What does moradia mean in Portugal?
A moradia is a dwelling that takes up a whole building, in other words a house rather than a flat. It can be detached (isolada), semi-detached (geminada) or terraced (em banda). A dwelling inside a shared building is an apartamento.
- Defined in
- Decreto Regulamentar n.º 5/2019, Annex I, ficha I-31 (fogo)
- Law
- Decreto Regulamentar n.º 5/2019, technical concepts for spatial planning and urbanism
- Official text
- data.dre.pt/eli/decregul/5/2019/09/27/p/dre/pt/pdf
- Sources
- data.dre.pt/eli/decregul/5/2019/09/27/p/dre/pt/pdf
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
What it means for the owner
- Geminada: two buildings joined through the side wall (empena). Em banda: three or more contiguous buildings.
- A fogo is a part or the whole of a building with independent access, with rooms for living and private complementary spaces.
- The Ficha Técnica da Habitação uses the wider concept of habitação, which also counts balconies, terraces and attached storage.
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