Municipality · Santarém

Rio Maior

Rio Maior sits in the Lezíria do Tejo sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Rio Maior?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Rio Maior: 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 · Rio MaiorSold · INE

€1,278/m²

Rio Maior

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Median bank valuation · Rio MaiorBank valuation · INE

€1,633/m²

Rio Maior

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How Rio Maior sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Rio Maior· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · Rio MaiorMedian sold price · Rio Maior: latest 1,278 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.1,278 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Rio Maior sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Rio Maior (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023852
3rd Quarter 2023887
4th Quarter 2023855
1st Quarter 2024939
2nd Quarter 2024975
3rd Quarter 20241023
4th Quarter 20241041
1st Quarter 20251111
2nd Quarter 20251212
3rd Quarter 20251232
4th Quarter 20251233
1st Quarter 20261278
Median sold price · Rio MaiorLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,278 · Min 608 · Max 1,278 · Range 670 · CAGR +11.5%/yr
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How Rio Maior sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Rio Maior (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019646
1st Quarter 2020636
2nd Quarter 2020608
3rd Quarter 2020655
4th Quarter 2020686
1st Quarter 2021734
2nd Quarter 2021778
3rd Quarter 2021759
4th Quarter 2021791
1st Quarter 2022742
2nd Quarter 2022740
3rd Quarter 2022771
4th Quarter 2022833
1st Quarter 2023884
2nd Quarter 2023852
3rd Quarter 2023887
4th Quarter 2023855
1st Quarter 2024939
2nd Quarter 2024975
3rd Quarter 20241023
4th Quarter 20241041
1st Quarter 20251111
2nd Quarter 20251212
3rd Quarter 20251232
4th Quarter 20251233
1st Quarter 20261278
Median sold price · Rio MaiorLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,278 · Min 608 · Max 1,278 · Range 670 · CAGR +11.5%/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 Rio Maior?

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

Common questions about Rio Maior

How much does property cost per square metre in Rio Maior?
In Rio Maior, the median transacted (sold) price is about €1,278 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 Rio Maior?
In Rio Maior, 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 Rio Maior?
In Rio Maior, the reported-crime rate is about 30.9 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 Rio Maior is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Rio Maior, about 2.7% 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, 1995-05-17T00:00:00+00:00..1995-05-17T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 97.3% 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 27,262 hectares of in-force planned land — 745 urban/urbanisable, 24,683 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.
How much electricity could a solar panel generate in Rio Maior?
In Rio Maior, a standard 1 kWp solar panel system mounted at its optimal tilt would generate about 1,558 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 ±59 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).
What healthcare access does Rio Maior have?
In Rio Maior, the warehouse records medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 1.8 doctors/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants: 0.2 pharmacies/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; hospitals: 0 hospitals, reference period S7A2024. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
How many Blue Flag beaches does Rio Maior have?
In Rio Maior, the warehouse records blue flag beaches (regional total): 0 beaches (a NUTS3 regional total shared across the surrounding region, not this municipality alone), reference period S7A2026. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.

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 Rio Maior

These municipalities share a land border with Rio Maior, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons — 5 of them sit in a different district, so they do not appear in the district list below.

What is daily life like in Rio Maior?

The health-access and coastal figures the warehouse can source for this município, each served verbatim with its reference period and citable source. Where a figure is published only for the surrounding NUTS region, it says so.

HealthcareINE · health access & supply

1.8doctors/1k inhab.

Medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

0.2pharmacies/1k inhab.

Pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

0hospitals

Hospitals · S7A2024

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CoastINE · Blue Flag beaches

0beaches

Blue Flag beaches (regional total) · S7A2026

Regional total (NUTS3) — shared across the surrounding region, not this municipality alone. NUTS regional total broadcast to member concelhos — the WHOLE region's count, NOT this concelho's own; never sum across concelhos.

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What is the weather like in Rio Maior?

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

Warmest mean daily maximum
29.015°C

July 2026

Coolest mean daily minimum
9.645°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 Santarém

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