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Sousel

Sousel sits in the Alto Alentejo sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Sousel?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Sousel: 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 · SouselSold · INE

€668/m²

Sousel

1st Quarter 2026Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal
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Median bank valuation · SouselBank valuation · INE

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 Sousel sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Sousel· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · SouselMedian sold price · Sousel: latest 668 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.668 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Sousel sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Sousel (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023379
3rd Quarter 2023408
4th Quarter 2023500
1st Quarter 2024472
2nd Quarter 2024525
3rd Quarter 2024546
4th Quarter 2024543
1st Quarter 2025575
2nd Quarter 2025585
3rd Quarter 2025615
4th Quarter 2025695
1st Quarter 2026668
Median sold price · SouselLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 668 · Min 249 · Max 695 · Range 446 · CAGR +17.1%/yr
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How Sousel sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Sousel (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019249
1st Quarter 2020311
2nd Quarter 2020321
3rd Quarter 2020328
4th Quarter 2020368
1st Quarter 2021370
2nd Quarter 2021331
3rd Quarter 2021311
4th Quarter 2021311
1st Quarter 2022343
2nd Quarter 2022349
3rd Quarter 2022365
4th Quarter 2022368
1st Quarter 2023370
2nd Quarter 2023379
3rd Quarter 2023408
4th Quarter 2023500
1st Quarter 2024472
2nd Quarter 2024525
3rd Quarter 2024546
4th Quarter 2024543
1st Quarter 2025575
2nd Quarter 2025585
3rd Quarter 2025615
4th Quarter 2025695
1st Quarter 2026668
Median sold price · SouselLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 668 · Min 249 · Max 695 · Range 446 · CAGR +17.1%/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 Sousel?

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

Common questions about Sousel

How much does property cost per square metre in Sousel?
In Sousel, the median transacted (sold) price is about €668 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 Sousel?
In Sousel, the municipal property tax (IMI) rate for urban property — the rate applied to most homes and other urban buildings — is 0.35% (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 Sousel?
In Sousel, the reported-crime rate is about 23.6 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 Sousel is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Sousel, about 1.2% 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, 2026-03-04T00:00:00+00:00..2026-03-04T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 98.8% 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 27,932 hectares of in-force planned land — 344 urban/urbanisable, 27,589 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.

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Municipalities bordering Sousel

These municipalities share a land border with Sousel, 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 Portalegre

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