Municipality · Coimbra

Cantanhede

Cantanhede sits in the Região de Coimbra sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Cantanhede?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Cantanhede: 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 · CantanhedeSold · INE

€1,100/m²

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Median bank valuation · CantanhedeBank valuation · INE

€1,336/m²

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How Cantanhede sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Cantanhede· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · CantanhedeMedian sold price · Cantanhede: latest 1,100 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.1,100 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Cantanhede sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Cantanhede (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023772
3rd Quarter 2023797
4th Quarter 2023822
1st Quarter 2024815
2nd Quarter 2024872
3rd Quarter 2024931
4th Quarter 20241000
1st Quarter 20251042
2nd Quarter 20251100
3rd Quarter 20251114
4th Quarter 20251108
1st Quarter 20261100
Median sold price · CantanhedeLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,100 · Min 676 · Max 1,114 · Range 438 · CAGR +8%/yr
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How Cantanhede sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Cantanhede (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019680
1st Quarter 2020676
2nd Quarter 2020694
3rd Quarter 2020714
4th Quarter 2020768
1st Quarter 2021770
2nd Quarter 2021764
3rd Quarter 2021774
4th Quarter 2021761
1st Quarter 2022777
2nd Quarter 2022811
3rd Quarter 2022810
4th Quarter 2022803
1st Quarter 2023825
2nd Quarter 2023772
3rd Quarter 2023797
4th Quarter 2023822
1st Quarter 2024815
2nd Quarter 2024872
3rd Quarter 2024931
4th Quarter 20241000
1st Quarter 20251042
2nd Quarter 20251100
3rd Quarter 20251114
4th Quarter 20251108
1st Quarter 20261100
Median sold price · CantanhedeLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,100 · Min 676 · Max 1,114 · Range 438 · CAGR +8%/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 Cantanhede?

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

Common questions about Cantanhede

How much does property cost per square metre in Cantanhede?
In Cantanhede, the median transacted (sold) price is about €1,100 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €1,336 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 Cantanhede?
In Cantanhede, the municipal property tax (IMI) rate for urban property — the rate applied to most homes and other urban buildings — is 0.38% (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 Cantanhede?
In Cantanhede, the reported-crime rate is about 32.6 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 Cantanhede is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Cantanhede, about 12.1% 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, 2025-02-07T00:00:00+00:00..2025-02-07T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 87.9% 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 39,088 hectares of in-force planned land — 4,734 urban/urbanisable, 34,354 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.

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 Cantanhede

These municipalities share a land border with Cantanhede, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons — 4 of them sit in a different district, so they do not appear in the district list below.

Other municipalities in Coimbra

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