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The 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.

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What does property cost in Viseu?

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 · ViseuSold · INE

€990/m²

Viseu Dão Lafões

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 · ViseuRent · INE

€5.88/m²

Viseu Dão Lafões

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

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

How Viseu sold prices have moved

  • Median sold price · Viseu· Sold
Latest data: 1st Quarter 2026Median sold price · ViseuMedian sold price · Viseu: latest 990 €/m² in 1st Quarter 2026.990 €/m² · 1st Quarter 2026

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

How Viseu sold prices have moved — data table — most recent 12 periods
PeriodMedian sold price · Viseu (€/m²)
2nd Quarter 2023734
3rd Quarter 2023752
4th Quarter 2023753
1st Quarter 2024756
2nd Quarter 2024780
3rd Quarter 2024790
4th Quarter 2024809
1st Quarter 2025847
2nd Quarter 2025893
3rd Quarter 2025905
4th Quarter 2025961
1st Quarter 2026990
Median sold price · ViseuLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 990 · Min 708 · Max 990 · Range 282 · CAGR +5.5%/yr
Show all 26 rows
How Viseu sold prices have moved — data table — full series (26 periods)
PeriodMedian sold price · Viseu (€/m²)
4th Quarter 2019708
1st Quarter 2020714
2nd Quarter 2020726
3rd Quarter 2020722
4th Quarter 2020711
1st Quarter 2021732
2nd Quarter 2021714
3rd Quarter 2021730
4th Quarter 2021748
1st Quarter 2022764
2nd Quarter 2022780
3rd Quarter 2022765
4th Quarter 2022767
1st Quarter 2023753
2nd Quarter 2023734
3rd Quarter 2023752
4th Quarter 2023753
1st Quarter 2024756
2nd Quarter 2024780
3rd Quarter 2024790
4th Quarter 2024809
1st Quarter 2025847
2nd Quarter 2025893
3rd Quarter 2025905
4th Quarter 2025961
1st Quarter 2026990
Median sold price · ViseuLatest 1st Quarter 2026: 990 · Min 708 · Max 990 · Range 282 · CAGR +5.5%/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 Viseu?

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 Viseu
FlatsMedian€1,541€/m²PeriodJune 2026
VillasMedian€971€/m²PeriodJune 2026
All housingMedian€1,163€/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 Viseu
New dwellingsMedian€1,418€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Existing dwellingsMedian€908€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
All dwellingsMedian€990€/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 Viseu 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 Viseu?

Those trends describe Viseu 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.

Viseu 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 Viseu Dão Lafões sub-region, which contains the city of Viseu; they are not a district-wide aggregate. The full district — 24 municipalities spread across the Viseu Dão Lafões, the Douro, Tâmega e Sousa and Região de Coimbra 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.

Viseu Dão Lafões

Sub-region median: €990/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Viseu Dão Lafões
ViseuMedian sold€1,595€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Carregal do SalMedian sold€697€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Castro DaireMedian sold€652€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
MangualdeMedian sold€806€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
NelasMedian sold€787€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Oliveira de FradesMedian sold€968€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Penalva do CasteloMedian sold€429€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Santa Comba DãoMedian sold€767€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
São Pedro do SulMedian sold€970€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
SátãoMedian sold€715€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
TondelaMedian sold€810€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Vila Nova de PaivaMedian sold€340€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
VouzelaMedian sold€625€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026

Douro

Sub-region median: €782/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Douro
LamegoMedian sold€973€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
ArmamarMedian sold€403€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
Moimenta da BeiraMedian sold€571€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
PenedonoMedian sold€441€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
São João da PesqueiraMedian sold€446€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
SernancelheMedian sold€297€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
TabuaçoMedian sold€582€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
TaroucaMedian sold€750€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026

Tâmega e Sousa

Sub-region median: €1,234/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Tâmega e Sousa
CinfãesMedian sold€509€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026
ResendeMedian sold€637€/m²Period1st Quarter 2026

Região de Coimbra

Sub-region median: €1,413/m²

Median transacted price per square metre by municipality in Região de Coimbra
MortáguaMedian sold€738€/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 Viseu 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 Viseu today, each added as the data becomes available.

HealthcareINE · health access & supply

8.9doctors/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

3hospitals

Hospitals · S7A2024

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

ConnectivityINE · fixed broadband

45,617accesses

Fixed broadband Internet accesses · S7A2025

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), PortugalCC BY 4.0

SafetyINE · reported crime

28.1

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

0beaches

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

8°C–31°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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Viseu at a glance

The district of Viseu sits on the granite uplands of the Beira Alta in Portugal’s Centro-Norte, built around the cathedral city of Viseu and the terraced vineyards of the Dão, one of the country’s oldest demarcated wine regions. Its territory reaches north across the Serra de Montemuro to the south bank of the Douro — Lamego, Tabuaço and the port-wine terraces — and west toward the Serra do Caramulo, giving the district a strongly rural, agricultural and increasingly wine-tourism-driven economy well away from the coastal metropolitan markets.

Because the official price series is published by sub-region and municipality rather than by district, the headline figures above are for the Viseu Dão Lafões sub-region around Viseu city, with full provenance; the breakdown that follows shows every municipality in the district — including the Douro-valley concelhos that INE groups separately to the north — 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 Viseu?

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 Viseu — 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) is a growing part of the investment case in the Viseu district, driven by wine tourism in the Dão and, along the northern edge, by the Douro valley’s port-wine estates and river cruises around Lamego and São João da Pesqueira. It plays a smaller role in the city of Viseu and the rural interior concelhos. 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 Viseu can differ from that of the Dão wine concelhos or the Douro-valley municipalities in the north of the district. 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 Viseu

How much does property cost per square metre in Viseu?
In Viseu Dão Lafões, the median transacted (sold) price is about €990 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 Viseu?
In Viseu Dão Lafões, the median bank appraisal value is about €1,541 per square metre for flats and €971 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 €1,418 per square metre for newly built homes and €908 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 Viseu?
In Viseu Dão Lafões, the median new-lease rent — what tenants pay to let, a separate measure from any sale or asking price — is about €5.88 per square metre (1st Quarter 2026). Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal, CC BY 4.0.
What is the climate like in Viseu?
Over the August 2025 – August 2026 climate observations available for Viseu's anchor municipality, the mean daily low reached about 8.5°C (in November 2025) and the mean daily high about 30.6°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 Viseu?
Viseu's anchor municipality records about 28.1 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 Viseu have?
Viseu's anchor municipality reports medical doctors per 1,000 inhabitants: 8.9 doctors/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; pharmacies per 1,000 inhabitants: 0.2 pharmacies/1k inhab., reference period S7A2025; hospitals: 3 hospitals, reference period S7A2024. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
What is internet connectivity like in Viseu?
Viseu's anchor municipality reports fixed broadband internet accesses: 45,617 accesses, reference period S7A2025. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.
How many Blue Flag beaches does Viseu have?
Viseu's anchor municipality reports blue flag beaches (regional total): 0 beaches (regional total, shared across the surrounding region), reference period S7A2026. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal.

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Municipalities in Viseu

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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