Municipality · Setúbal

Moita

Moita sits in the Península de Setúbal sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Moita?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Moita: 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 · MoitaSold · INE

€2,371/m²

Moita

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Median bank valuation · MoitaBank valuation · INE

€2,510/m²

Moita

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How Moita sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Moita· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · MoitaMedian sold price · Moita: latest 2,371 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.2,371 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Moita sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Moita (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 20231405
3rd Quarter 20231446
4th Quarter 20231498
1st Quarter 20241537
2nd Quarter 20241582
3rd Quarter 20241657
4th Quarter 20241713
1st Quarter 20251817
2nd Quarter 20251923
3rd Quarter 20252026
4th Quarter 20252226
1st Quarter 20262371
Median sold price · MoitaLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 2,371 · Min 792 · Max 2,371 · Range 1,579 · CAGR +19.2%/yr
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How Moita sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Moita (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019792
1st Quarter 2020837
2nd Quarter 2020867
3rd Quarter 2020893
4th Quarter 2020925
1st Quarter 2021952
2nd Quarter 2021966
3rd Quarter 2021993
4th Quarter 20211035
1st Quarter 20221078
2nd Quarter 20221163
3rd Quarter 20221214
4th Quarter 20221280
1st Quarter 20231350
2nd Quarter 20231405
3rd Quarter 20231446
4th Quarter 20231498
1st Quarter 20241537
2nd Quarter 20241582
3rd Quarter 20241657
4th Quarter 20241713
1st Quarter 20251817
2nd Quarter 20251923
3rd Quarter 20252026
4th Quarter 20252226
1st Quarter 20262371
Median sold price · MoitaLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 2,371 · Min 792 · Max 2,371 · Range 1,579 · CAGR +19.2%/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 Moita?

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

Common questions about Moita

How much does property cost per square metre in Moita?
In Moita, the median transacted (sold) price is about €2,371 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €2,510 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 Moita?
In Moita, the municipal property tax (IMI) rate for urban property — the rate applied to most homes and other urban buildings — is 0.365% (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 Moita?
In Moita, the reported-crime rate is about 35.3 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 Moita is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Moita, about 27.9% 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, 2025-04-14T00:00:00+00:00..2025-04-14T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 72.1% 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 5,526 hectares of in-force planned land — 1,544 urban/urbanisable, 2,853 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.
How much electricity could a solar panel generate in Moita?
In Moita, a standard 1 kWp solar panel system mounted at its optimal tilt would generate about 1,621 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 ±51 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).

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 Moita

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

What is the weather like in Moita?

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

Warmest mean daily maximum
30.861°C

July 2026

Coolest mean daily minimum
12.9034°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 Setúbal

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