Municipality · Lisboa
Sintra
Sintra is part of Greater Lisbon — Portugal’s densest, most sought-after housing market, where the historic riverfront capital meets a ring of surf-and-commuter towns.
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What does property cost in Sintra?
These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Sintra: 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.
€2,908/m²
Sintra
€2,914/m²
Sintra
CC BY 4.0How Sintra sold prices have moved
- Median sold price · Sintra· Sold
Median sold price · Sintra: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal · retrieved 2026-08-12T23:51:31.305187Z · CC BY 4.0
| Period | Median sold price · Sintra (€/m²) |
|---|---|
| 2nd Quarter 2023 | 1913 |
| 3rd Quarter 2023 | 1957 |
| 4th Quarter 2023 | 2014 |
| 1st Quarter 2024 | 2059 |
| 2nd Quarter 2024 | 2100 |
| 3rd Quarter 2024 | 2158 |
| 4th Quarter 2024 | 2226 |
| 1st Quarter 2025 | 2297 |
| 2nd Quarter 2025 | 2418 |
| 3rd Quarter 2025 | 2555 |
| 4th Quarter 2025 | 2733 |
| 1st Quarter 2026 | 2908 |
| Median sold price · Sintra | Latest 1st Quarter 2026: 2,908 · Min 1,213 · Max 2,908 · Range 1,695 · CAGR +15%/yr |
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| Period | Median sold price · Sintra (€/m²) |
|---|---|
| 4th Quarter 2019 | 1213 |
| 1st Quarter 2020 | 1267 |
| 2nd Quarter 2020 | 1307 |
| 3rd Quarter 2020 | 1361 |
| 4th Quarter 2020 | 1413 |
| 1st Quarter 2021 | 1441 |
| 2nd Quarter 2021 | 1473 |
| 3rd Quarter 2021 | 1508 |
| 4th Quarter 2021 | 1548 |
| 1st Quarter 2022 | 1612 |
| 2nd Quarter 2022 | 1688 |
| 3rd Quarter 2022 | 1751 |
| 4th Quarter 2022 | 1816 |
| 1st Quarter 2023 | 1868 |
| 2nd Quarter 2023 | 1913 |
| 3rd Quarter 2023 | 1957 |
| 4th Quarter 2023 | 2014 |
| 1st Quarter 2024 | 2059 |
| 2nd Quarter 2024 | 2100 |
| 3rd Quarter 2024 | 2158 |
| 4th Quarter 2024 | 2226 |
| 1st Quarter 2025 | 2297 |
| 2nd Quarter 2025 | 2418 |
| 3rd Quarter 2025 | 2555 |
| 4th Quarter 2025 | 2733 |
| 1st Quarter 2026 | 2908 |
| Median sold price · Sintra | Latest 1st Quarter 2026: 2,908 · Min 1,213 · Max 2,908 · Range 1,695 · CAGR +15%/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 Sintra?
Prices tell you what it costs to buy in Sintra; 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 Sintra, 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 Sintra 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 Sintra 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 Sintra purchase, use the cost calculator linked below.
Common questions about Sintra
- How much does property cost per square metre in Sintra?
- In Sintra, the median transacted (sold) price is about €2,908 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €2,914 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 Sintra?
- In Sintra, the municipal property tax (IMI) rate for urban property — the rate applied to most homes and other urban buildings — is 0.3% (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 Sintra?
- In Sintra, the reported-crime rate is about 29.9 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.
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.
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