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Renovation in Alcobaça

In 2025, 7% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
7%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
4.6

Buildings finished in Alcobaça, 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
20258730494
2024144504153
2023128743142
20221121530130
2021881410103
2020792500104
201962121176
201862151078
201748160064
2016793410114
201555344194
2014534440101
2013803600116
20121204600166
20111354500180

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 Alcobaça

Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €2,717/m² and €3,089/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€2,903/m²
Chance of a rise
100%

At the bank valuation, a 90 m² home costs €155,250. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €589 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
24%
Payment, one income
49%

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
€630
Owning per month
€592

Sellers ask 38.4% more than banks value homes at. A year ago the gap was +30.5%.

Gap today
+38.4%
Change in a year
+7.9 pp

120.2% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
394
Per 1,000 residents
6.5

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 54.4% more per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
+54.4%

Bank valuations have fallen by 3% or more 11 times since 2015. The deepest began in September 2015.

Deepest fall
−19.7%
Recovery from the low
5 months

In 2025 the population grew by 400 while 154 homes were finished: 2.6 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
2.6
Population change, 2025
+400

14.6% of the 35,445 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
14.6%
Empty homes
5,158

Public bodies signed €176.9K of housing works here in 2017, and €176.9K since 2012.

Signed in 2017
€176.9K
Per resident, 2017
€3

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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