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Housing

Portugal’s figures on housing costs, rents, prices and building.

The cost of housing

Housing cost overburden, tenants at market rent

27,2 % of tenants at market rentin 2025source · Eurostat

Down from 2024. Above the European Union average.

2024:30,3European Union:18,6

Finland 12,3Romania 56,0

Among the 27 EU countries in 2025, the lowest value is 12,3 (Finland) and the highest is 56,0 (Romania); the EU average is 18,6. Portugal (27,2) ranks 7th from the highest.

All the countries

What this number is

Among people living in a home rented at market price, it is the share whose household spends more than 40 % of its disposable income on housing. Disposable income is what the household receives, from work, investment and social benefits, after the taxes and social contributions it pays; housing allowances are deducted from both the income and the housing costs.

What share of tenants at market rent are in households where total housing costs, after deducting housing allowances, take more than 40 % of what the household receives from work, investment and social benefits, after paying taxes and social contributions (disposable income), also after deducting housing allowances?

Housing cost overburden

6,3 % of the populationin 2025source · Eurostat

Down from 2024. Below the European Union average.

2024:6,9European Union:7,7

Cyprus 2,4Greece 26,4

Among the 27 EU countries in 2025, the lowest value is 2,4 (Cyprus) and the highest is 26,4 (Greece); the EU average is 7,7. Portugal (6,3) ranks 13th from the highest.

All the countries

This total mixes very different situations, and the European Commission says it should be read together with the breakdown by tenure status.

What this number is

Across all tenure statuses (owned with or without a mortgage, rented at market price or at a reduced rent or free), it is the share of people whose household spends more than 40 % of its disposable income on housing. Disposable income is what the household receives, from work, investment and social benefits, after the taxes and social contributions it pays; housing allowances are deducted from both the income and the housing costs.

What share of people, whether their home is owned with or without a mortgage or rented at market price or at a reduced rent or free (all tenure statuses), are in households where total housing costs, after deducting housing allowances, take more than 40 % of what the household receives from work, investment and social benefits, after paying taxes and social contributions (disposable income), also after deducting housing allowances?

Rents

Prices excluding housing

2,56 average % change over twelve monthsin August 2026source · INE

Prices excluding housing, twelve-month average change, from December nineteen ninety-two to August twenty twenty-six−5 %05 %10 %199220102026

The change is larger than the previous month’s.

July 2026:2,51

What this number is

On average over the twelve months to August 2026, consumer prices excluding housing rose 2,56 % compared with the previous twelve months. The August value is the reference figure for updating rents in the following year.

How much has the average level of consumer prices excluding housing changed over the last twelve months?

Prices and building

House prices

17,6 average annual % changein 2025source · Eurostat

The change is larger than in 2024. The change is larger than the European Union’s. For the European Commission, a rise above 9 % in a year is a sign of a possible imbalance: Portugal is above it.

2024:9,1European Union:5,5outside the Commission’s reference value (above 9 %)

Finland −2,3Hungary 18,3 (provisional data)

Among the 27 EU countries in 2025, the lowest value is −2,3 (Finland) and the highest is 18,3 (Hungary); the EU average is 5,5. Portugal (17,6) ranks 2nd from the highest.

All the countries

What this number is

In 2025 the prices of homes bought by households rose 17,6 % on average.

How much have the transaction prices of homes purchased by households changed in a year?

Floor area licensed for housing

749,7 square metres per thousand residents (provisional data)in 2025source · Eurostat

Up from 2024. Above the European Union average.

2024:654,5 (provisional data)European Union:377,5

What this number is

It is the floor area of new housing permitted in a year, in square metres per 1000 inhabitants: the higher it is, the more housing construction was authorised.

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