A second home
should not be
a second job.
Most of our buyers have never bought in Portugal. Some had never been north of Porto. This page is what we tell every one of them before they see a house.
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A house.
And a choice.
A house we know.
Either one we have run for years, with its accounts, or one we have surveyed and priced as if we were about to. Never a house we have seen once.
A house that works.
Furnished, equipped, maintained, and, if it is in operation, earning, with a team already in it.
A house that has been protected.
Curated guests, controlled occupancy, preventive maintenance, gardens and pools kept all year. Our owners tell us their houses are in better condition than when they bought them. Yours will be handed over that way.
A choice.
Live in it all year, come whenever you want, or let it earn. If you keep us, you get the income without doing anything, a house kept to hold and grow its value, and your own weeks whenever you name them. If you do not, you get the keys.
What stands
behind a home.
Portugal Active brings property preparation, hospitality, operation and sales together. The team that understands the guest experience can also explain how the home works as an asset.
Four things shape the rental potential of a home.
The brand and its guests.
Nine years of a name that means a certain kind of stay, 2,000 reviews at 4.8, and four in ten guests who come back. A house with our name on it is booked by people who already trust it before they see it.
Global distribution.
Every major platform, priced daily, plus our own site in nine languages and a press record that includes Forbes, The Times and The Guardian. Ninety nine percent of our guests come from abroad, and they pay what the house is worth rather than what the local market expects.
Concierge and our own services.
Private chef, in villa spa, transfers, experiences and events, delivered by Portugal Active's own people and partners rather than bought in. Guests spend more, stay longer, rate higher and return. That is what lifts a house from a rental to the top of its market.
The operation.
Curated guests over volume, preventive maintenance, gardens and pools all year, and reporting every month. A house that is looked after this way earns more for longer and is worth more on the day you sell it.
Review the available property information and discuss supporting documents with our team.
The operation.
Your decision.
Understand the numbers behind the home.
Explore the asking price, annual rental revenue and gross yield. Adjust your personal-use weeks to see how the estimate changes.
We stay, if you want us to.
The operation comes with the house; the obligation does not. Buy it to live in all year, to visit, or to let it keep earning. If you keep us, the day after completion the same team is cleaning, maintaining and welcoming guests. The calendar transfers to you. So do the reviews, which are what fill the calendar. Our fee and scope are fixed for twenty four months from purchase, so the numbers you buy on are the numbers you get.
It is yours whenever you want it.
Block the weeks you want. Arrive to a house that is ready, and to everything our guests have: a private chef cooking from the morning's market, in villa spa and yoga, transfers from the airport, a concierge on WhatsApp who lives here and answers around the clock. The rest of the year it works for you.
Protected, not just rented.
For most owners the worry is not the income, it is the house. We run every property with the rigour of a private wealth manager: controlled occupancy, guests curated by price and channel rather than filled by volume, preventive maintenance with regular inspections, gardens and pools kept all year, and a monthly report on the condition of the house, not only on the money. We never sacrifice the integrity of a house for one more booking. Our income depends on the house staying exceptional. So does yours.
More than nights.
Our houses also earn from what nightly rentals cannot: corporate retreats, intimate weddings, brand shoots and product launches. Discuss which of these possibilities suits the property with our team.
A clear path
to your home.
You ask for a dossier.
We send it within a working day. Accounts, calendar, licence, title, survey, the management contract. Send it to your lawyer and your bank; that is what it is for.
You stay, or you visit.
Houses in operation can be booked for a stay and the stay is credited if you buy. Other houses we show in person. Either way, the person showing you the house is the person who would run it.
You make an offer.
We take it to the owner the same day and we tell you plainly what they said.
Your lawyer does the rest.
A promissory contract with a deposit, then the deed at a notary, usually four to eight weeks later. We are in the room for both, and we hand over the keys and the operation on the day.
Day one.
If you kept us, nothing changes in the house. If you did not, we leave it clean, documented and running, and we are a phone call away.
The practical
details.
You need a Portuguese tax number. It takes a day, and your lawyer will get it for you.
Buying a house does not give you a residence visa. That route closed in 2023. If someone tells you otherwise, ask them to put it in writing.
There are purchase taxes and fees, mainly property transfer tax, stamp duty and notary costs. Your lawyer will give you the exact figures for the house you choose; we will not, because we are not your lawyer.
Tax regimes for new residents change. Ask a tax adviser before you decide where to live, not after.
The property dossier should include the relevant registration and licence documents. Your independent adviser should confirm the position for the specific property before purchase.
The people we introduce you to
Lawyers our buyers have used, a tax adviser, a bank that lends to foreigners, a surveyor if you want your own. We introduce; we do not take a fee from any of them.
After you buy
If you kept the operation, your dashboard shows every booking, every cost, every review and every maintenance visit from day one, and you block your own weeks in it. If you moved in, the same team looks after the house as a private residence, and the concierge number the guests used still answers.
Tell us what
feels like home.
A place, a size, a use, a budget. One message from us when it appears.