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Public housing works in Espinho

Public bodies signed €2.5M of housing works here in 2025, and €3.7M since 2012.

Signed in 2025
€2.5M
Per resident, 2025
€76

Public housing works signed in Espinho

Contracts to build and renovate housing published on Portal BASE, by the year they were signed, before VAT. Complete years only; the data runs to October 22, 2026.

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YearValue signed
2025€2,456,078
2024€296,276
2023€40,543
2022€101,763
2021€143,543
2020€0
2019€80,500
2018€88,024
2017€7,660
2016€10,483
2015€0
2014€349,500
2013€146,871
2012€0

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Contracts are placed in a municipality from the place of work they name; one that names several municipalities is split evenly between them. A district or region adds up its municipalities. The value is the price at signing; later changes to it are not added.

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Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €3,009/m² and €3,742/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€3,376/m²
Chance of a rise
93%

At the bank valuation, a 90 m² home costs €197,640. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €750 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
30%
Payment, one income
59%

Owning and renting a 90 m² home cost about the same each month. 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
€903
Owning per month
€883

Sellers ask 34.1% more than banks value homes at. A year ago the gap was +24.3%.

Gap today
+34.1%
Change in a year
+9.9 pp

35.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
86
Per 1,000 residents
2.6

Figures for Área Metropolitana do Porto: Espinho has no reliable figures of its own.

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 31.6% more per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
+31.6%

Asking prices have fallen by 3% or more 7 times since 2015. The deepest began in July 2015.

Deepest fall
−21.3%
Recovery from the low
18 months

In 2025 the population grew by 56 while 62 homes were finished: 0.9 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
0.9
Population change, 2025
+56

10.1% of the 16,023 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
10.1%
Empty homes
1,626

In 2025, 9% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
9%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
0.0

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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