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People and new homes in Esposende

In 2025 the population grew by 462 while 90 homes were finished: 5.1 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
5.1
Population change, 2025
+462

Population change and homes finished in Esposende

The population's yearly change, net migration plus births minus deaths, against homes finished. INE.

Population change

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YearPopulation change
2025462
2024741
20231,067
20221,174
2021328

Homes finished

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YearHomes finished
202590
2024282
202386
2022241
202159

Year by year

YearNet migrationBirths minus deathsPopulation changeHomes finished
2021+374−46+32859
2022+1,157+17+1,174241
2023+1,077−10+1,06786
2024+746−5+741282
2025+472−10+46290

Population change is INE's net migration plus births minus deaths, by municipality since 2021. Homes finished are dwellings completed in new buildings. A home houses a household, not a person: two or three new residents per new home is roughly one home per new household.

Other reports for Esposende

Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €2,688/m² and €3,130/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€2,909/m²
Chance of a rise
99%

At the bank valuation, a 90 m² home costs €175,500. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €666 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
27%
Payment, one income
54%

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
€700
Owning per month
€704

Sellers ask 28.0% more than banks value homes at. A year ago the gap was +27.6%.

Gap today
+28.0%
Change in a year
+0.4 pp

15.2% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
187
Per 1,000 residents
4.8

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 4.1% less per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
−4.1%

Bank valuations have fallen by 3% or more 13 times since 2015. The deepest began in April 2015.

Deepest fall
−21.9%
Recovery from the low
28 months

6.7% of the 22,045 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
6.7%
Empty homes
1,473

In 2025, 9% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
9%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
0.0

Public bodies signed €16.9K of housing works here in 2025, and €580K since 2012.

Signed in 2025
€16.9K
Per resident, 2025
€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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