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Castelo Branco

The 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.

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What does property cost in Castelo Branco?

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 · Castelo BrancoSold · INE

€750/m²

Beira Baixa

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
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Median new-lease rent · Castelo BrancoRent · INE

€4.86/m²

Beira Baixa

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

Sub-region level (Beira Baixa) — INE publishes the rent series by NUTS-III only, so there is no separate concelho-level rent figure for the Castelo Branco municipalities.

How Castelo Branco sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Castelo Branco· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · Castelo BrancoMedian sold price · Castelo Branco: latest 750 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.750 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Castelo Branco sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Castelo Branco (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023572
3rd Quarter 2023558
4th Quarter 2023556
1st Quarter 2024555
2nd Quarter 2024556
3rd Quarter 2024565
4th Quarter 2024583
1st Quarter 2025619
2nd Quarter 2025673
3rd Quarter 2025709
4th Quarter 2025741
1st Quarter 2026750
Median sold price · Castelo BrancoLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 750 · Min 555 · Max 750 · Range 195 · CAGR +4.4%/yr
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How Castelo Branco sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Castelo Branco (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019573
1st Quarter 2020590
2nd Quarter 2020590
3rd Quarter 2020585
4th Quarter 2020580
1st Quarter 2021583
2nd Quarter 2021568
3rd Quarter 2021575
4th Quarter 2021580
1st Quarter 2022588
2nd Quarter 2022600
3rd Quarter 2022615
4th Quarter 2022618
1st Quarter 2023595
2nd Quarter 2023572
3rd Quarter 2023558
4th Quarter 2023556
1st Quarter 2024555
2nd Quarter 2024556
3rd Quarter 2024565
4th Quarter 2024583
1st Quarter 2025619
2nd Quarter 2025673
3rd Quarter 2025709
4th Quarter 2025741
1st Quarter 2026750
Median sold price · Castelo BrancoLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 750 · Min 555 · Max 750 · Range 195 · CAGR +4.4%/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 Castelo Branco?

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 Castelo Branco
FlatsMedian€1,275€/m²PeriodJune 2026
VillasMedian€840€/m²PeriodJune 2026
All housingMedian€1,047€/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 Castelo Branco
New dwellingsMedian€1,042€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Existing dwellingsMedian€724€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
All dwellingsMedian€750€/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 Castelo Branco 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 Castelo Branco?

Those trends describe Castelo Branco 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.

Castelo Branco on the map

The 11 municipalities that make up the Castelo Branco distrito. Select a municipality to open its concelho guide.

BelmonteCastelo BrancoCovilhãFundãoIdanha-a-NovaOleirosPenamacorProença-a-NovaSertãVila de ReiVila Velha de Ródão
  1. 1. Belmonte
  2. 2. Castelo Branco
  3. 3. Covilhã
  4. 4. Fundão
  5. 5. Idanha-a-Nova
  6. 6. Oleiros
  7. 7. Penamacor
  8. 8. Proença-a-Nova
  9. 9. Sertã
  10. 10. Vila de Rei
  11. 11. Vila Velha de Ródão

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

Castelo Branco 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 Beira Baixa sub-region, which contains the city of Castelo Branco; they are not a district-wide aggregate. The full district — 11 municipalities spread across the Beira Baixa and Beiras e Serra da Estrela sub-regions — 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.

Beira Baixa

Sub-region median: €750/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Beira Baixa
Castelo BrancoMedian sold€1,026€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Idanha-a-NovaMedian sold€412€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
OleirosMedian sold€556€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
PenamacorMedian sold€395€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Proença-a-NovaMedian sold€584€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
SertãMedian sold€915€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Vila de ReiMedian sold€864€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Vila Velha de RódãoMedian sold€395€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026

Beiras e Serra da Estrela

Sub-region median: €694/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Beiras e Serra da Estrela
BelmonteMedian sold€500€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
CovilhãMedian sold€1,116€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
FundãoMedian sold€803€/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 Castelo Branco 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 Castelo Branco today, each added as the data becomes available.

HealthcareINE · health access & supply

5.2doctors/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

26,094accesses

Fixed broadband Internet accesses · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

SafetyINE · reported crime

33.4

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

9°C–34°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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Castelo Branco at a glance

The district of Castelo Branco occupies the Beira Baixa, a warm, thinly populated plateau of olive groves, cork oaks and open country in Portugal’s central-east interior, bounded by the Tagus to the south and the Spanish border to the east. It is built around the Templar city of Castelo Branco and takes in the schist villages of the Sertã and Oleiros uplands to the west, the border reaches of Idanha-a-Nova and Penamacor, and — climbing north into the Cova da Beira beneath the Serra da Estrela — the textile towns of Covilhã and Fundão and the historic Jewish quarter of Belmonte.

Because the official price series is published by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, the headline figures above are for the Beira Baixa sub-region around Castelo Branco city, with full provenance; the breakdown that follows shows every municipality in the district — including the northern Cova da Beira concelhos that INE groups under Beiras e Serra da Estrela — 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 Castelo Branco?

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 Castelo Branco — 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 Castelo Branco district is a smaller, more seasonal part of the investment case than on the coast, driven by nature and heritage tourism — the schist villages of the interior, the Tagus International natural park along the Spanish border, and the Serra da Estrela slopes above Covilhã and the Cova da Beira. It plays a modest role in Castelo Branco city and the rural interior. 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 Castelo Branco can differ from that of the schist-village concelhos of the interior or the Cova da Beira towns of Covilhã and Fundão to the north. 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 Castelo Branco

How much does property cost per square metre in Castelo Branco?
In Beira Baixa, the median transacted (sold) price is about €750 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 Castelo Branco?
In Beira Baixa, the median bank appraisal value is about €1,275 per square metre for flats and €840 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 €1,042 per square metre for newly built homes and €724 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 Castelo Branco?
In Beira Baixa, the median new-lease rent — what tenants pay to let, a separate measure from any sale or asking price — is about €4.86 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What is the climate like in Castelo Branco?
Over the August 2025 – August 2026 climate observations available for Castelo Branco's anchor municipality, the mean daily low reached about 9.1°C (in November 2025) and the mean daily high about 34.3°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 Castelo Branco?
Castelo Branco's anchor municipality records about 33.4 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 Castelo Branco have?
Castelo Branco's anchor municipality reports medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 5.2 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 Castelo Branco?
Castelo Branco's anchor municipality reports fixed broadband internet accesses: 26,094 accesses, reference period S7A2025. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
How many Blue Flag beaches does Castelo Branco have?
Castelo Branco'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 Castelo Branco

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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