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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
€375
Owning per month
€337

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Starting from INE's median sale price of €1,066/m² and median new-lease rent of 4.2 €/m² a month in Mora, 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
€375
Owning a month, not recovered
€337
Interest
€216
Running costs
€80
Return given up
€41
Cash out a month, if buying
€444

Gross rental yield in Mora

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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PeriodMora
Q2 20264.7%
Q1 20264.8%
Q4 20254.8%
Q2 20254.7%
Q1 20255.0%
Q4 20245.3%
Q3 20247.0%
Q1 20246.6%

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 Mora

Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €2,056/m² and €2,299/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€2,178/m²
Chance of a rise
100%

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €95,940. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €364 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
15%
Payment, one income
29%

13.9% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
3
Per 1,000 residents
0.7

Figures for Alentejo: Mora has no reliable figures of its own.

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 24.9% more per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
+24.9%

Asking prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2022. That fall began in December 2022.

Deepest fall
−17.5%
Recovery from the low
14 months

In 2025 the population fell by 16 while 3 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025
3
Population change, 2025
−16

20.9% of the 3,826 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
20.9%
Empty homes
799

In 2025, 25% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
25%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
0.0

Public bodies signed €6.8K of housing works here in 2012, and €6.8K since 2012.

Signed in 2012
€6.8K
Per resident, 2012
€2

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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