Why assentar exists

The idea

People moving home compare house prices. But a year's bill holds much more: the property tax the municipality sets, the income tax it gives back or not, water, electricity, gas, the transport pass or the car. Each figure sits on a different official website, in its own format and with its own date.

assentar brings them together for all 308 municipalities, works out the bill for your household and adds what money does not measure: the nearest emergency department, crèches, crime, burnt land.

How we work

1. Official sources onlyINE, Finanças, ERSAR, ERSE, DGEG, Banco de Portugal, ICNF and others, with the date of every figure.
2. Missing data is never zeroWhat is missing shows as “no data” and stays out of the sums.
3. No cookies and no sign-upWe do not know who you are and do not keep what you look for.

How we do the sums →

Behind assentar

Found a mistake, a missing figure or have a suggestion? Write to info@assentar.pt.

The azulejo and the colours

The logo and assentar's colour palette were created by the Portuguese designer Marta Rocha.

You can see more of her work on LinkedIn.

A Portuguese typeface

The headings and the name “assentar” beside the azulejo of the logo are set in Gloock, a high-contrast serif drawn for large sizes. It gives the municipalities' names the weight of a poster and goes with the azulejo, where assentar's blue and diamond come from.

It was designed by the Portuguese type designer Duarte Pinto and is open source: github.com/duartp/gloock.

When we update

Every figure says when it is from. We update at the pace the sources publish:

Every week

Fuel prices on the mainland

Every month

Housing-loan rate, fuel on the islands, bottled-gas price

Every quarter

Home prices and rents, when INE publishes them

When tariffs change

Electricity and natural gas (ERSE)

Once a year

Taxes, water, salaries, crime, health, crèches and burnt land