About this directory

Finding a plumber in the Algarve still works the way it always has: you ask around. Someone knows a guy. The name and the number get passed along in community groups, forums and over garden walls — and the best painters, pool people, builders and fixers have never needed anything else. Many have no website, no reviews, and aren't even on Google Maps.

That word-of-mouth is the most valuable directory in the region, and it lives scattered across thousands of posts nobody can search. AlgarvePros collects it. We read the public posts, ads and listings where locals recommend and warn each other, and put every service pro we could find in one place — 1,400 businesses Google doesn't know at all, alongside everyone it does.

It's a directory, not a marketplace: no accounts, no quotes, no middleman. You look someone up, you get their number, you call. The ones real people vouched for come first; nobody can pay their way up.

Built by a local resident who got tired of the hunt. It's free, carries no ads, and stays that way. If your business is listed and you'd like it corrected or removed, use the remove a listing form — removals are honored permanently.