https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/Recent content on Portugal Property With IncomeHugoen-GBMon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/what-property-with-income-means/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/what-property-with-income-means/“Property with income” is one of those phrases that sounds precise and isn’t. People search for it meaning at least four different things, and the differences decide whether the thing you buy actually funds the life you wanted. Worth untangling, because we sat on the buying side of this once ourselves. The four things people usually mean 1. Rental yield. A property you buy and let out. The income is the rent, the work is being a landlord, and the return is a percentage of a capital sum you have already committed.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/living-in-the-eu-people-before-commerce/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/living-in-the-eu-people-before-commerce/The first time the town shut for lunch we stood in the square feeling like people who had failed to read the instructions. We had driven in for one thing. It was half past twelve. Everything — the shops, the offices, the counter we needed — closed, and stayed closed, for two hours. Not a token half hour with somebody left on the till. Actually shut, because the people who worked there had gone home to eat.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/cost-of-living-smallholding-central-portugal/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/cost-of-living-smallholding-central-portugal/Every article about the cost of living in Portugal seems to be written by someone in Lisbon or the Algarve. Neither has much to do with life on a smallholding in the middle of the country, which is cheaper in some ways and more expensive in ways nobody warns you about. Here is the honest version, from actually doing it. The costs that go down Food. This is the big one, and it is not marginal.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/praias-fluviais-central-portugal/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/praias-fluviais-central-portugal/Ask most people what they picture when you say Portugal and they will describe the coast. Inland Portugal has something the coast does not, and almost nobody outside the country has heard of it. What a praia fluvial actually is A river beach. A low weir across a river slows the water into a pool deep enough to swim in properly — not paddle, swim. Around it, usually, a sandy or grassed bank, trees to the water’s edge, steps into the water, and often a café.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/running-an-online-business-from-rural-portugal/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/running-an-online-business-from-rural-portugal/The short answer is yes, and we have been doing it for years. The longer answer is that it depends almost entirely on decisions you make before you move, and most of the people who struggle made a different one about the property. Internet is the whole question Everything else is solvable. This isn’t. Rural Portugal is not uniformly connected. There are properties with fibre and properties where you will be fighting a marginal mobile signal from a hilltop, and they can be a few kilometres apart.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/buying-property-in-portugal-as-a-uk-citizen/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/journal/buying-property-in-portugal-as-a-uk-citizen/We are not lawyers or immigration advisers, and you should use both. But we have been through this, and there is a difference between what the process looks like on paper and what it feels like from the inside. Brexit changed the shape, not the possibility Before 2021 a British citizen could simply move to Portugal. Now you need a residency visa to stay long-term, and you apply for it before you go.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/for-sale-by-owner/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/for-sale-by-owner/There is no estate agent involved in this sale, and no business broker. When you enquire, you are writing to the people who own the house, planted the fruit trees and built the business. When you visit, we will be the ones showing you round. That is unusual for a sale of this size, and it is worth explaining what it means in practice — because “for sale by owner” is a phrase people know from house sales but rarely see attached to a business and a property together.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/living-in-portugal/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/living-in-portugal/Most people considering a move like this have read plenty about buying property in Portugal and almost nothing about living on a smallholding once the paperwork is done. This is that, as honestly as we can put it. The river beaches This is the thing we would have not believed before we moved here, and the thing we will miss most. Central Portugal has praias fluviais — river beaches, where a low weir slows the water into something deep and clear enough to swim in properly.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/enquire/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/enquire/Most people never actually do it Not because they can’t afford to. Because the pieces never line up. The right house is in the wrong place. The right place has no way to earn a living. The numbers work but the life doesn’t, or the life works but the numbers don’t. Here, for once, the pieces line up. And that is the whole of what makes this rare — not the hectares, not the fruit trees, not even the business on its own.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/privacy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/privacy/This is a website about the sale of one property and one business. It is deliberately simple, and so is this. What we collect Only what you type into the enquiry form: your name, email address, contact number, the country you live in, where you are in the buying process, and anything you choose to write in the message box. What we do with it We read it and we reply to it.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/faq/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/faq/These are the questions that come up most often. We have tried to answer them the way we would want them answered — plainly, including the parts that are less flattering. If what you want to know isn’t here, ask us directly. We would rather have an honest conversation early than a disappointed one later.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/serta-central-portugal/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/serta-central-portugal/Most people who end up here had never heard of Sertã before they started looking. It sits in the Pinhal Interior — the pine interior — in the district of Castelo Branco, in the middle of Portugal, well inland from the coast and a long way in spirit from the Algarve. This is a description of the area written by people who chose it, live about nine kilometres outside it, and use it every week.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/business/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/business/What it is An IT and B2B service business, registered and operating from the Isle of Man, trading for more than fifteen years. Clients pay by subscription. Many of them have been with us for over a decade. It is not a startup, not a side project, and not something that depends on one big customer. It is a slow, boring, dependable thing — which is exactly what you want when it is the thing paying your bills.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/property/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/property/The land 11,100 m² — just over a hectare, well demarcated, reached by a good forest track that runs about 300 metres off the road. No immediate neighbours. Open countryside in every direction. It is not a lawn with some trees on it. It is land that feeds a household: Fruit trees dotted all over the land — oranges, tangerines, cherries, apples, pears, peaches, plums, damsons, chestnuts, loquat, blackberries and grape vines A vegetable garden in raised beds Two areas of pine woodland, which is where the firewood comes from A great many olive trees A wildflower and grass meadow running through the middle of it Wild herbs through the meadow — lavender and thyme — and the honeybees that come with them The land feeds the house and it heats it.https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/why-were-selling/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://portugal-property-with-income-for-sale-by-owner.com/why-were-selling/It is the right question, and the one we would ask first too. When someone is selling a comfortable home and a business that reliably pays for it, the obvious suspicion is that something is wrong with one of them. Nothing is. We are changing hemispheres. The actual reason We have had our years here, and they were good ones. The house has been a family home, the land has fed us, and the business has quietly funded the whole thing without asking much back.