How to look for properties in Portugal?
Portugal’s real estate is very popular with foreign buyers. Indeed, foreigners represent close to 6 billion euros worth of Portuguese properties. While the French alone represent 1.1 billion euros, British, Brazilians, Chinese or Swiss buyers are also very keen on Portuguese real estate. But what are the best websites to browse for real estate properties?
Top property portals in Portugal
Portugal counts over 10 million inhabitants, and clear leaders to search for properties:
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Traffic Overview
OLX
OLX.pt has 18 million visits per month, however this is not only real estate. Indeed, OLX is a general classifieds. One remark about pronunciation of OLX in Portuguese: listen to the video below to learn how to say it properly. Otherwise Portuguese people won’t understand you.
Idealista
Idealista.pt has 8 million visits per month. By far, this is the fastest growing real estate website in Portugal. In terms of property search, Idealista probably beats OLX.pt.
Imovirtual
Imovirtual.com receives 4 million visits per month. It is a strong actor, and belongs to OLX Group.
CasaSapo
CasaSapo’s traffic is around 1.2 million visits per month. Currently, it is probably the #4 in Portugal, less visited than OLX, Idealista and Imovirtual. However in the past, CasaSapo was #1. It lost a lot of market shares in the past 5 years.
Did you know that Casa Sapo means “House” “Frog” ? Check out their logo on CasaSapo.pt, you’ll see it is a frog!
Green Acres
Green-Acres.pt with 750K visits per month.
BPI Expresso
BPI Expresso receives 700K visits per month. Therefore, we can consider that BPI is the #6 biggest property portal in Portugal.
Vox Populi
However if you ask Portuguese people about their favorite real estate websites, many will mention real estate brands REMAX.pt and ERA.pt (1.7M and 1M visits). In other terms, REMAX and ERA should be considered the #4 and #5 top sites for real estate in Portugal.