guiding you hand in hand
from home to home
Motherland is a Property Search & Relocation Agency aimed at helping people transition to a slower way of life, in Portugal.
Build your nest in Portugal
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Relocation Service
It’s about more than visas and moving companies. It’s the beginning of your new way of life. From choosing the right location, to integrating into your community, we will be your guides.
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Lifestyle Design
Local artisans, farmer’s markets and retreats. Epic surfing, pristine beaches. Lively coworkings, slow food experiences. Discover the little things that fill your days with texture and meaning.
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Curated Properties
We collaborate with top architects and designers, and handpick sustainable homes so exquisite and unique, you won’t find them on other real estate websites. Contact us to learn more.
Embrace slow living
We bring you visually evocative stories of timeless villages and their people, designer cities where tradition meets tech, and coastal communities offering the balance so many of us now seek. Drawing from three decades of real estate investment experience in Portugal, we provide targeted property search, relocation services, and investment advisory for a range of lifestyles. Ensuring your smooth migration and landing, we’ll walk with you every step of the way.
Choose your own adventure
Why move
to portugal?
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This residency by investment scheme offers non-EU citizens an opportunity to become a permanent resident or a citizen of Portugal in just five years — and enjoy visa-free access to 188 countries. You can qualify for residency by investing €250,000, one of the lowest investment thresholds in Europe. Learn more
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The cost of living in Portugal is half that of California, and many cities around the world. Leave escalating housing prices behind. Double your retirement runway. Raise your children in a new kind of luxury, with top rated international schools you can afford, immersed in culture and nature, and the kind of values you want to instill in your little ones. Learn more
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Remote work means you can trade exhausting competition, long commutes and financial stress for closer connection and the gift of time. Digital Nomad Visas are now available, making it even easier. Live among people who appreciate balance, freedom, nature and family. Where every day is filled with dreamy landscapes and coastline, endless sunshine, friendly neighbors, and sumptuous cuisine. Learn more
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Portugal ranks 7th in the world for speaking English as a second language. Three international airports make travel easy. Portugal is open to foreigners, and boasts a vibrant multicultural society and expat community. Its growing economy, abundance of universities and excellent private healthcare — not to mention diversity of culture and climate — will put a whole new spin on “the comforts of home”. Learn more
Portugal is today’s lifestyle destination for expats and investors. Voted Happiest Place on Earth, it sits firmly among the 5 best countries in the world to live in. Even before the pandemic, US emigration to Portugal leapt 33%. Let us show you why.
WHERE WILL YOU LIVE?
Motherland specializes in real estate investment, off-market properties, and relocation services throughout Portugal, tailored to your needs and lifestyle. Whether you’re considering cosmopolitan Lisbon or Porto, laid-back vineyard living in the Douro River Valley, or joining the Silver Coast’s vibrant surfing community, we’ll help you narrow your search and find your next home or investment opportunity. Contact us to arrange your private tour.
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Lisbon
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![Nazare Portugal big wave surfing]()
Nazaré
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![Portuguese Coast village blue and yellow tiles]()
Coastal Villages
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![Cork Oak tree Alentejo Portugal]()
Alentejo
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Porto
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![Algarve red sandy beach]()
Algarve
our story
We know what it is to leave your old home behind. We’ve been there. We understand the challenges of adapting to new laws, language, and culture. Anyone can pack up a house and ship it. But it takes courage to say goodbye to everything you knew, and redesign your life from scratch. That’s where we come in.
We’re here to guide you safely, hand in hand, from home to home.
Join us in this new land of opportunity, and the opportunity to slow down. Come live in a world that embraces a simpler and more sustainable way of being. Come build your new life in connection to the Earth and your senses. Rediscover beauty and breath in every moment. Join us in the Motherland.
the portuguese way of life is our way of life
We’re down-to-earth professionals, who take the time to get to know you and listen. We build relationships, not transactions. We open doors for you, with open arms. We’ll take you to our favorite coffee shops, and on a tour of our favorite villages. Some might call us old school. We call it the Portuguese way.