In another first to attract overseas investment to Portugal, the government has announced the introduction of the Tech Visa. Unlike the Golden Visa which aims to attract foreign investment but [...]

Society, a company that offers homes you don’t have to buy by creating personalised, design-led apartments in well-connected thriving neighbourhoods, is to move into the Lisbon market. The [...]

Finangeste, Portugal’s oldest loan servicing and real estate asset management company, has large and ambitious urban redevelopment plans for key Portuguese cities.   In an interview with [...]

“Portugal is a country our hotel group wants to be in” says Nuno Galvão Pinto, Regional Vice-President Acquisitions and Developments.  Speaking to Essential Business on the sidelines of the [...]

Work is to start at Castro Marim on an €80 million ecologically sustainable tourist resort which includes a wellness hotel, low-density lodges and areas for detached homes set on an estate close [...]

The first edition of a conference analysing the residential tourism sector in the Algarve and its sustainability in the long and medium terms was a “great success” according to its organisers.  [...]

The US hotel chain Hyatt International plans to open hotels in Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve. Nuno Galvão Pinto, Hyatt’s Regional Vice-President of Acquisitions and Development says that the [...]

The collapse of multinational toy retailer Toys R Us has left the Portuguese toy firm Science4you with a €770,000 black hole in its annual accounts. The Iberian subsidiary of Toys R Us, which has [...]

Digital technology is changing business and the way it is conducted at such a hallucinating pace that it is no mean feat for trade organisations and chambers of commerce to remain relevant to its [...]

The Portuguese telecoms company Pharol has been given the green light by its shareholders to undertake an €80 million capital increase to shore up its position in the Brazilian operator Oi.   [...]