A home-purchase planning desk with calculator.

Your starting point

A house purchase brings legal, financial and physical checks together. Give each its own time and appoint independent help where needed.

The purchase price is only one part of the money required to buy and own a home. Use the steps below to organise a decision, not to infer an official approval, a guaranteed price or a universal deadline.

Work through the decision

The Full Cost of Buying a Home — a diagram of the key planning steps
Planning diagram. The same steps are described in the text below.
01

Itemise the transaction

Separate price, confirmed taxes, registration, professional fees and financing charges.

02

Confirm tax treatment

Ask a qualified adviser or the Tax Authority to establish the rules for your profile and property.

03

Plan after completion

Reserve for services, insurance, maintenance and any works that are not included in the purchase.

Adapt this to your circumstances

Keep citizenship, current residence, household needs and the location of the home separate in your notes. Ask the responsible authority, institution or qualified professional to confirm any requirement that affects your situation. A checklist used by another household may not apply to yours.

Sources and checks

Justice portal — Casa Pronta — an official starting point for this topic. The relevant page, its scope and effective date must be checked before a consequential decision.

No market prices, eligibility thresholds or legal deadlines have been invented for this guide. Dates in personal planning tools are suggestions or values you supply.

Make it practical

Open the Home Purchase Cost Calculator to keep the information you collect with your own assumptions, notes and next actions.

Open Home Purchase Cost Calculator

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