Municipality · Faro

Vila Real de Santo António

Vila Real de Santo António is part of the Algarve — Portugal’s sun-belt coast of limestone cliffs, whitewashed fishing towns and golf estates, and its most foreign-buyer-driven property market.

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What does property cost in Vila Real de Santo António?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Vila Real de Santo António: 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 · Vila Real de Santo AntónioSold · INE

€3,001/m²

Vila Real de Santo António

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Median bank valuation · Vila Real de Santo AntónioBank valuation · INE

€2,603/m²

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How Vila Real de Santo António sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Vila Real de Santo António· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · Vila Real de Santo AntónioMedian sold price · Vila Real de Santo António: latest 3,001 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.3,001 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Vila Real de Santo António sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Vila Real de Santo António (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 20232154
3rd Quarter 20232284
4th Quarter 20232311
1st Quarter 20242335
2nd Quarter 20242424
3rd Quarter 20242431
4th Quarter 20242548
1st Quarter 20252627
2nd Quarter 20252705
3rd Quarter 20252788
4th Quarter 20252914
1st Quarter 20263001
Median sold price · Vila Real de Santo AntónioLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 3,001 · Min 1,559 · Max 3,001 · Range 1,442 · CAGR +11%/yr
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How Vila Real de Santo António sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Vila Real de Santo António (€/m²)
4th Quarter 20191563
1st Quarter 20201559
2nd Quarter 20201627
3rd Quarter 20201636
4th Quarter 20201672
1st Quarter 20211731
2nd Quarter 20211784
3rd Quarter 20211794
4th Quarter 20211827
1st Quarter 20221892
2nd Quarter 20221961
3rd Quarter 20221915
4th Quarter 20221969
1st Quarter 20232046
2nd Quarter 20232154
3rd Quarter 20232284
4th Quarter 20232311
1st Quarter 20242335
2nd Quarter 20242424
3rd Quarter 20242431
4th Quarter 20242548
1st Quarter 20252627
2nd Quarter 20252705
3rd Quarter 20252788
4th Quarter 20252914
1st Quarter 20263001
Median sold price · Vila Real de Santo AntónioLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 3,001 · Min 1,559 · Max 3,001 · Range 1,442 · CAGR +11%/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 Vila Real de Santo António?

Prices tell you what it costs to buy in Vila Real de Santo António; 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 Vila Real de Santo António, 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 Vila Real de Santo António 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 Vila Real de Santo António 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 Vila Real de Santo António purchase, use the cost calculator linked below.

Common questions about Vila Real de Santo António

How much does property cost per square metre in Vila Real de Santo António?
In Vila Real de Santo António, the median transacted (sold) price is about €3,001 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €2,603 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 Vila Real de Santo António?
In Vila Real de Santo António, the municipal property tax (IMI) rate for urban property — the rate applied to most homes and other urban buildings — is 0.45% (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 Vila Real de Santo António?
In Vila Real de Santo António, the reported-crime rate is about 51.1 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 Vila Real de Santo António is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Vila Real de Santo António, about 4.3% 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, 1992-04-16T00:00:00+00:00..1992-04-16T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 95.7% 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 5,940 hectares of in-force planned land — 253 urban/urbanisable, 5,510 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.
How much electricity could a solar panel generate in Vila Real de Santo António?
In Vila Real de Santo António, a standard 1 kWp solar panel system mounted at its optimal tilt would generate about 1,660 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 ±46 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 Vila Real de Santo António have?
In Vila Real de Santo António, the warehouse records medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 2.1 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 Vila Real de Santo António have?
In Vila Real de Santo António, the warehouse records blue flag beaches (regional total): 86 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 Vila Real de Santo António

These municipalities share a land border with Vila Real de Santo António, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons.

What is daily life like in Vila Real de Santo António?

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

2.1doctors/1k inhab.

Medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

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0.2pharmacies/1k inhab.

Pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

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0hospitals

Hospitals · S7A2024

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CoastINE · Blue Flag beaches

86beaches

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 Vila Real de Santo António?

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

Warmest mean daily maximum
32.46°C

July 2026

Coolest mean daily minimum
12.5957°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 Faro

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