From the air · 37.0998° N
A four-bedroom house on two hectares of olive, fig and carob, ten minutes inland of Faro. Built end-to-end as a family home in 2022 — and engineered for energy class A on a site you cannot overlook.
The 37°8 score is the same six checks we run on every house we list. Title, build, space, what you can still do with it, how it treats energy, and whether the asking price actually adds up. Each one out of ten. We publish the full read every time.
The two sevens here are deliberate. Eco loses points because the house leans on the grid for electricity — solar thermal is in place, photovoltaic isn't. Value sits on seven because €7,400/m² of built area is at the top of what Estoi has done; the offset is the 2.02 ha of land it stands on.
This is a house built for five children. Four bedrooms downstairs, a separate studio above the garage, a 60 m² living-dining room that handles all of them at once, a kitchen that opens onto an outdoor cooking set up with its own induction hob and fridge, and a 13-metre pool deep enough to dive into and shallow enough to stand a four-year-old in. Two hectares of olive and fig sit around it. The nearest neighbour is far enough away that you don't see them.
It also works the other way round. With the children gone, three of the four bedrooms close up and the studio above the garage runs as a guest flat or a writing room. The land lives quietly. The energy bill stays small. The pool cover does the work of a kid-gate.
Built in 2022 by the architect for himself, then sold to its current owners eighteen months later. There are no shortcuts in the construction — ETICS exterior cladding, thermally-broken aluminium openings, double glazing, underfloor radiant heating across the whole footprint, solar thermal hot water, and a Verisure alarm with motion-sensor cameras at every opening. The pool runs on automated salt-water treatment with a polycarbonate slatted cover that heats the water and locks itself shut.
The plot is fully registered, fully licensed, free of mortgage or encumbrance, and held by a single SPV — clean handover. Energy certificate SCE0000265143930 is valid through December 2031.
Eng. Topógrafo OET 1122220/20228005/20240920A · SCE0000265143930 · valid 07/12/2031| Living / Dining | 60.78 |
| Kitchen | 16.21 |
| Master suite | 12.77 |
| Master dressing | 8.97 |
| Master bathroom | 5.85 |
| Suite | 14.70 |
| Suite bathroom | 4.13 |
| Single bedroom | 12.36 |
| Single dressing | 5.10 |
| Double bedroom | 13.43 |
| Shared bathroom | 4.20 |
| Entrance + circulation | 10.53 |
| Guest WC | 1.89 |
| Storage | 2.52 |
| Garage | 37.76 |
| Technical | 3.36 |
| Studio | 18.85 |
| Studio bathroom | 3.80 |
| External terrace | 10.00 |
| Swimming pool | 42.00 |
| Pool support WC | 3.20 |
| Pool equipment room | 4.20 |
| Covered entrance patio | 10.00 |
| Outdoor kitchen / BBQ | 22.00 |
| Dimensions | 3.30 × 13.0 |
| Beach shelf | 2.0 m × 30 cm |
| Main depth | 1.50 |
| Cover | Polycarbonate slats · electric · built-in roller |
| Treatment | Automated salt-water |
| Heating | Cover-led solar gain (no separate heater) |
| Child-safe | Cover acts as locked barrier |
| Main gate | Galvanised steel |
| Inner gate | Cryptomeria wood |
| Drive paving | Monchique granite cobble |
| Car shade | Nordic pine + steel cable |
Every appliance and fitting that comes with the sale, by name. So you can value it properly and know what to insure on day one.
The plot fronts the CM 1309 — the small municipal road that runs east of Estoi village towards the agricultural land between here and the A22. From the road edge the land rises six and a half metres to its highest corner, which is where the house sits. The fall is gentle enough that you do not notice it when you walk it.
The trees are what the Algarve had before it had villas. Olive throughout — some of them old, some planted by the previous owner. Almond and fig in the lower terraces. Two carob and one mature holm oak. Cypresses bordering the inner garden line.
Dry-stone boundary walls (muros de pedra solta) on three sides, masonry on the road frontage. Boundary markers are surveyed and correspond to Sol. 68.11 CM 1309. The water borehole is recorded on the topographic survey at the south-west corner; the water tank is mid-plot.
The piece of land you cannot get back, once you start building, is the bit between the house and the boundary. Here that distance is at minimum eighty-five metres in every direction. There is no neighbouring building you can see from any window.
Cheap on this metric. Most listed villa land between Estoi and Quinta do Lago is €180–€450/m². You're paying for the house, not the hectare.
Top of the Estoi band. Comparable new-build villas in this finish range are €5,800–€8,200/m². It sits in the upper third of the curve.
Counting four ground-floor bedrooms. If you count the studio above the garage as a fifth, it drops to €308k a bed.
We work the price out in public because it ought to be. There's no negotiation game built into the asking. The owners have set it at what they would accept; the next move is yours.
The two sevens above — Eco and Value — are addressable. Here's how, by category, with our cost read. We've quoted from three Algarve installers we work with.
Around 90 m² of unobstructed south-facing roof. A 9–12 kW PV array with hybrid inverter and ~15 kWh battery would cover daytime load and most evenings. Pairs with the existing solar thermal so total roof use stays under 50 m².
The site already separates grey water and uses borehole for irrigation, which is good. Adding a buried 10,000 L rainwater tank fed off the main roof would cover summer irrigation and reduce borehole draw — useful if the licensing on borehole use tightens, which it has been doing across Faro municipality.
The studio above the garage and the pool/BBQ area were built but not included in the 2022 licensing. A regularization application through Câmara de Faro brings them onto the title officially — quicker resale, cleaner valuation, removes the asterisk.
All three together moves the composite from 8.3 to roughly 9.0, costs €28–39k, and is recoverable on resale within twelve to eighteen months on current Estoi €/m² movement. We can introduce the people who do each.
I've lived in Estoi for nine years and worked on it for seven. I have three children, the youngest at the village school, so when I say a house works for a family that size I have measured it against my own week.
I walked Vale da Rosa twice with the architect who built it before it was on the market and once with the engineer who signed off the energy class. If you want to see it, I'll meet you there myself; if you want to talk it through first, I'm happy to.
If you'd like the full information pack — surveys, certificates, EPC, planning correspondence — we'll send it before you fly. Tell us when you're on the Algarve.