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Portalegre

The 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.

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What does property cost in Portalegre?

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 · PortalegreSold · INE

€757/m²

Alto 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 · PortalegreRent · INE

€4.77/m²

Alto Alentejo

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

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

How Portalegre sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Portalegre· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · PortalegreMedian sold price · Portalegre: latest 757 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.757 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Portalegre sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Portalegre (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023506
3rd Quarter 2023508
4th Quarter 2023520
1st Quarter 2024514
2nd Quarter 2024533
3rd Quarter 2024549
4th Quarter 2024590
1st Quarter 2025647
2nd Quarter 2025682
3rd Quarter 2025715
4th Quarter 2025744
1st Quarter 2026757
Median sold price · PortalegreLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 757 · Min 431 · Max 757 · Range 326 · CAGR +9.1%/yr
Show all 26 rows
How Portalegre sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Portalegre (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019438
1st Quarter 2020431
2nd Quarter 2020433
3rd Quarter 2020459
4th Quarter 2020456
1st Quarter 2021470
2nd Quarter 2021455
3rd Quarter 2021457
4th Quarter 2021473
1st Quarter 2022471
2nd Quarter 2022486
3rd Quarter 2022498
4th Quarter 2022500
1st Quarter 2023500
2nd Quarter 2023506
3rd Quarter 2023508
4th Quarter 2023520
1st Quarter 2024514
2nd Quarter 2024533
3rd Quarter 2024549
4th Quarter 2024590
1st Quarter 2025647
2nd Quarter 2025682
3rd Quarter 2025715
4th Quarter 2025744
1st Quarter 2026757
Median sold price · PortalegreLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 757 · Min 431 · Max 757 · Range 326 · CAGR +9.1%/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 Portalegre?

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 Portalegre
FlatsMedian€1,232€/m²PeriodJune 2026
VillasMedian€966€/m²PeriodJune 2026
All housingMedian€1,063€/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 Portalegre
New dwellingsMedian€1,141€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Existing dwellingsMedian€718€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
All dwellingsMedian€757€/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 Portalegre 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 Portalegre?

Those trends describe Portalegre 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.

Portalegre on the map

The 15 municipalities that make up the Portalegre distrito. Select a municipality to open its concelho guide.

Alter do ChãoArronchesAvisCampo MaiorCastelo de VideCratoElvasFronteiraGaviãoMarvãoMonforteNisaPonte de SorPortalegreSousel
  1. 1. Alter do Chão
  2. 2. Arronches
  3. 3. Avis
  4. 4. Campo Maior
  5. 5. Castelo de Vide
  6. 6. Crato
  7. 7. Elvas
  8. 8. Fronteira
  9. 9. Gavião
  10. 10. Marvão
  11. 11. Monforte
  12. 12. Nisa
  13. 13. Ponte de Sor
  14. 14. Portalegre
  15. 15. Sousel

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

Portalegre 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 Alto Alentejo sub-region, which contains the city of Portalegre; they are not a district-wide aggregate. The whole district — 15 municipalities, all within the Alto Alentejo 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.

Alto Alentejo

Sub-region median: €757/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Alto Alentejo
PortalegreMedian sold€1,088€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Alter do ChãoMedian sold€461€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
ArronchesMedian sold€842€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
AvisMedian sold€767€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Campo MaiorMedian sold€697€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Castelo de VideMedian sold€705€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
CratoMedian sold€508€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
ElvasMedian sold€938€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
FronteiraMedian sold€596€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
GaviãoMedian sold€529€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
MarvãoMedian sold€654€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
MonforteMedian sold€544€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
NisaMedian sold€500€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Ponte de SorMedian sold€960€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
SouselMedian sold€668€/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 Portalegre 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 Portalegre today, each added as the data becomes available.

HealthcareINE · health access & supply

4.7doctors/1k inhab.

Medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

0.6pharmacies/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

10,273accesses

Fixed broadband Internet accesses · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

SafetyINE · reported crime

27.8

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

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

ClimateIPMA · monthly temperature

10°C–33°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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Portalegre at a glance

The district of Portalegre makes up the Alto Alentejo, the north-eastern corner of the Alentejo along the Spanish border — a landscape of open cork-oak and holm-oak montado, olive groves and cereal plains, rising in the north to the Serra de São Mamede natural park. It is anchored by Portalegre city beneath the mountains and takes in the marble-walled frontier fortress of Elvas (a UNESCO World Heritage garrison town), the mediaeval hilltop villages of Marvão and Castelo de Vide, and the reservoir-and-cork country around Ponte de Sor and Avis to the west.

Because the official price series is published by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, the headline figures above are for the Alto Alentejo sub-region around Portalegre city, with full provenance; the breakdown that follows shows every one of the district’s municipalities — from the city and the border town of Elvas to the smallest rural concelhos — 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 Portalegre?

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 Portalegre — 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 Portalegre district is a smaller, more seasonal part of the investment case than on the coast, driven by heritage and nature tourism — the UNESCO fortress town of Elvas, the mediaeval hilltop villages of Marvão and Castelo de Vide, and the walking country of the Serra de São Mamede. It plays a modest role in Portalegre 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 Portalegre can differ from that of the border town of Elvas or the small mountain and plains concelhos of the Alto 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 Portalegre

How much does property cost per square metre in Portalegre?
In Alto Alentejo, the median transacted (sold) price is about €757 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 Portalegre?
In Alto Alentejo, the median bank appraisal value is about €1,232 per square metre for flats and €966 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 €1,141 per square metre for newly built homes and €718 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 Portalegre?
In Alto Alentejo, the median new-lease rent — what tenants pay to let, a separate measure from any sale or asking price — is about €4.77 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What is the climate like in Portalegre?
Over the August 2025 – August 2026 climate observations available for Portalegre's anchor municipality, the mean daily low reached about 10.5°C (in November 2025) and the mean daily high about 32.8°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 Portalegre?
Portalegre's anchor municipality records about 27.8 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 Portalegre have?
Portalegre's anchor municipality reports medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 4.7 doctors/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants: 0.6 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 Portalegre?
Portalegre's anchor municipality reports fixed broadband internet accesses: 10,273 accesses, reference period S7A2025. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
How many Blue Flag beaches does Portalegre have?
Portalegre's anchor municipality reports blue flag beaches (regional total): 1 beaches (regional total, shared across the surrounding region), reference period S7A2026. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.

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Municipalities in Portalegre

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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