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Portugal is the country in the OECD where it is hardest to purchase a home the organization says. In fact, finding a home here is more difficult now than at any time since 1995 when OECD records [...]

Portugal Rally (Rally de Portugal) generated €22.6 million of which €13.6 million came from VAT and €9 million from IPS fuel tax in 2024. “The amount represents a direct economic impact of 24.1% [...]

In December 2024, Portugal’s construction sector enjoyed the third highest output in terms of projects in the EU with a MoM increase of 3.6% while YoY it had the fourth largest increase (5.1%) [...]

The President of Euronext Lisbon believes that Novobanco has an “interesting” level of liquidity making it eminently suitable for an IPO. Isabel Ucha says she is optimistic about the possibility [...]

The dispatch of products with export documents or as a result of manufacturing work ordered in Portugal for re-export to the US have skyrocketed since the reelection of Donald Trump. According to [...]

Unicorn Factory Lisboa, which had 60% of Portuguese startups that raised money last year, occupied pole position in terms of the total investment raised by Portuguese startups last year. The [...]

The European platform Dealflow is raising €60 million to launch a fund to help European startups from Lisbon. “The focus will be on seed stage startups to Series A. We recently hired a senior [...]

The rock and pop festival Rock in Rio (RiR) will have generated an impact of the equivalent of €120 million for Portugal’s economy and represents €11.8 million in tax revenues (VAT and IRS). This [...]

Portugal’s commercial retail real estate sector attracted €1.2Bn of investment in 2024. It represented half of all the investment ploughed into commercial real estate last year. This was more [...]

Porto has once again done well in Financial Times rankings, this time as the Best European City for Foreign Direct Investment Attraction. It is the fourth year in which the city has been placed [...]