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Renting a 90 m² home costs less each month than owning 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
€624
Owning per month
€774

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Starting from INE's median sale price of €2,452/m² and median new-lease rent of 6.9 €/m² a month in São Brás de Alportel, 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.

Renting costs less each month than owning.

Rent a month
€624
Owning a month, not recovered
€774
Interest
€497
Running costs
€184
Return given up
€94
Cash out a month, if buying
€1,021

Gross rental yield in São Brás de Alportel

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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PeriodSão Brás de Alportel
Q2 20263.4%
Q1 20263.5%
Q4 20253.7%
Q3 20254.2%
Q2 20254.5%
Q1 20254.4%
Q4 20244.1%
Q3 20243.6%
Q2 20243.8%
Q1 20243.8%
Q4 20234.0%
Q3 20233.6%
Q2 20233.6%
Q1 20233.6%
Q4 20223.5%
Q3 20223.6%
Q2 20224.0%
Q1 20223.8%
Q4 20214.0%
Q3 20214.0%
Q2 20214.2%
Q1 20214.3%
Q4 20204.8%
Q3 20204.7%
Q2 20204.6%
Q1 20204.4%

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 €3,578/m² and €3,994/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€3,786/m²
Chance of a rise
97%

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €220,680. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €837 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
35%
Payment, one income
69%

34.0% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
55
Per 1,000 residents
4.5

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 24.3% more per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
+24.3%

Asking prices have fallen by 3% or more 4 times since 2015. The deepest began in December 2015.

Deepest fall
−10.6%
Recovery from the low
3 months

In 2025 the population grew by 54 while 28 homes were finished: 1.9 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
1.9
Population change, 2025
+54

8.5% of the 6,875 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
8.5%
Empty homes
586

In 2025, 32% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
32%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
0.0

Public bodies signed €12.7K of housing works here in 2025, and €234.9K since 2012.

Signed in 2025
€12.7K
Per resident, 2025
€1

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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