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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
€338
Owning per month
€226

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Starting from INE's median sale price of €715/m² and median new-lease rent of 3.8 €/m² a month in Sátão, 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 costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€338
Owning a month, not recovered
€226
Interest
€145
Running costs
€54
Return given up
€27
Cash out a month, if buying
€298

Gross rental yield in Sátão

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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PeriodSátão
Q2 20266.3%
Q1 20266.1%
Q4 20255.8%
Q3 20255.6%
Q2 20255.5%
Q1 20256.1%
Q4 20246.1%
Q3 20247.1%
Q2 20247.3%
Q1 20247.3%
Q4 20236.7%
Q3 20236.8%
Q2 20236.5%
Q1 20235.8%
Q4 20226.5%
Q3 20225.8%
Q2 20226.0%
Q1 20226.3%
Q4 20216.3%
Q3 20216.5%
Q2 20215.8%
Q1 20215.7%
Q4 20205.7%
Q3 20205.7%
Q2 20205.6%
Q1 20206.0%

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.

Other reports for Sátão

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €64,350. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €244 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
11%
Payment, one income
21%

1.6% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
39
Per 1,000 residents
3.5

Figures for Viseu Dão Lafões: Sátão 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%

In 2025 the population grew by 68 while 27 homes were finished: 2.5 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
2.5
Population change, 2025
+68

18.5% of the 9,445 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
18.5%
Empty homes
1,745

In 2025, 15% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
15%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
2.9

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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