The crumbling ruins of the townhouse development next to equally crumbling Crowne Plaza building. Picture taken May 14th, 2025. Looks like some scaffolding around the old windmill.

I was out walking yesterday in the wild countryside of Patroves when I stumbled upon this half built. Someone must have had money to burn to have built all this and then left it.

This is the vew they would have had, with Armação de Pêra in the distance.

This is it on Google Maps satellte - the square C shape in the centre

Finisterra, near the old cemetery, nearly done. Looked like a couple of prospective buyers were having a loook around.

Another abandoned project, this one in Rua do Vale Santa Maria

I really don't think there is anyone who would be interested.  There is a building that must be demolished, so a 'cost' to begin with...  then there are a couple of very small plots of land that are in the middle of forests (but trees were burned in the large fire a few years ago), as the property is quite small, selling for the value of trees/wood would be little value (and, again, a very specific buyer) and, what trees were there, are now gone anyway.  This land also incurs a cost as we need to 'maintain/clean' the land (not sure what that means exactly but it's just another cost to us).  Also, the town is very small...  I think less than 1,000 people??  So few amenities...  one very small grocery store, one pub/restaurant, etc.

I'd like to get rid of it in bulk...  it doesn't help me to sell/give away one property without the others.  :(   We've tried finding locals who might be interested in it for free but no takers.

But, having said all this...  do you have any idea where/how I could find a person interested in taking it all?  I think the extra plots of land are a 'negative' but, as you said, perhaps there is someone out there.

I have a small inherited property in a small farming town inland that I've been trying to offload.  I can't sell it as there really is no market for it so we're trying to somehow surrender the property but covid closures have delayed any resolution.  

I'd really like to complete it as I'm not familiar with laws and speak little Portuguese, so would just like it 'done'.  We are still paying property taxes; as I'm an heir on the property, I'm concerned that completely abandoning it will come back to haunt me somehow (ie I show up at customs and am told I have an outstanding tax bill to pay before entering country!  IDK if that can happen but would be a really lousy way to start a vacation!  lol)

More or less correct in my understanding. Any unpaid bills associated with the property you buy have to be paid before the transction can be completed.

It's true that the owners of many of the older abandoned properties have simply walked away from them, perhaps in the hope that a buyer will come along and relieve them of the debt. And the inheritance laws are a mess as has been described.

The green tiled building was a prime excample of that for many, many, years but is now being rebuilt and restored at last.