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Owning a 90 m² home costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the median sale price. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
€583
Owning per month
€455

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Starting from INE's median sale price of €1,442/m² and median new-lease rent of 6.5 €/m² a month in Batalha, and a mortgage rate of 3.0%.

Assumptions
90
3
1
IMI, insurance, maintenance and condominium.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
IMT, stamp duty, registration and fees, paid once.

Owning costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€583
Owning a month, not recovered
€455
Interest
€292
Running costs
€108
Return given up
€55
Cash out a month, if buying
€601

Gross rental yield in Batalha

A year's rent as a share of the sale price, from INE's medians. Higher means rent is dear compared with buying.

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PeriodBatalha
Q2 20265.4%
Q1 20265.5%
Q4 20255.6%
Q3 20256.1%
Q2 20256.3%
Q1 20256.3%
Q4 20247.3%
Q3 20246.7%
Q2 20246.7%
Q1 20246.8%
Q4 20236.4%
Q3 20237.3%
Q2 20237.6%
Q1 20237.2%
Q4 20226.2%
Q3 20225.7%
Q2 20225.6%
Q1 20225.7%
Q4 20215.6%
Q3 20215.5%
Q2 20215.1%
Q1 20215.0%
Q4 20205.2%
Q3 20205.5%
Q2 20205.6%
Q1 20205.6%

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance.

Other reports for Batalha

Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €1,349/m² and €1,770/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€1,559/m²
Chance of a rise
81%

At the bank valuation, a 90 m² home costs €121,680. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €462 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
18%
Payment, one income
35%

Sellers ask 4.7% more than banks value homes at.

Gap today
+4.7%

40.7% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
87
Per 1,000 residents
5.1

Figures for Região de Leiria: Batalha has no reliable figures of its own.

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 12.9% less per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
−12.9%

Asking prices have fallen by 3% or more 9 times since 2016. The deepest began in March 2020.

Deepest fall
−15.4%
Recovery from the low
14 months

In 2025 the population grew by 76 while 69 homes were finished: 1.1 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
1.1
Population change, 2025
+76

14.5% of the 8,476 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
14.5%
Empty homes
1,225

In 2025, 15% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
15%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
0.0

Public bodies signed €182.7K of housing works here in 2022, and €927.5K since 2012.

Signed in 2022
€182.7K
Per resident, 2022
€11

Data: INE, ECB and others · updated October 27, 2026

Asking prices and bank valuations are not sale prices. This is a description of public data, not financial advice.

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