About Leiloeiro

What Leiloeiro is

Leiloeiro brings together, in one place, the auctions and the judicial and tax sales of real estate in Portugal. It explains each notice in plain language, shows what the documents mention about risks and alerts anyone following a property when something changes.

"Leiloeiro" is Portuguese for auctioneer, but Leiloeiro is not an auction house: it does not sell property, run auctions or represent sellers or buyers. It gathers and explains what auction houses, banks and public bodies publish, and always sends you to the official listing.

Leiloeiro is an information service. It does not sell properties, does not act as a real-estate agent and does not give legal advice. The sales take place on the official platforms, which we link to on each property page.

Why it exists

Anyone looking for a property at auction finds the information scattered.

• Several sources, several formats. The Tax Authority, enforcement agents, Segurança Social (social security), insolvency administrators, banks and auction houses publish on different websites, each organised in its own way.
• Difficult documents. Notices of sale are, as a rule, PDF files in legal language. What matters most, such as occupancy, liens and encumbrances or the share being sold, is not always easy to find.
• Short deadlines. Sales have fixed dates, and the deposit has to be ready. It is easy to miss a deadline.
• Only in Portuguese. Those who do not read Portuguese, or who live outside the country, have even more difficulty.

Leiloeiro exists so that anyone can find, understand and follow these sales, and not only those who already know the field.

Behind every property there are people

Many of these properties are for sale because someone was unable to pay a debt. There is, often, a family that is going to lose its home.

We take that seriously in the way we build the service:

• We show properties, not people. Names and tax numbers never appear, and cannot be searched.
• We do not use the language of opportunity or of urgency. There are no "bargains" and no countdowns hurrying anyone.
• One year after the result, history pages stop showing the address.
• Anyone affected can ask for information to be corrected or removed, free of charge, and receives a reply within 30 days.

Our principles

Value before sign-up. Search, the map and the property pages are freely accessible, without an account. The account is for saving searches, following properties and receiving alerts.

Plain language. Every legal term has an explanation next to the text and an entry in the glossary.

Visible honesty. Each property page shows the source, the date of the last check and the link to the official notice. What is an estimate is marked as an estimate. What is produced by artificial intelligence is identified, with the page of the document on which it is based. We say what we do not know and we publish our methodology, with its limits.

No tricks. The price you see is the final price. The trial period does not ask for a card and does not turn into a charge. Cancellation takes two clicks. We give notice before charging an annual renewal. We do not sell data and we do not show advertising.

Independence. We do not receive commissions on sales or payments to give prominence to properties. Our revenue comes from subscriptions and reports.

Talk to us

Suggestions, corrections and criticism are welcome: the contact page.

If you represent an entity that publishes notices of sales and want to talk about how the information is collected or presented, or about a data partnership, use the same contact.

This page exists in Portuguese and in English. If the two versions differ, the Portuguese version prevails.