Municipality · Porto
Matosinhos
Matosinhos is part of the Área Metropolitana do Porto — the industrious northern capital on the Douro and its fast-growing metro ring, Portugal’s second housing market.
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What does property cost in Matosinhos?
These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Matosinhos: 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.
€3,058/m²
Matosinhos
€2,847/m²
Matosinhos
CC BY 4.0Both 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 Matosinhos?
Prices tell you what it costs to buy in Matosinhos; 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 Matosinhos, 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 Matosinhos 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 Matosinhos 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 Matosinhos purchase, use the cost calculator linked below.
Common questions about Matosinhos
- How much does property cost per square metre in Matosinhos?
- In Matosinhos, the median transacted (sold) price is about €3,058 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). This is the last-confirmed reading — we could not re-reach the source warehouse this instant. The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €2,847 per square metre (June 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
Plan your purchase
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.
Buying in Matosinhos?
Map the numbers on this page to your specific purchase. Speak with an advisor about costs, timeline and paperwork.
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These municipalities share a land border with Matosinhos, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons.
Other municipalities in Porto
Other municipalities in the same district — each carries its own INE-sourced price, tax and safety figures.