Municipality · Aveiro

Santa Maria da Feira

Santa Maria da Feira sits in the Área Metropolitana do Porto sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Santa Maria da Feira?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Santa Maria da Feira: 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 · Santa Maria da FeiraSold · INE

€1,700/m²

Santa Maria da Feira

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Median bank valuation · Santa Maria da FeiraBank valuation · INE

€1,649/m²

Santa Maria da Feira

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How Santa Maria da Feira sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Santa Maria da Feira· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · Santa Maria da FeiraMedian sold price · Santa Maria da Feira: latest 1,700 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.1,700 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Santa Maria da Feira sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Santa Maria da Feira (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 20231179
3rd Quarter 20231211
4th Quarter 20231214
1st Quarter 20241218
2nd Quarter 20241252
3rd Quarter 20241292
4th Quarter 20241327
1st Quarter 20251403
2nd Quarter 20251486
3rd Quarter 20251558
4th Quarter 20251636
1st Quarter 20261700
Median sold price · Santa Maria da FeiraLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,700 · Min 814 · Max 1,700 · Range 886 · CAGR +12.5%/yr
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How Santa Maria da Feira sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Santa Maria da Feira (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019814
1st Quarter 2020829
2nd Quarter 2020860
3rd Quarter 2020884
4th Quarter 2020904
1st Quarter 2021910
2nd Quarter 2021920
3rd Quarter 2021936
4th Quarter 2021944
1st Quarter 2022974
2nd Quarter 20221021
3rd Quarter 20221056
4th Quarter 20221125
1st Quarter 20231157
2nd Quarter 20231179
3rd Quarter 20231211
4th Quarter 20231214
1st Quarter 20241218
2nd Quarter 20241252
3rd Quarter 20241292
4th Quarter 20241327
1st Quarter 20251403
2nd Quarter 20251486
3rd Quarter 20251558
4th Quarter 20251636
1st Quarter 20261700
Median sold price · Santa Maria da FeiraLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,700 · Min 814 · Max 1,700 · Range 886 · CAGR +12.5%/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 Santa Maria da Feira?

Prices tell you what it costs to buy in Santa Maria da Feira; 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 Santa Maria da Feira, 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 Santa Maria da Feira 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 Santa Maria da Feira 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 Santa Maria da Feira purchase, use the cost calculator linked below.

Common questions about Santa Maria da Feira

How much does property cost per square metre in Santa Maria da Feira?
In Santa Maria da Feira, the median transacted (sold) price is about €1,700 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €1,649 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 Santa Maria da Feira?
In Santa Maria da Feira, 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 Santa Maria da Feira?
In Santa Maria da Feira, the reported-crime rate is about 22.9 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 Santa Maria da Feira is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Santa Maria da Feira, about 40.6% 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, 2015-06-05T00:00:00+00:00..2015-06-05T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 59.4% 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 21,590 hectares of in-force planned land — 8,767 urban/urbanisable, 11,370 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.
How much of Santa Maria da Feira's property is mapped in the national land register?
In Santa Maria da Feira, about 31.5% of the município's property tax-matrices have been georeferenced in the national land register through eBUPi (Balcão Único do Prédio) (eBUPi flow, 2021-07..2026-07). This is a data-coverage signal — how many property records have been precisely located on the map — not a measure of how much land is buildable, not a claim about who owns the land, and not a price. That is 15,324 of 48,609 registered tax-matrices. Source: eBUPi — Balcão Único do Prédio, CC BY 4.0 (eBUPi / dados.gov.pt).
How much electricity could a solar panel generate in Santa Maria da Feira?
In Santa Maria da Feira, a standard 1 kWp solar panel system mounted at its optimal tilt would generate about 1,457 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 ±60 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 Santa Maria da Feira have?
In Santa Maria da Feira, the warehouse records medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 3.9 doctors/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants: 0.2 pharmacies/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; hospitals: 1 hospitals, reference period S7A2024. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
How many Blue Flag beaches does Santa Maria da Feira have?
In Santa Maria da Feira, the warehouse records blue flag beaches (regional total): 58 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 Santa Maria da Feira

These municipalities share a land border with Santa Maria da Feira, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons — 2 of them sit in a different district, so they do not appear in the district list below.

What is daily life like in Santa Maria da Feira?

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

3.9doctors/1k inhab.

Medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

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0.2pharmacies/1k inhab.

Pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

1hospitals

Hospitals · S7A2024

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

CoastINE · Blue Flag beaches

58beaches

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 Santa Maria da Feira?

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

Warmest mean daily maximum
28.524°C

July 2026

Coolest mean daily minimum
10.5305°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 Aveiro

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