In the 1st quarter of 2025, the median house price of the 40,163 family dwellings transacted in Portugal was 1,951 €/m2, following a variation rate of 18.7% in relation to the 1st quarter of 2024 (15.5% in the previous quarter). The number of family dwellings sales in Portugal increased by 24.9% compared to the same quarter of 2024. The median house price increased, compared to the same period in 2024, in the 26 NUTS 3 sub-regions, with the Alto Alentejo standing out with the highest growth (51.6%).
The sub-regions with the highest median house prices – Grande Lisboa, Algarve, Região Autónoma da Madeira, Península de Setúbal, and Área Metropolitana do Porto – also presented the highest values in both categories of the purchaser's tax residence (national territory and foreign). In Grande Lisboa and Área Metropolitana do Porto sub-regions, the median price (€/m2) of transactions carried out by purchasers with foreign tax residence exceeded the price of transactions by purchasers with tax residence in the national territory by 52.5% and 32.3%, respectively.
In the 1st quarter of 2025, house prices accelerated in 16 of the 24 municipalities with more than 100 thousand inhabitants (in 19 in the 4th quarter of 2024), with the municipalities of Santa Maria da Feira (+15.8 p.p.) and Cascais (+14.8 p.p.) showing the largest increases. The biggest decrease in the year-on-year rate of change occurred in the municipality of Funchal (-40.2 p.p.). The municipalities of Lisboa and Porto recorded decreases of 1.1 p.p. and 2.0 p.p. in the year-on-year growth rates from the 4th quarter of 2024 to the 1st quarter of 2025. The municipalities of Lisboa (4,492 €/m2), Cascais (4,477 €/m2), Oeiras (3,983 €/m2), Porto (3,066 €/m2), and Odivelas (3,048 €/m2) had the highest house prices.