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Tenants: Young professionals, startup workers, international students

Avg tenancy: 18 months · 62% renew

• · Stratospheric demand — Alameda metro hub drives daily churn
• · Rents have run hard; stress-test affordability at 30% of income
• · AL licensing suspended in contention zone — long-let only

Tenants: Young professionals, creatives, international students

Avg tenancy: 16 months · 58% renew

• · Porto's most in-demand rental parish
• · AL saturation has pushed stock back into long-let — favouring tenants on selection
• · University of Porto proximity stabilises academic-year demand

Tenants: Families, established professionals

Avg tenancy: 22 months · 78% renew

• · Family-led demand — longer tenancies, lower churn than Arroios
• · School catchment is the pricing lever
• · NRAU reform gives landlord a cleaner eviction path on defaults

Tenants: Students (Universidade do Porto)

Avg tenancy: 12 months · 40% renew

• · Academic-year cycle — let by June or face 12-month void
• · Per-room HMO model (arrendamento por quartos) outperforms whole-unit
• · Summer dead zone for re-lets

Tenants: Corporate tenants, Hospital da Luz staff, airline crew

Avg tenancy: 24 months · 74% renew

• · Relocation-package tenants dominate — slower turnover
• · Oriente transport hub = airport/CP-proof location
• · Condomínio costs meaningfully higher than older stock

Tenants: Students (Universidade do Minho), Bosch/Accenture staff

Avg tenancy: 16 months · 62% renew

• · Strongest YoY rent growth of Portugal top-10 cities
• · Tech park growth + affordability = deep tenant pool
• · Strict academic-year cycle for student segment

Tenants: Young professionals, Campanhã-commuting workers

Avg tenancy: 18 months · 65% renew

• · Growth outpacing Cedofeita — earlier-stage gentrification
• · Campanhã station regen is the big catalyst
• · Demand for T2s strong; T3s slower

Tenants: Expats, international school families, retirees

Avg tenancy: 24 months · 76% renew

• · International school cluster anchors demand
• · Longer tenancies (typical 2-year minimum ask)
• · AL pressure on prime streets limiting long-let supply

Tenants: Tech corridor professionals (Tagus Park)

Avg tenancy: 22 months · 74% renew

• · Tagus Park corporate cluster — stable demand
• · Fast train to Lisboa = reliable commuter premium
• · Nova SBE waterfront lifts northern Oeiras specifically

Tenants: Students (Universidade de Coimbra), academic staff, hospital

Avg tenancy: 14 months · 55% renew

• · Europe's oldest continuous university = perpetual student base
• · Summer dead zone for re-lets
• · Hospitals (CHUC) anchor non-seasonal demand

Tenants: Porto overflow — families and professionals

Avg tenancy: 20 months · 72% renew

• · Metro Yellow Line extension lifted demand
• · Best long-let yields in Porto metro
• · River-view premium on Gaia side of Douro

Tenants: Creative workers, tech workers, younger professionals

Avg tenancy: 18 months · 60% renew

• · Fastest-growing rent in Lisboa concelho
• · Tenant quality improving as Hub Criativo do Beato matures
• · Still some social-housing-adjacent streets — know the block

Tenants: University staff, tech workers, young families

Avg tenancy: 20 months · 70% renew

• · Universidade de Aveiro anchors professional tenant base
• · Porto-Lisboa rail corridor premium
• · Coastal lifestyle without Algarve seasonality

Tenants: Hospital workers, university staff, professionals

Avg tenancy: 18 months · 68% renew

• · Year-round economy — not purely seasonal
• · Universidade do Algarve anchors steady student demand
• · Healthcare/aviation sector stable

Tenants: Autoeuropa workers, Lisboa overflow, families

Avg tenancy: 20 months · 74% renew

• · Autoeuropa automotive employer anchors stable demand
• · Lisboa overflow story still running
• · Sado-coast lifestyle premium emerging

Tenants: Digital nomads, remote workers, expat retirees

Avg tenancy: 18 months · 66% renew

• · Madeira Digital Nomad Village pulls steady demand
• · IFICI appeal for researchers at Funchal university
• · Inter-island logistics cost — factor supply chain

Tenants: Expats, remote workers, seasonal workers

Avg tenancy: 14 months · 55% renew

• · AL still open — hybrid long/short model common
• · Winter occupancy 60-70% of summer — haircut the pro forma
• · Healthcare worker shortage drives one stable tenant sector

Tenants: Hospitality workers, expats, retirees

Avg tenancy: 12 months · 52% renew

• · Heavy seasonality — winter voids can stretch to 6+ weeks
• · AL freeze in Salgados/Santa Eulália tightening
• · Long-let tenant base narrower than Lagos/Faro