After a slowdown in growth at the start of 2025, rents paid by tenants in Portugal continued to rise by 5.2% in June, the National Statistics Institute (INE) reveals.
The rents actually paid by tenants in Portugal began a cycle of decelerating increases at the start of 2025, after spending several months in the previous year growing by 7%. But June saw a halt to this slowdown.
“The year-on-year change in housing rents per square meter was 5.2% in June 2025 (identical to the previous month),” INE said in the bulletin published this Thursday, July 10. In other words, house rents rose in June at the same rate as in May, interrupting the downward trend seen in previous months.
The truth is that house rents paid by tenants continue to grow year-on-year in all regions of the country, albeit at different speeds. As in previous months, the Autonomous Region of Madeira recorded the strongest increase (+7.1%).
In June, the average value of housing rents per square meter registered a monthly variation of 0.3%, also identical to the previous month. “The region with the highest positive monthly variation was the Alentejo (0.6%), and there was no region with a negative variation in the average value of housing rents,” INE points out.
It should be remembered that these statistics take into account the rental contracts currently in force in the country and not just the new ones.
Source: https://www.idealista.pt/