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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
€501
Owning per month
€494

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Starting from INE's median sale price of €1,564/m² and median new-lease rent of 5.6 €/m² a month in Vila Nova da Barquinha, 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 and renting cost about the same each month.

Rent a month
€501
Owning a month, not recovered
€494
Interest
€317
Running costs
€117
Return given up
€60
Cash out a month, if buying
€651

Gross rental yield in Vila Nova da Barquinha

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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PeriodVila Nova da Barquinha
Q2 20264.3%
Q1 20264.6%
Q4 20255.1%
Q3 20254.7%
Q2 20254.9%
Q1 20255.8%
Q4 20245.2%
Q3 20245.3%
Q2 20245.5%
Q1 20245.1%
Q4 20235.2%
Q3 20235.1%
Q2 20234.9%
Q1 20235.8%
Q4 20225.4%
Q3 20225.1%
Q2 20225.0%
Q1 20225.0%
Q4 20215.1%
Q3 20215.2%
Q2 20215.6%
Q1 20215.6%
Q4 20205.6%
Q3 20205.4%
Q2 20205.3%
Q1 20205.6%

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 Vila Nova da Barquinha

Asking prices have an 80% chance of landing between €1,852/m² and €2,210/m² by September 2027.

Expected, September 2027
€2,031/m²
Chance of a rise
100%

At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €140,760. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €534 a month. Banco de Portugal caps it at 50% of a household's net income.

Payment, two incomes
18%
Payment, one income
36%

Sellers ask 0.3% less than banks value homes at.

Gap today
−0.3%

38.5% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
36
Per 1,000 residents
4.6

Figures for Médio Tejo: Vila Nova da Barquinha has no reliable figures of its own.

Over the last 12 months, buyers domiciled abroad paid 9.9% less per m² than buyers living in Portugal.

Abroad against residents
−9.9%

Asking prices have fallen by 3% or more 5 times since 2016. The deepest began in August 2019.

Deepest fall
−21.9%
Recovery from the low
6 months

In 2025 the population grew by 148 while 40 homes were finished: 3.7 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
3.7
Population change, 2025
+148

16.5% of the 4,079 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
16.5%
Empty homes
675

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
0.0

Public bodies signed €2.6M of housing works here in 2025, and €2.6M since 2012.

Signed in 2025
€2.6M
Per resident, 2025
€341

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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