You are not choosing a holiday. You are choosing a market.
Most people pick a country with their heart, then meet the taxes, the yields and the mortgage rules far too late. This tool puts France, Italy, Spain and Portugal side by side on the figures that decide whether a place is a good buy: price per m², purchase taxes, rental yield, price growth, and how readily the banks lend to a foreign buyer.
France costs more per m² but less to buy into, and lends more freely. Spain is cheaper per m² with a stronger yield, but the taxes bite harder. Neither is simply better. They are different bets.
The numbers that decide a market, all in one view.
Not a feature tour. Here is what you take from it, whether you are still torn between countries or already set on one.
Price, taxes, yield, growth and lender appetite for every country at once, so you compare like for like instead of one glossy listing against another.
Switch location type and the numbers shift. A coastal yield and a rural yield are different animals, and the tool shows both.
- A radar chart that shows each market's shape at a glance, strengths and weaknesses together
- Purchase taxes and fees by country, the 7 to 20% the listing price never mentions
- A lender-appetite score for how readily banks finance a foreign buyer in each market
- A downloadable comparison report to keep next to your shortlist
The cheapest country to buy in is rarely the cheapest to own in.
The Property Drop · Buyer Intelligence
Still torn between countries
France for the life, Spain for the yield, Portugal for the growth, Italy for the price. This puts the trade-offs on one screen, so the choice is made on the numbers rather than the daydream.
Already set on a country
Comparing it against the other three still pays. If your pick carries the highest taxes and the lowest yield, far better to know now than at the notary.
Refreshed every quarter, not left to drift.
This is a maintained dataset, not a number frozen years ago. The figures are reviewed and refreshed each quarter from official national statistics offices, Eurostat and leading property research, so you compare markets on recent data. The data period is shown on the tool itself, and every change is logged in one place.
One subscription. The whole buyer toolkit.
The Market Comparison Tool comes with Full Access, alongside the rest of the kit: curated property listings, the Buyer Playbooks, all nine buying tools, the four Vetting editions, and ongoing regulation updates.
The Property Drop does not act as an estate agent, intermediary, or advisor in any transaction and does not facilitate introductions, negotiations, or transactions. Figures are national and regional averages for the stated data period and vary significantly by location. Prime areas can run well above the averages shown.
Compare the markets. Then fall in love.
Put France, Italy, Spain and Portugal side by side on price, tax, yield,
growth and lending before you commit to a country.