Flights to and from Portugal’s national airports increased 6.8% to 15.5 million passengers in the second quarter of 2018. However, it was a reduction like-for-like on the 11.9% seen in the first [...]

The price of homes in Portugal soared by an average of 11.2% in the second half of the year amid fears that the Portuguese housing market is overheating. However, there are signs that the market [...]

Altice Portugal is pushing for insolvency and compensation from wholesale telecoms group Nowo/ONI. Nowo/ONI says, however, that it is “bewildered” by the move from Altis Portugal (the country’s [...]

Portuguese shoes are neck-and-neck with Italian shoes in terms of quality and price. According to the President of the Portuguese Footwear, Leatherwear and Related Articles (APICCAPS), Luís [...]

Portuguese government to allow REITs The Portuguese government will present a proposal by the end of the year for the creation of Real Estate Investment Funds (REITS). The announcement was made [...]

Since their introduction in 2012, Portugal’s Golden Visa scheme and Non-Habitual Residents programme has netted Portugal €15Bn in revenues. Luís Lima, President of the Portuguese Real Estate and [...]

The 2017 Nobel Prize winer for Economics, Richard Thaler warned on Tuesday that Portugal’s real estate market was “heated”. Speaking at the Vertex conference in Porto, the co-author of the book [...]

The urgency for a new international airport for Lisbon will top the agenda at this year’s Portuguese Tourism Summit on 27 September. The Fourth Portuguese Tourism Summit will be organised by the [...]

High levels of debt held by countries and institutions coupled with trade tariffs could spark the next major financial crisis. On the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers which [...]

The banks Montepio and Crédito Agrícola are likely to merge in the future according to the President of the Associação Mutualista Montepio, Tomás Correia. Addressing the International Club of [...]