Municipality · Vila Real
Mesão Frio
Mesão Frio sits in the Douro sub-region of Portugal.
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What does property cost in Mesão Frio?
These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Mesão Frio: 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.
€657/m²
Mesão Frio
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 Mesão Frio sold prices have moved
- Median sold price · Mesão Frio· Sold
Median sold price · Mesão Frio: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal · retrieved 2026-08-12T23:51:31.305187Z · CC BY 4.0
| Period | Median sold price · Mesão Frio (€/m²) |
|---|---|
| 2nd Quarter 2023 | 489 |
| 3rd Quarter 2023 | 583 |
| 4th Quarter 2023 | — |
| 1st Quarter 2024 | — |
| 2nd Quarter 2024 | — |
| 3rd Quarter 2024 | 513 |
| 4th Quarter 2024 | 500 |
| 1st Quarter 2025 | 401 |
| 2nd Quarter 2025 | 342 |
| 3rd Quarter 2025 | 392 |
| 4th Quarter 2025 | 536 |
| 1st Quarter 2026 | 657 |
| Median sold price · Mesão Frio | Latest 1st Quarter 2026: 657 · Min 342 · Max 657 · Range 315 · CAGR +5.9%/yr |
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| Period | Median sold price · Mesão Frio (€/m²) |
|---|---|
| 4th Quarter 2019 | — |
| 1st Quarter 2020 | — |
| 2nd Quarter 2020 | — |
| 3rd Quarter 2020 | — |
| 4th Quarter 2020 | — |
| 1st Quarter 2021 | — |
| 2nd Quarter 2021 | 500 |
| 3rd Quarter 2021 | 500 |
| 4th Quarter 2021 | 437 |
| 1st Quarter 2022 | 493 |
| 2nd Quarter 2022 | — |
| 3rd Quarter 2022 | 466 |
| 4th Quarter 2022 | 536 |
| 1st Quarter 2023 | 444 |
| 2nd Quarter 2023 | 489 |
| 3rd Quarter 2023 | 583 |
| 4th Quarter 2023 | — |
| 1st Quarter 2024 | — |
| 2nd Quarter 2024 | — |
| 3rd Quarter 2024 | 513 |
| 4th Quarter 2024 | 500 |
| 1st Quarter 2025 | 401 |
| 2nd Quarter 2025 | 342 |
| 3rd Quarter 2025 | 392 |
| 4th Quarter 2025 | 536 |
| 1st Quarter 2026 | 657 |
| Median sold price · Mesão Frio | Latest 1st Quarter 2026: 657 · Min 342 · Max 657 · Range 315 · CAGR +5.9%/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 Mesão Frio?
Prices tell you what it costs to buy in Mesão Frio; 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 Mesão Frio, 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 Mesão Frio 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 Mesão Frio 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 Mesão Frio purchase, use the cost calculator linked below.
Common questions about Mesão Frio
- How much does property cost per square metre in Mesão Frio?
- In Mesão Frio, the median transacted (sold) price is about €657 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 Mesão Frio?
- In Mesão Frio, the municipal property tax (IMI) rate for urban property — the rate applied to most homes and other urban buildings — is 0.4% (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).
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 Mesão Frio?
Map the numbers on this page to your specific purchase. Speak with an advisor about costs, timeline and paperwork.
Book a free consultationMunicipalities bordering Mesão Frio
These municipalities share a land border with Mesão Frio, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons — 3 of them sit in a different district, so they do not appear in the district list below.
Other municipalities in Vila Real
Other municipalities in the same district — each carries its own INE-sourced price, tax and safety figures.