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The 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.

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What does property cost in Beja?

The figures below are the latest official medians for the region, each shown beside its reference period and INE source. Transacted (sold) prices are drawn from INE’s house-price statistics; the national median is shown alongside so you can see how the region compares.

Median sold price · BejaSold · INE

€914/m²

Baixo Alentejo

1st Quarter 2026Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal
CC BY 4.0
Median sold price · PortugalSold · INE (national)

€2,168/m²

Portugal

1st Quarter 2026Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal
CC BY 4.0
Median new-lease rent · BejaRent · INE

€5.95/m²

Baixo Alentejo

1st Quarter 2026Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal
CC BY 4.0

Sub-region level (Baixo Alentejo) — INE publishes the rent series by NUTS-III only, so there is no separate concelho-level rent figure for the Beja municipalities.

How Beja sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Beja· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · BejaMedian sold price · Beja: latest 914 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.914 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Beja sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Beja (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023617
3rd Quarter 2023618
4th Quarter 2023629
1st Quarter 2024660
2nd Quarter 2024660
3rd Quarter 2024676
4th Quarter 2024688
1st Quarter 2025717
2nd Quarter 2025781
3rd Quarter 2025832
4th Quarter 2025878
1st Quarter 2026914
Median sold price · BejaLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 914 · Min 514 · Max 914 · Range 400 · CAGR +8.9%/yr
Show all 26 rows
How Beja sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Beja (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019536
1st Quarter 2020514
2nd Quarter 2020522
3rd Quarter 2020539
4th Quarter 2020564
1st Quarter 2021578
2nd Quarter 2021581
3rd Quarter 2021597
4th Quarter 2021591
1st Quarter 2022597
2nd Quarter 2022625
3rd Quarter 2022637
4th Quarter 2022646
1st Quarter 2023635
2nd Quarter 2023617
3rd Quarter 2023618
4th Quarter 2023629
1st Quarter 2024660
2nd Quarter 2024660
3rd Quarter 2024676
4th Quarter 2024688
1st Quarter 2025717
2nd Quarter 2025781
3rd Quarter 2025832
4th Quarter 2025878
1st Quarter 2026914
Median sold price · BejaLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 914 · Min 514 · Max 914 · Range 400 · CAGR +8.9%/yr

Asking vs sold

Asking-price data pending — we publish an asking figure only from a licensed source, never scraped listings, and we always label it separately from the sold (INE) median so the two are never conflated.

What does each type of property cost in Beja?

Two official medians, kept deliberately apart. Bank appraisals are what lenders valued homes at; registered sales are what buyers actually paid. They are measured differently, published on different cadences, and are never averaged together.

Flats vs villas

Bank appraisal · INE · €/m²

Median value of bank evaluations on housing — what lenders valued property at for mortgage purposes. It is a valuation opinion, not a transacted price, so it is never mixed with the sale medians below.

Median flats vs villas price per square metre in Beja
FlatsMedian€1,429€/m²PeriodJune 2026
VillasMedian€1,122€/m²PeriodJune 2026
All housingMedian€1,215€/m²PeriodJune 2026

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal — CC BY 4.0. Each row carries its own reference period, shown above.

New vs existing homes

Sold · INE · €/m²

Median value of registered dwelling sales — what buyers actually transacted at, split by whether the home was newly built or already existing. This is the sold family; it is never mixed with appraisals.

Median new vs existing homes price per square metre in Beja
New dwellingsMedian€1,088€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Existing dwellingsMedian€898€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
All dwellingsMedian€914€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal — CC BY 4.0. Each row carries its own reference period, shown above.

Prices are one part of the picture. Below, see how Beja sits through the market cycle — bank appraisals against sold prices, transaction activity and rents, each drawn live from INE with its source and reference period.

Where exactly in Beja?

Those trends describe Beja as a whole. Below, place it on the map to see exactly where they apply — and, where the data allows, how prices vary from one part of the region to the next.

Beja on the map

The 14 municipalities that make up the Beja distrito. Select a municipality to open its concelho guide.

AljustrelAlmodôvarAlvitoBarrancosBejaCastro VerdeCubaFerreira do AlentejoMértolaMouraOdemiraOuriqueSerpaVidigueira
  1. 1. Aljustrel
  2. 2. Almodôvar
  3. 3. Alvito
  4. 4. Barrancos
  5. 5. Beja
  6. 6. Castro Verde
  7. 7. Cuba
  8. 8. Ferreira do Alentejo
  9. 9. Mértola
  10. 10. Moura
  11. 11. Odemira
  12. 12. Ourique
  13. 13. Serpa
  14. 14. Vidigueira

Boundaries: Direção-Geral do Território — Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal (CAOP2025) — source — CC BY 4.0 (DGT)

Beja district, municipality by municipality

Portugal’s statistics office (INE) does not publish transacted house prices on district boundaries — the official series is released for NUTS-III sub-regions and for individual municipalities (concelhos) only. The headline figures on this page are therefore the official medians for the Baixo Alentejo sub-region, which contains the city of Beja; they are not a district-wide aggregate. The full district — 14 municipalities, thirteen in the Baixo Alentejo and the coastal municipality of Odemira in the Alentejo Litoral sub-region — is shown municipality by municipality in the breakdown below, each figure with its own INE source and reference period. We never synthesise a single district number.

Baixo Alentejo

Sub-region median: €914/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Baixo Alentejo
BejaMedian sold€1,252€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
AljustrelMedian sold€890€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
AlmodôvarMedian sold€979€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
AlvitoMedian sold€970€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
BarrancosData pending — we publish a figure only when the warehouse can source it with provenance.
Castro VerdeMedian sold€1,095€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
CubaMedian sold€692€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Ferreira do AlentejoMedian sold€841€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
MértolaMedian sold€723€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
MouraMedian sold€792€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
OuriqueMedian sold€846€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
SerpaMedian sold€662€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
VidigueiraMedian sold€763€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026

Alentejo Litoral

Sub-region median: €2,084/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Alentejo Litoral
OdemiraMedian sold€1,799€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026

Transacted (sold) median price per square metre. Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal — CC BY 4.0. Figures are the latest available official medians; each municipality carries its own reference period, shown above.

What is living in Beja like?

Knowing where a property sits is only half the decision — the other half is what daily life there is like. Here are the liveability signals we can source for Beja today, each added as the data becomes available.

HealthcareINE · health access & supply

5.1doctors/1k inhab.

Medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

0.3pharmacies/1k inhab.

Pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

1hospitals

Hospitals · S7A2024

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

ConnectivityINE · fixed broadband

15,292accesses

Fixed broadband Internet accesses · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

SafetyINE · reported crime

40.4

crimes/1k residents

Registered crimes per 1,000 residents · 2025 crime counts over 2021 resident population

Derived: registered_crimes / population_2021 * 1000

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

CoastINE · Blue Flag beaches

4beaches

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

ClimateIPMA · monthly temperature

11°C–35°C

Observed range · August 2025 – August 2026

Coolest: mean daily low, November 2025 · Warmest: mean daily high, July 2026

Not a full-year normal — our IPMA observations cover August 2025 – August 2026, so the coldest winter months are not represented.

IPMA — Instituto Português do Mar e da AtmosferaFree reuse with attribution to IPMA (open-data)

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Beja at a glance

The district of Beja is the Baixo Alentejo, the deep south of mainland Portugal — an immense, sparsely settled landscape of cork-oak and holm-oak montado, cereal plains and the great Alqueva reservoir, running from the Spanish frontier at Barrancos and Moura west to the Atlantic. It is anchored by Beja itself, a hilltop Roman-and-mediaeval county town, and takes in the mining and agricultural concelhos of the interior — Aljustrel, Castro Verde, Serpa and Moura — as well as Odemira, whose long coastline and river valleys put it in a different sub-region altogether.

Because the official price series is published by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, the headline figures above are for the Baixo Alentejo sub-region around Beja city, with full provenance; the breakdown that follows shows every one of the district’s municipalities — from the county town and the frontier concelhos to the coastal municipality of Odemira — so the wide internal spread is visible with the same discipline rather than hidden inside a single average.

What are the rules and costs in Beja?

Lifestyle is the human side of the decision; the rules and costs are the practical one. These are the two rules that shape most purchases in Beja — plus the guides and calculator to model your all-in costs.

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) in the Beja district is highly uneven: it is a modest, seasonal part of the picture across the agricultural interior, but a genuine driver on the Odemira coast, whose beaches, surf and the Rota Vicentina walking trails draw year-round visitors to the south-west Atlantic. AL is regulated at the municipal level under the national regime (Decreto-Lei 128/2014, as amended), and rules, registration status and any contention-style limits vary by concelho and change over time.

This is general information, not legal advice — confirm the current AL status and any local limits for a specific address with the relevant câmara municipal before assuming a property can be operated as a short-term rental.

What about annual property tax (IMI)?

Municipal Property Tax (IMI) is levied annually by each concelho within a band set nationally, so the exact rate depends on the municipality and the property’s taxable value (VPT) — the rate in Beja can differ from that of the coastal municipality of Odemira or the small plains and frontier concelhos of the Baixo Alentejo. Any specific rate we publish is sourced from the official register with its reference year; where the warehouse cannot yet source a rate it is shown as pending rather than estimated.

Common questions about Beja

How much does property cost per square metre in Beja?
In Baixo Alentejo, the median transacted (sold) price is about €914 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). For comparison, the national median sold price is about €2,168 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
How much do flats and villas cost per square metre in Beja?
In Baixo Alentejo, the median bank appraisal value is about €1,429 per square metre for flats and €1,122 per square metre for villas (June 2026). These are lender valuations for mortgage purposes, not transacted prices. Registered sales — what buyers actually paid — ran about €1,088 per square metre for newly built homes and €898 per square metre for existing homes (1st Quarter 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What is the average rent per square metre in Beja?
In Baixo Alentejo, the median new-lease rent — what tenants pay to let, a separate measure from any sale or asking price — is about €5.95 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What is the climate like in Beja?
Over the August 2025 – August 2026 climate observations available for Beja's anchor municipality, the mean daily low reached about 10.9°C (in November 2025) and the mean daily high about 34.7°C (in July 2026). This is the observed range for that window, not a full-year normal: our IPMA observations do not span a full calendar year, so the coldest winter months are not represented. Source: IPMA — Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Free reuse with attribution to IPMA (open-data).
What is the reported-crime rate in Beja?
Beja's anchor municipality records about 40.4 crimes/1k residents (Registered crimes per 1,000 residents, reference period 2025 crime counts over 2021 resident population). Derived as registered_crimes / population_2021 * 1000. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What healthcare access does Beja have?
Beja's anchor municipality reports medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 5.1 doctors/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants: 0.3 pharmacies/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; hospitals: 1 hospitals, reference period S7A2024. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
What is internet connectivity like in Beja?
Beja's anchor municipality reports fixed broadband internet accesses: 15,292 accesses, reference period S7A2025. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
How many Blue Flag beaches does Beja have?
Beja's anchor municipality reports blue flag beaches (regional total): 4 beaches (regional total, shared across the surrounding region), reference period S7A2026. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.

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Municipalities in Beja

Every municipality below has its own page, held to the same provenance discipline: a figure appears only when the warehouse can source it, shown with its INE source and reference period. Where it cannot, the page says so in place of the figure. Never an estimate.

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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