Regional Guides
Portugal property guides by region
Every regional guide in one place — the metropolitan and island regions plus the district guides. Open one for its latest official sold and rental medians, short-let status and municipal tax context — each figure shown with its source, reference period and licence.
Metropolitan & island regions
Our beachhead regions — the major metropolitan areas and islands, each with a full regional guide and live INE medians.
- Greater LisbonGreater Lisbon is Portugal’s most expensive housing market, and transacted prices here sit well above the national median. This guide pairs the latest official sold and rental figures — each with its source and reference period — with the rules that shape a purchase in the region.Open the guide →
- PortoThe Área Metropolitana do Porto is Portugal’s second housing market — anchored by a UNESCO-listed city on the Douro and a ring of fast-growing concelhos. This guide pairs the latest official transacted and rental medians, each with its source and reference period, with the rules and taxes that shape a purchase here.Open the guide →
- AlgarveThe Algarve is Portugal’s most foreign-buyer-driven market — a coastline of resort towns and golf estates that draws holiday-home and relocation demand from across Europe. This guide pairs the latest official transacted and rental medians, each with its source and reference period, with the short-let and tax rules that shape a purchase here.Open the guide →
- MadeiraThe Autonomous Region of Madeira is a subtropical Atlantic archipelago that has become a magnet for relocation and remote-work buyers, and its transacted prices now run above the national median. This guide pairs the latest official sold and rental figures — each with its source and reference period — with the rules that shape a purchase on the island.Open the guide →
District guides
A guide for every mainland district, anchored on the NUTS-III region that contains the district capital, with a per-municipality breakdown so no figure is a synthetic distrito aggregate.
- BragaThe Braga district anchors the fast-growing Minho, pairing a historic university city with the dense industrial belt of the Ave valley. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Cávado sub-region around Braga city and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality — each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- SetúbalThe Setúbal district runs from Lisbon’s densely populated south bank across the Sado estuary to the quieter Alentejo coast. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Península de Setúbal sub-region and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality — each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- AveiroThe Aveiro district runs down Portugal’s central-Atlantic coast, from the lagoon city of Aveiro and its salt pans to a busy industrial belt that spills north into the Porto metropolitan area. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Região de Aveiro sub-region around Aveiro city and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality — each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- CoimbraThe Coimbra district centres on Portugal’s oldest university city, spreading from the Mondego valley west to the Figueira da Foz coast and east into the wooded serras of the Beira interior. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Região de Coimbra sub-region and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality — each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- LeiriaThe Leiria district joins an inland industrial heartland — glass, moulds and plastics around Leiria and Marinha Grande — to a fast-growing stretch of the Silver Coast at Nazaré, Óbidos and Peniche. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Região de Leiria sub-region and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality — each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- SantarémThe Santarém district is the heart of the Ribatejo, spread along the Tagus valley from the fertile Lezíria floodplain around Santarém city up through the Médio Tejo towns of Tomar, Abrantes and Ourém. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Lezíria do Tejo sub-region and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality — each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- ViseuThe Viseu district climbs from the granite plateau of the Beira Alta around Viseu city into the terraced vineyards of the Dão and, at its northern edge, down into the Douro valley. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Viseu Dão Lafões sub-region and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality — each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- Vila RealThe Vila Real district runs along the terraced vineyards of the Douro valley around Peso da Régua and climbs north into the highland pastures of Barroso and the spa town of Chaves. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Douro sub-region — which contains Vila Real city — and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- BragançaThe Bragança district spans the high plateau of Trás-os-Montes in Portugal’s remote north-east, from the walled citadel city of Bragança and the mirandês-speaking uplands around Miranda do Douro down to the schist terraces where the district meets the Douro valley. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Terras de Trás-os-Montes sub-region — which contains Bragança city — and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- GuardaThe Guarda district climbs the eastern flank of the Serra da Estrela — Portugal’s highest mountain range — from the granite cathedral city of Guarda, the loftiest district capital in the country, down to the fortified border towns of the Beira Alta and north to the port-wine terraces where the district meets the Douro. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Beiras e Serra da Estrela sub-region — which contains Guarda city — and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- Castelo BrancoThe Castelo Branco district spreads across the warm, dry Beira Baixa of Portugal’s central-east, from the Templar city of Castelo Branco on the Spanish border up to the Cova da Beira valley of Covilhã and Fundão beneath the southern wall of the Serra da Estrela. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Beira Baixa sub-region — which contains Castelo Branco city — and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- PortalegreThe Portalegre district is the Alto Alentejo — a wide, thinly populated border country of cork oaks, olive groves and whitewashed hilltop towns in Portugal’s east, from the marble-and-fortress city of Elvas on the Spanish frontier up to the schist mountain villages of Marvão and Castelo de Vide in the Serra de São Mamede. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Alto Alentejo sub-region — which contains Portalegre city — and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- ÉvoraThe Évora district is the Alentejo Central — the heart of the great southern plains, a UNESCO-listed Roman-and-mediaeval capital city ringed by cork-oak montado, marble quarries and walled wine towns from Estremoz and Borba to the megalithic country around Reguengos de Monsaraz. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Alentejo Central sub-region — which contains Évora city — and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- BejaThe Beja district is the Baixo Alentejo — Portugal’s vast, thinly populated south, a country of cork-oak and holm-oak montado, wheat plains and the Alqueva reservoir, reaching from the marble-white county town of Beja to the wild Atlantic coast of Odemira. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Baixo Alentejo sub-region — which contains Beja city — and then breaks the whole district down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →
- Viana do CasteloThe Viana do Castelo district is the Alto Minho — Portugal’s green, rain-fed north-west corner, running from the Atlantic beaches and the elegant county town at the mouth of the Lima up the river valleys of the Minho, Lima and Vez to the granite highlands of the Peneda-Gerês. Because Portugal’s statistics office publishes house prices by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, this guide leads with the official figures for the Alto Minho sub-region — which the district makes up in full — and then breaks it down municipality by municipality, each number with its own source and reference period.Open the guide →