Mercator Group

Corridor footprint

Real-estate brokerage group that describes itself as being of Swedish origin: founded in 1968, with roots in the Swedish company JM, and active in the Portuguese property market since 1973. Its Portuguese operating company is Mercator – Sociedade de Mediação Imobiliária, Lda (NIF 503052140, Av.ª Aida, Bloco 1, Loja 111, Estoril Garden, 2765-187 Estoril; CAE 68311, real-estate brokerage; AMI licence 203). Since 2010 the group has run its own sales teams in Sweden and Norway under the Portugal Mäklarna and Portugal Megleren brands; the Swedish company is PortugalMäklarna Sweden AB (org. no. 559038-0662, Ekerö).

According to the company’s website, the group says it has handled around 40% of the Scandinavian investors who bought property in Portugal over the past decade, with a market share of about 80% in some areas such as the municipality of Cascais. Mercator Group is listed as a corporate member of the Swedish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (Câmara de Comércio Luso-Sueca), which has published an announcement of Célia Figueiredo’s appointment as Mercator’s executive director, quoting Peter Billton as CEO of Mercator Group.

Why this matters

Mercator Group sits inside the Portugal ↔ Scandinavia business corridor that NorthSouth HQ tracks every day. A Swedish-founded brokerage that has sold Portuguese homes to Scandinavian buyers for five decades, with its own sales teams in Sweden and Norway, is a direct measure of how Nordic residential demand reaches the Lisbon coast and the wider Portuguese property market.