Applications to build 61,000 new flats and houses filed in the first nine months of 2026. Keys in four years at the earliest
Between January and September 2026, developers filed applications with municipalities to build 61,334 flats and houses in 17,943 projects. That is an average of 6,815 homes a month, 12% more than in 2025 (6,098). The figures were compiled by the analytics firm Confidencial Imobiliário from the provisional energy certificates issued by ADENE, the energy agency (Dinheiro Vivo).
Most of the planned building is in the north, with 17,444 homes (28% of all applications), followed by the centre of the country with 14,424 (24%). Lisbon and Porto and their surrounding areas together account for about 25,000, or 41%: 12,924 in the Porto metropolitan area and 12,127 in the Lisbon metropolitan area.
Among municipalities, Porto comes first with 4,174 homes, followed by Vila Nova de Gaia with 3,325, Gondomar with 1,487, and Maia and Matosinhos with about a thousand each. Lisbon itself has 1,790, Loures 1,550 and Sintra 1,094; Cascais, Oeiras, Almada, Seixal and Setúbal have about 500 each. Elsewhere in the north, Vila Nova de Famalicão stands out with 1,547, Braga with 1,492 and Guimarães with 1,291; in the centre, Coimbra with 1,199, Viseu and Leiria with about a thousand each, and Aveiro with 788.
The applications include 48 buildings with more than 100 flats each, six of them with more than 200: in Vila Nova de Gaia, Trofa, Porto (two), Loures and Montijo.
An application does not yet mean a building site: each one has to be approved by the municipality, and it takes at least four years to get from application to keys. For current prices and rents across the country, see our housing prices page.
