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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
€499
Owning per month
€482

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Starting from INE's median sale price of €1,525/m² and median new-lease rent of 5.5 €/m² a month in Paços de Ferreira, 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 and renting cost about the same each month.

Rent a month
€499
Owning a month, not recovered
€482
Interest
€309
Running costs
€114
Return given up
€58
Cash out a month, if buying
€635

Gross rental yield in Paços de Ferreira

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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PeriodPaços de Ferreira
Q2 20264.4%
Q1 20264.6%
Q4 20254.4%
Q3 20254.4%
Q2 20254.6%
Q1 20254.7%
Q4 20244.7%
Q3 20244.9%
Q2 20244.9%
Q1 20244.8%
Q4 20234.8%
Q3 20234.7%
Q2 20234.6%
Q1 20234.6%
Q4 20224.4%
Q3 20224.3%
Q2 20224.4%
Q1 20224.8%
Q4 20215.1%
Q3 20215.1%
Q2 20215.0%
Q1 20214.9%
Q4 20204.7%
Q3 20204.9%
Q2 20205.0%
Q1 20205.3%

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.

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Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €1,992/m² and €2,505/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€2,249/m²
Chance of a rise
88%

At the bank valuation, a 90 m² home costs €142,560. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €541 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
25%
Payment, one income
49%

Sellers ask 27.3% more than banks value homes at. A year ago the gap was +23.8%.

Gap today
+27.3%
Change in a year
+3.5 pp

192.9% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
609
Per 1,000 residents
10.6

Figures for Tâmega e Sousa: Paços de Ferreira has no reliable figures of its own.

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 17.8% less per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
−17.8%

Bank valuations have fallen by 3% or more 14 times since 2015. The deepest began in December 2015.

Deepest fall
−15.4%
Recovery from the low
3 months

In 2025 the population grew by 439 while 213 homes were finished: 2.1 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
2.1
Population change, 2025
+439

8.8% of the 22,368 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
8.8%
Empty homes
1,971

In 2025, 19% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
19%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
0.0

Public bodies signed €13.8M of housing works here in 2025, and €24.1M since 2012.

Signed in 2025
€13.8M
Per resident, 2025
€241

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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