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Vizela

Vizela sits in the Ave sub-region of Portugal.

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What does property cost in Vizela?

These are the two municipality-level medians INE publishes for Vizela: 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 · VizelaSold · INE

€1,540/m²

Vizela

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Median bank valuation · VizelaBank valuation · INE

€1,475/m²

Vizela

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How Vizela sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Vizela· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · VizelaMedian sold price · Vizela: latest 1,540 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.1,540 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Vizela sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Vizela (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023990
3rd Quarter 20231044
4th Quarter 20231073
1st Quarter 20241111
2nd Quarter 20241104
3rd Quarter 20241067
4th Quarter 20241089
1st Quarter 20251080
2nd Quarter 20251172
3rd Quarter 20251307
4th Quarter 20251423
1st Quarter 20261540
Median sold price · VizelaLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,540 · Min 763 · Max 1,540 · Range 777 · CAGR +11.9%/yr
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How Vizela sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Vizela (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019763
1st Quarter 2020764
2nd Quarter 2020825
3rd Quarter 2020861
4th Quarter 2020905
1st Quarter 2021942
2nd Quarter 2021980
3rd Quarter 20211007
4th Quarter 20211003
1st Quarter 2022994
2nd Quarter 2022958
3rd Quarter 2022957
4th Quarter 2022969
1st Quarter 2023968
2nd Quarter 2023990
3rd Quarter 20231044
4th Quarter 20231073
1st Quarter 20241111
2nd Quarter 20241104
3rd Quarter 20241067
4th Quarter 20241089
1st Quarter 20251080
2nd Quarter 20251172
3rd Quarter 20251307
4th Quarter 20251423
1st Quarter 20261540
Median sold price · VizelaLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 1,540 · Min 763 · Max 1,540 · Range 777 · CAGR +11.9%/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 Vizela?

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

Common questions about Vizela

How much does property cost per square metre in Vizela?
In Vizela, the median transacted (sold) price is about €1,540 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). The median bank valuation — what lenders appraised, a separate measure from the transacted price — is about €1,475 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 Vizela?
In Vizela, 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 Vizela?
In Vizela, the reported-crime rate is about 17.1 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 Vizela is classified as urban or urbanisable land?
In Vizela, about 32.7% 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, 2013-01-04T00:00:00+00:00..2013-01-04T00:00:00+00:00); the remaining 67.3% 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 2,470 hectares of in-force planned land — 807 urban/urbanisable, 1,500 rural. Source: DGT — Direção-Geral do Território, CC BY 4.0.
How much of Vizela's property is mapped in the national land register?
In Vizela, about 20.6% of the município's property tax-matrices have been georeferenced in the national land register through eBUPi (Balcão Único do Prédio) (eBUPi flow, 2021-12..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 855 of 4,153 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 Vizela?
In Vizela, a standard 1 kWp solar panel system mounted at its optimal tilt would generate about 1,427 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 ±58 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 Vizela have?
In Vizela, the warehouse records medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 3.2 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 Vizela have?
In Vizela, the warehouse records blue flag beaches (regional total): 1 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 Vizela

These municipalities share a land border with Vizela, derived from official CAOP boundary polygons — 3 of them sit in a different district, so they do not appear in the district list below.

What is daily life like in Vizela?

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

3.2doctors/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

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

CoastINE · Blue Flag beaches

1beaches

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.

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

What is the weather like in Vizela?

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

Warmest mean daily maximum
29.897°C

July 2026

Coolest mean daily minimum
9.4778°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 Braga

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