sold price · AmaresLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,566 · Min 710 · Max 1,566 · Range 856 · CAGR +13.5%/yr
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How Amares sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Amares (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019710
1st Quarter 2020724
2nd Quarter 2020736
3rd Quarter 2020728
4th Quarter 2020737
1st Quarter 2021780
2nd Quarter 2021801
3rd Quarter 2021894
4th Quarter 2021948
1st Quarter 2022988
2nd Quarter 2022974
3rd Quarter 2022977
4th Quarter 2022967
1st Quarter 2023970
2nd Quarter 2023992
3rd Quarter 20231050
4th Quarter 20231157
1st Quarter 20241152
2nd Quarter 20241168
3rd Quarter 20241130
4th Quarter 20241118
1st Quarter 20251132
2nd Quarter 20251159
3rd Quarter 20251291
4th Quarter 20251392
1st Quarter 20261566
Median sold price · AmaresLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,566 · Min 710 · Max 1,566 · Range 856 · CAGR +13.5%/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 Amares?

Prices tell you what it costs to buy in Amares; 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 Amares, 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 Amares 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 Amares 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 Amares purchase, use the cost calculator linked below.

Common questions about Amares

How much does property cost per square metre in Amares?
In Amares, the median transacted (sold) price is about €1,566 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €1,633 per square metre (June 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What is the IMI (municipal property tax) rate in Amares?
In Amares, 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 Amares?
In Amares, the reported-crime rate is about 19.0 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 Amares is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Amares, about 15.7% 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, 2025-01-22T00:00:00+00:00..2025-01-22T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 84.3% 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 8,195 hectares of in-force planned land — 1,284 urban/urbanisable, 6,912 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.
How much of Amares's property is mapped in the national land register?
In Amares, about 59.1% of the município's property tax-matrices have been georeferenced in the national land register through eBUPi (Balcão Único do Prédio) (eBUPi flow, 2021-09..2026-07). This is a data-coverage signal — how many property records have been precisely located on the map — not a measure of how much land is buildable, not a claim about who owns the land, and not a price. That is 8,703 of 14,733 registered tax-matrices. Source: eBUPi — Balcão Único do Prédio, CC BY 4.0 (eBUPi / dados.gov.pt).

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 Amares

These municipalities share a land border with Amares, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons.

Other municipalities in Braga

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