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Public housing works in Sintra

Public bodies signed €12.7M of housing works here in 2025, and €37.9M since 2012.

Signed in 2025
€12.7M
Per resident, 2025
€28

Public housing works signed in Sintra

Contracts to build and renovate housing published on Portal BASE, by the year they were signed, before VAT. Complete years only; the data runs to October 22, 2026.

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YearValue signed
2025€12,731,323
2024€8,975,942
2023€12,112,013
2022€171,484
2021€1,894,854
2020€311,615
2019€918,060
2018€311,655
2017€505
2016€280,692
2015€177,064
2014€0
2013€33,192
2012€0

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Contracts are placed in a municipality from the place of work they name; one that names several municipalities is split evenly between them. A district or region adds up its municipalities. The value is the price at signing; later changes to it are not added.

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Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €3,615/m² and €4,069/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€3,842/m²
Chance of a rise
93%

At the bank valuation, a 90 m² home costs €271,530. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,030 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
43%
Payment, one income
85%

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
€1,027
Owning per month
€969

Sellers ask 18.5% more than banks value homes at. A year ago the gap was +27.2%.

Gap today
+18.5%
Change in a year
−8.7 pp

90.2% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
1,062
Per 1,000 residents
2.4

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 7.8% more per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
+7.8%

Bank valuations have fallen by 3% or more once since 2011. That fall began in March 2011.

Deepest fall
−26.4%
Recovery from the low
45 months

In 2025 the population grew by 3,306 while 505 homes were finished: 6.5 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
6.5
Population change, 2025
+3,306

9.3% of the 184,095 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
9.3%
Empty homes
17,035

In 2025, 13% of the buildings finished were work on existing buildings: extensions, alterations and reconstructions.

Work on existing buildings, 2025
13%
Reconstructions per 100 new buildings
0.7

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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