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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
€338
Owning per month
€330

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Starting from INE's median sale price of €1,045/m² and median new-lease rent of 3.8 €/m² a month in Viana do Alentejo, 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
€338
Owning a month, not recovered
€330
Interest
€212
Running costs
€78
Return given up
€40
Cash out a month, if buying
€435

Gross rental yield in Viana do Alentejo

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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PeriodViana do Alentejo
Q2 20264.3%
Q1 20264.5%
Q4 20254.8%
Q3 20254.3%
Q2 20254.6%
Q1 20255.6%
Q4 20235.4%
Q3 20235.6%
Q2 20235.2%
Q1 20235.3%
Q4 20225.7%
Q3 20226.6%
Q2 20227.8%
Q1 20227.6%
Q4 20217.1%
Q4 20204.8%
Q3 20206.1%
Q2 20205.6%

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.

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Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €1,253/m² and €1,822/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€1,537/m²
Chance of a rise
71%

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €94,050. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €357 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
14%
Payment, one income
29%

151.0% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
8
Per 1,000 residents
1.4

Figures for Alentejo: Viana do Alentejo 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 8 times since 2017. The deepest began in February 2020.

Deepest fall
−15.6%
Recovery from the low
8 months

In 2025 the population grew by 42 while 2 homes were finished: 21.0 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
21.0
Population change, 2025
+42

21.5% of the 3,583 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
21.5%
Empty homes
770

In 2025, 67% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
67%
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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