1-3 weeks*
Have everything settled even before coming to Portugal
* Please note, local service companies may cause delays, reschedule appointments without notice, or provide wide timeframes (e.g., between 09:00 and 18:00).
Avoid the stress of setting up your home’s utilities in Portugal. Our team coordinates and manages all essential services, from water and electricity to telecommunications, ensuring a hassle-free transition to your new home. Let us handle the hassle of setting up your essential home services. Our team ensures a smooth transition by managing all utilities, including water, electricity, gas, and telecommunications. Whether it’s connecting to internet providers or setting up TV services, we coordinate everything with local providers. From activation to troubleshooting, we ensure you’re fully set up and ready to enjoy your new home in Portugal, stress-free before your arrival.
If you have any questions please reach out to us at contact@savvycatrealty.com
If a provider no-shows or reschedules, requiring our team to revisit, additional charges will apply. We strive to ensure timely setups, but we have no control over provider schedules.
Whats’s Included:
Coverage Areas:
* For properties located more than 30 km from the nearest agent, additional travel costs apply.
Our agents are based in:
Important notes
To fully protect your interests, we require complete property documentation. Without it, our legal team may be unable to verify all legal aspects of the contract.
The required documents include:
Savvy Cat Realty’s packages are designed to offer comprehensive support tailored to expats moving to Portugal.
Our services include:
Our packages are designed to make the entire relocation process as smooth and stress-free as possible, providing a one-stop solution that covers both real estate and practical relocation needs.
We offer personalized relocation services, including support with property rentals, purchases, investment options, visa guidance, legal support, and more.
We provide services throughout continental Portugal, with local experts in each region. Our coverage excludes the islands of Madeira and the Azores, but we can assist anywhere on the mainland.
We assist by guiding you through the visa and legal requirements for moving to Portugal. We partner with experienced lawyers to ensure everything is done correctly.
We offer services that allow you to begin your relocation journey before arriving in Portugal. From property searches to legal consultations, much of the process can be initiated online.
Yes. Rental packages are pre-paid, service is only started after purchase of package on the website. Buying services a 20% down payment is required to start service and an advisory call must be booked for screening
Yes. We offer Free Clarifications Calls to discuss our services, package options, inclusions, limitations, and service details, including a walkthrough of our operations. In these calls will not answer technical advisory questions on topics such as: what visa to get, where to move to, what kind of property to get, opinion on properties and options, investment advice, etc. If you would like to get technical advice feel free to book an advisory call here: https://savvycatrealty.com/advisory
Yes, We search the whole market, and do in person scouting and off market networking for our clients. But we can not guarantee we will find a match off market for each specific client.
We recommend starting the relocation process as early as possible. In Portugal, the housing market can be somewhat disorganized, with limited open houses available. This means that trying to schedule visits on short notice often relies on luck and the availability of your local representative. Rental services should be initiated 1 to 2 months before the planned start of contract.
Starting early ensures smooth scheduling for property visits, legal steps, and other arrangements.
Savvy Cat’s stellar team made the negotiation, legal paperwork, appointments, etc., all happen seamlessly, with their guidance.
I can’t say enough good things about Savvy Cat Realty, and our awesome agent, Diana.
I am so grateful that I chose Savvy’s services; it might be one of the best decisions I have made in recent years. Their services were tailored to accommodate new immigrants like myself, and I quickly found the apartment of my dreams.
Not only were they able to help us buy our dream vacation property in a short period of time, they helped make the transition and legal processes easier as a foreigner in Portugal. Great service, quick turnaround and turnkey packages. Highly recommended.
I highly recommend working with Savvy Cat if you are looking to relocate to Portugal. I could have never have done it without them!
Super highly recommend working with Savvy Cat! My husband and I are now living in an apartment in our first choice neighborhood in Porto priced at about 65% of our (very realistic) budget. We feel extremely grateful to Savvy Cat and would recommend them to anyone interested in moving to Portugal.
While we accomplished many of the tasks associated with the visa and moving process on our own, “outsourcing” the procurement of a long-term lease and getting the utilities set up was one of the best decisions we could have made. It was definitely money well spent, an excellent value for the services provided. Highly recommend.
We worked with Savvy Cat Realty to find an apartment and what a great experience! Both Ana and Teresa were great. They offer several buying and renting packages that fit everyone’s housing needs and they really support you as a buyer and/or renter. We highly recommend them and will use them again in the future. Muito Obrigada Savvy Cat Realty!!!!!
We’ve had a fantastic experience working with Marco and Savvy Cat Realty. From our very first contact with Savvy Cat, communication has been easy and effective.
My husband and I needed to find an apartment in Porto for ourselves and our two schnauzers. SavvyCat was recommended to us by some friends who had successfully used them in the Algarve. We were paired up with Teresa, who grew up in Porto, and her advice was excellent.
Savvy Cat and João expertly guided us through the processes we would have found difficult and challenging on our own. From getting our NIFs, setting up bank accounts, and house hunting, through to completing the house purchase, sorting utilities and getting the house habitable, we were accompanied by someone who knew exactly what was going on and what needed to be done.
Ski and I could not be happier!
It’s been wonderful having Diana with us every step of the way since before we arrived in Portugal.
