Sell the house
without switching it off.
For owners of exceptional homes throughout Portugal. We present your house to the standard of a hotel, put it to work while it sells, and bring the buyers who already stay with us.
A house should
keep living.
An exceptional home deserves more than a listing. It needs careful presentation, an understanding of its operating potential and a conversation with the right international buyers. While it is for sale, it can remain cared for, lived in and, where suitable, welcoming guests.
Presented properly.
Cared for daily.
It earns more while it sells.
If you want it, your house enters our operation: our photography, our staging, our maintenance, our guests. It stops costing and starts earning at our numbers, not the market's, and the sale carries a documented income that buyers pay for. You can stop at any time.
We bring buyers who already trust us.
Tens of thousands of international guests have slept in our houses. Every year some of them ask us whether a house is for sale. Your house is offered to them before it is offered to anyone else.
We sell the house with the people who can run it.
The buyer knows who cleans, who repairs, who answers the phone, and knows the house has been run properly whether they keep us or not. That certainty is the difference between a foreigner who hesitates for a year and one who signs. It is also what lets us ask for a higher price.
We show it properly.
Presenting houses is our daily work. Hotel photography, a house that is warm and lit for every visit, and a dossier a buyer can send to their lawyer and their bank.
We can sell it without ever listing it.
Private sales. If you do not want your house on a portal, on this site, or known to be for sale, we offer it only to guests and clients who already know us. With 2,000 reviews and four in ten guests returning, that is a market on its own. Several of our sales were never advertised.
The traditional agency,
and us.
One relationship, from the first photograph to the day after the deed.
| The service | A traditional agency | Portugal Active Real Estate |
|---|---|---|
| Photography | A visit and a wide lens | Hotel photography, staging, video |
| Who sees it | Portuguese portals | Our international guest base first, then the market |
| While it sells | Empty, costing, degrading | Operating, earning, maintained |
| The numbers | The neighbour's asking price | Three years of accounts and a valuation as an asset |
| The buyer's fear | Yours to solve | Answered: the operator stays if they want it |
| After the deed | Goodbye | The same team, the next morning |
| Discretion | A sign at the gate | Private sales to people who already know us |
From valuation
to the next owner.
We value the house as an asset.
Within two working days you receive a valuation based on what the house earns or could earn, not only on square metres and the neighbour's asking price.
We prepare it to our standard.
Photography, staging, small repairs, and, if you choose, guests. The house is shown working.
We present it.
First to guests and clients who already know us and have asked. Then to the market, with the full dossier: accounts, licence, title, survey, management contract.
We close, and we offer to stay.
The buyer can sign a new management contract at completion, or take the keys and move in. Either way the house was sold working, and that is what makes it worth more.
If your house is already with Portugal Active
Nothing changes until you decide. We never suggest that an owner should sell, and we do not contact you with offers. When you tell us you want to sell, we prepare the dossier from the accounts we already keep, and the house keeps receiving guests until completion. The buyer is offered the same management; whether they take it is their choice.
Not yet one of ours?
We start with a visit and a valuation as an asset. We are selective, for the same reason we are selective about what we operate: fewer than 5% of houses offered to Portugal Active are accepted, and we would rather say no than sell a house we would not run. If we take the house, we bring it to our standard, handle the tourism licence if it has none, and, if you choose, open it to guests during the sale under the same protection our owners get: curated guests, controlled occupancy, preventive care. If it does not sell, you still have a house in better condition, earning, and looked after. Many owners keep it that way, because a house with us delivers the three things a second home is supposed to deliver and rarely does: income without effort, an asset that holds its value, and a place you use whenever you want.
Exclusivity,
for twelve months.
Not because agencies always ask for it, but because what we do costs us money before you pay us anything: photography, preparation, staging, and our team's time inside the house. We only do that work for houses we represent alone.
One commission.
Five percent, on completion.
No marketing fees, no listing fees, nothing if the house does not sell. If your house operates with us during the sale, you keep the rental income under our standard management terms.
Clear from
the beginning.
We do not approach owners to sell. We only act when an owner decides.
We sell with the real accounts. If a number in the dossier is a projection, it says so.
When a house is sold, we offer the buyer the same management. Most take it. Nobody has to.
We show every house as if we were going to run it afterwards. Because we might.
Before
we begin.
How long does it take?
Houses in operation with a full dossier have sold with us in under four months. Houses that need preparation take longer, and the preparation is the part that shortens the rest.
What if my house is in a containment zone?
We review the property’s location, registration and available licence documents as part of preparing the sale. The position must be confirmed for the specific property with the relevant advisers.
What about my guests and my calendar?
They continue. Bookings already made are honoured, and the buyer receives the calendar as part of the house.
Can I keep using the house while it is for sale?
Yes. You block your weeks like any owner, and the house works for you the rest of the time.
Will you tell me what the house is really worth?
Yes, including when it is less than you hoped. A house priced on what it earns sells; a house priced on what the neighbour asked does not.
Let’s talk
about your house.
We reply within two working days with a valuation based on income and comparables, and a short view on whether the house should be activated before it sells. No obligation, and no follow up calls unless you ask for them.