Cascais neighborhood guide
Quinta da Marinha property guide for foreign buyers (2026)
Premium gated residential development west of Cascais Centro — golf, equestrian centre, Onyria Marinha resort, tightly controlled architecture, and the highest-priced detached-villa stock in the borough.
Median price / m²
€6,840
Rental / m² / month
€21.5
Gross yield
3.7%
Foreign-buyer share
78%
Who buys in Quinta da Marinha
Ultra-high-net-worth foreign buyers, often British, French, Brazilian, Israeli, and German. Average ticket €1.8M-€6M+ for villas.
Transport and access
No train. Car-dependent — 8 minutes to Cascais Centro, 40 min to Lisbon airport. Internal shuttle to the resort facilities.
Lifestyle, services, and amenities
Onyria Marinha golf course (designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr.), equestrian centre, hotel and spa, the Cascais Pony Club. Quiet, controlled, low car traffic.
Property types in Quinta da Marinha
Detached villas 350-1,200 m² on plots 1,500-5,000 m². Limited apartments in the Marinha apartment annex.
Cost-to-buy: IMT + Stamp Duty + notary
Use the calculator below to model the exact IMT, Stamp Duty (0.8%), and notary estimate for your specific purchase price in Quinta da Marinha. The calculator uses the 2026 mainland Portugal brackets and handles primary residence vs other and resident vs non-resident scales.
Portugal IMT calculator (2026 brackets)
Property transfer tax + Stamp Duty + notary estimate on a Portuguese urban residential purchase. AT 2026 mainland brackets.
Estimated total transaction tax
€36,903
6.74% on top of the purchase price
- IMT (property transfer tax)
- €31,325
- Effective IMT rate
- 5.72%
- Marginal IMT bracket
- €324,058 – €648,022 @ 8.0%
- Stamp Duty (0.8%)
- €4,378
- Notary + registry (estimate)
- €1,200
Estimates based on Autoridade Tributária (AT) 2026 mainland brackets. Real IMT charged at escritura may differ if the assessed tax value (VPT) exceeds the purchase price, in which case AT charges on the higher number. Confirm with your Portuguese lawyer before closing.
Next steps
For the full buying process from offer to keys, see our complete buyer guide for foreigners. For mortgage rates and LTV for non-residents, see our mortgage guide. For the Portuguese tax-residency framework see our NHR / IFICI guide.
Other Cascais neighborhoods
Alcabideche
€3,680/m²
Inland Cascais municipality north of the railway corridor — value-tier residential, Quinta da Bicuda gated community, and a meaningfully lower price point than the coastal strip.
Cascais Centro
€5,980/m²
The historic core of Cascais between the marina and the railway station — pedestrianised streets, the Citadel, beachfront cafés, the daily fish market, and the densest concentration of restaurants in the borough.
Estoril
€5,780/m²
The casino-and-grand-hotel coastal stretch immediately east of Cascais — early-20th-century mansion belt, the Casino Estoril, the F1 / racetrack heritage, and the densest concentration of grand-villa stock on the Estoril coast.
Carcavelos
€4,380/m²
The eastern Cascais-line town between Oeiras and Estoril — kilometre-long Atlantic surf beach, the famous Carcavelos public beach, mid-tier housing, and St. Julian's International School (the largest English-language K-12 in Portugal).
Parede
€3,980/m²
The quiet small-coastal-town stretch between Carcavelos and São Pedro do Estoril — under-the-radar pricing, Atlantic beach access, mid-budget foreign-family-buyer entry point on the Cascais line.