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Renovation in Vale de Cambra

In 2025, 26% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
26%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
7.1

Buildings finished in Vale de Cambra, by kind of work

Buildings completed each year: new construction, extensions, alterations and reconstructions. INE.

  • Reconstructions
  • Alterations
  • Extensions
  • New construction
Show the numbers
YearNew constructionExtensionsAlterationsReconstructionsTotal
20254293357
20242885243
202341151360
20222093133
202133172052
202029145250
201932202761
201827222556
201742170564
201620201546
2015342001064
2014312221267
201327183957
201253182477
201154251181

INE counts buildings, not homes, and every kind of building, not only housing. A reconstruction rebuilds an existing building; an alteration changes its layout or use.

Other reports for Vale de Cambra

Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €1,071/m² and €1,360/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€1,216/m²
Chance of a rise
71%

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €108,000. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €410 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
16%
Payment, one income
32%

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
€526
Owning per month
€379

Sellers ask 12.6% less than banks value homes at.

Gap today
−12.6%

82.3% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
89
Per 1,000 residents
4.0

Figures for Área Metropolitana do Porto: Vale de Cambra 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 6 times since 2017. The deepest began in October 2021.

Deepest fall
−32.7%
Recovery from the low
19 months

In 2025 the population fell by 38 while 48 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025
48
Population change, 2025
−38

12.1% of the 11,922 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
12.1%
Empty homes
1,438

Public bodies signed €3.2M of housing works here in 2025, and €5.6M since 2012.

Signed in 2025
€3.2M
Per resident, 2025
€145

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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