Apartments with pool cost more 68% (and it is harder to find them)

Cbuying an apartment with swimming pool in Portugal costs, on average, more 68% than buying a property without this convenience, according to an analysis published by the idealist, this Thursday.

In addition, it is also difficult to find them, since only 9% of the apartments announced on the real estate platform in Portugal have an extra pool.

“The pool is consolidated as one of the most valued amenities in the Portuguese real estate market, with increasing impact on the purchase decision, especially in urban centers and regions with the highest tourist demand”, can be read in a statement sent to the News to Minutes. 

The cities that stand out

Lisbon, refer to it, is the city where the price difference between buying an apartment with or without a swimming pool is higher, with apartments with a pool 122% more expensive.

“ The following are price differences in Setúbal (98% more expensive), Porto (54% more expensive), Castelo Branco (47% more expensive), Aveiro (46% more expensive), Santarém (43% more expensive), Leiria (37% more expensive), Faro (30% more expensive) and Braga (21% more expensive) ", read in the same press release. 

In addition, with less than 20% price difference, there are Coimbra (12% more expensive) and Viseu (2% more expensive). 

Where are there more houses for sale with pool? 

According to the idealist, it is in Faro where there are more houses for sale with pool (36%).

“ The following are Leiria (10%), Lisbon (7%), Braga (5%), Porto (4%) and Setúbal (4%). The cities of Aveiro (3%), Santarém (3%), Castelo Branco (2%), Coimbra (2%) and Viseu (1%) are offered by less than 4% of houses with swimming pool for sale. It should be noted that, despite Faro leading in the offer, the pool makes the apartment 4x more expensive in Lisbon than in the Algarve (122% vs. 30%) ", can be read. 

According to the real estate platform, for the development of this study, the idealist analyzed the absolute price of the apartments for sale in Portugal, excluding the houses. For the study, only the district capitals where the sample was representative were analyzed. 

It's in these three districts that houses sell faster: You live in one of them?

One in 10 houses for sale in Portugal leaves the market in less than seven days, but there are three districts that stand out: business is even faster in Aveiro, Coimbra and Porto. The data is also from the idealistic real estate platform. 

“About 10% of the houses announced for sale in Portugal in the second quarter of the year left the market in less than seven days. ... In addition to these ‘light sales’, 18% of the houses disappeared between a week and a month, 31% between one and three months, 35% between three months and one year, and 6% remained on the market for more than a year’ News to Minutes he had access. 

Among the district capitals and autonomous regions analyzed, Aveiro, Coimbra and Porto stand out as the cities where the fastest sales are recorded, according to the data released. About 11% of the properties are sold in less than seven days.