29 April 2026 · 6 min read
Cape Verde property prices by island: what the KazaVerde index currently shows
Market Islands Data
Last updated: April 2026
Cape Verde is not one property market. It is an archipelago of distinct island markets, each shaped by different levels of foreign demand, tourism infrastructure, and listing activity. A single archipelago-wide average tells you almost nothing.
This piece looks at what the KazaVerde index currently shows island by island — where the tracked sample is large enough to be meaningful, and where it isn't.
The figures below are asking prices from publicly listed properties KazaVerde currently tracks — not closing prices, not the full market, and not legally verified. Source coverage is still expanding. The live numbers on /listings and /market are always the authoritative version.
What the current index shows by island
As of late April 2026, the KazaVerde index tracks roughly four hundred publicly listed properties across the archipelago. The distribution is heavily concentrated in the three islands with the most direct foreign-buyer activity. Three islands carry enough tracked listings to support a useful median:
The deepest tracked sample by a wide margin. Direct international flights and the Santa Maria resort cluster anchor most of the foreign-buyer activity visible on the index.
Second-largest sample, and the highest median of the three. The mix appears weighted toward Praia city stock rather than resort apartments — different inventory, different median, not a "more expensive island."
Third-largest sample. Mix appears weighted toward resort apartments and off-plan stock around Sal Rei, where new-build asking prices can sit above realistic resale benchmarks.
For the live version of these figures, with the underlying listings, see /market and the per-island grids: Sal, Santiago, Boa Vista.
The islands with too little tracked data to price
The remaining islands appear in the index but have samples too thin to support a reliable median. That may reflect genuinely thin local activity, or simply that KazaVerde has not yet onboarded the sources where listings on those islands tend to surface.
- Maio — around twenty tracked listings, but the priced rows cluster at a single low value, which may reflect source or normalization effects rather than a clean market distribution.
- São Nicolau and Fogo — under ten tracked listings each. Counts are real; medians are not yet meaningful.
- São Vicente and Santo Antão — only a handful of tracked listings each. Too thin for KazaVerde to publish a meaningful median.
- Brava — no tracked listings in the index at this snapshot.
If you are specifically researching one of these islands, the most useful step is to look at the individual tracked listings on /listings and follow the source links rather than rely on an aggregate. Coverage on these islands may deepen as new sources are added.
What appears to drive the gap
The variation between islands reflects a few structural factors that pre-date any individual listing:
- Direct flight access. Sal and Boa Vista have international airports with direct European routes. That underwrites most of the foreign-buyer demand visible in the index.
- Sample depth. Sal's ~145 tracked listings allow rough like-for-like comparison inside the sample. Single-digit counts on São Vicente or Santo Antão do not.
- Inventory mix. Santiago's higher median appears driven by Praia city stock; Boa Vista's by resort and off-plan inventory. Mix shapes the headline number more than location alone.
- Connectivity gaps. Santo Antão (ferry only, from São Vicente) and Brava (no airport) sit upstream of any pricing question. Foreign-buyer activity is thinner there, and so is source coverage.
How to use this
These numbers are a snapshot, not a forecast and not a valuation. They are useful for narrowing a shortlist — not for replacing the work of going through individual listings, talking to an independent local lawyer, and checking the source page for any property you take seriously.
For the legal and tax mechanics of buying once you have shortlisted, see the step-by-step buying guide. For an island-by-island comparison framed around lifestyle and use case, see Which Cape Verde island. For methodology and source coverage, see /about.
KazaVerde is an independent property search and data platform — not a broker, agency, or marketplace. Listings are aggregated from publicly accessible sources we currently track and are not legally verified. Always confirm a property's details with the original agent or seller and your own lawyer before acting on any number quoted here.