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Foreign buyers in Penalva do Castelo

Figures for Viseu Dão Lafões: Penalva do Castelo has no reliable figures of its own.

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 12.5% less per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
−12.5%

What buyers from abroad paid against residents in Viseu Dão Lafões

Median price per m² paid by buyers with tax domicile abroad, against buyers domiciled in Portugal, over 12 months.

  • Viseu Dão Lafões
  • Same as residents
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PeriodViseu Dão Lafões
Q2 2026-12.5%
Q1 2026-24.0%
Q4 2025-22.1%
Q3 2025-17.6%
Q2 2025-15.1%
Q1 2025-10.1%
Q4 2024-4.7%
Q3 2024-6.2%
Q2 20244.1%
Q1 20247.7%
Q4 202311.2%
Q3 20234.3%
Q2 20237.0%
Q1 20236.8%
Q4 2022-7.7%
Q3 2022-3.1%
Q2 2022-11.5%
Q1 2022-12.1%
Q4 2021-11.4%
Q3 2021-7.2%
Q2 2021-17.9%
Q1 2021-30.8%
Q4 2020-37.2%
Q3 2020-32.7%
Q2 2020-26.2%
Q1 2020-24.7%
Q4 2019-21.1%

Price per m² by buyer, Viseu Dão Lafões

  • Buyers domiciled abroad
  • Buyers domiciled in Portugal
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PeriodBuyers domiciled abroadBuyers domiciled in Portugal
Q2 2026€893/m²€1,020/m²
Q1 2026€760/m²€1,000/m²
Q4 2025€758/m²€973/m²
Q3 2025€756/m²€918/m²
Q2 2025€766/m²€902/m²
Q1 2025€769/m²€855/m²
Q4 2024€773/m²€811/m²
Q3 2024€743/m²€792/m²
Q2 2024€811/m²€779/m²
Q1 2024€810/m²€752/m²
Q4 2023€835/m²€751/m²
Q3 2023€783/m²€751/m²
Q2 2023€783/m²€732/m²
Q1 2023€802/m²€751/m²
Q4 2022€710/m²€769/m²
Q3 2022€742/m²€766/m²
Q2 2022€691/m²€781/m²
Q1 2022€676/m²€769/m²
Q4 2021€668/m²€754/m²
Q3 2021€682/m²€735/m²
Q2 2021€593/m²€722/m²
Q1 2021€511/m²€738/m²
Q4 2020€450/m²€717/m²
Q3 2020€489/m²€727/m²
Q2 2020€541/m²€733/m²
Q1 2020€545/m²€724/m²
Q4 2019€563/m²€714/m²

Who lives here

Foreign residents with legal status (INE, 2021 to 2023, when the series ended) and net migration, the people who moved in minus those who left.

Foreign residents, Penalva do Castelo, 2023
107
1.5% of residents
Net migration, Penalva do Castelo, 2025
+126
17.6 per 1,000 residents

Tax domicile is not nationality: a foreign citizen living in Portugal counts as resident, and a Portuguese emigrant buying from abroad counts as foreign. INE withholds the split where there are few sales, so smaller places show the nearest region that has it.

Other reports for Penalva do Castelo

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €39,150. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €149 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
6%
Payment, one income
13%

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
€374
Owning per month
€137

24.3% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
13
Per 1,000 residents
1.8

In 2025 the population grew by 25 while 21 homes were finished: 1.2 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
1.2
Population change, 2025
+25

17.5% of the 5,649 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
17.5%
Empty homes
986

In 2025, 23% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
23%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
11.1

Public bodies signed €29.8K of housing works here in 2020, and €100.9K since 2012.

Signed in 2020
€29.8K
Per resident, 2020
€4

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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