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Portugal’s Golden Visa programme did make it difficult for Portuguese nationals to have access to housing at affordable rates because it inflated house prices. This is according to a report [...]

Tax payers’ subsidies to Portugal’s banking system reflected in deferred taxes had a €459 million negative impact on the public finances in 2022. The Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) is a mechanism that [...]

Portugal’s housing minister, Marina Gonçalves admitted this week that municipal rent subsidy programmes can co-exist with government initiatives in this area. Marina Gonçalves (pictured) says [...]

Santander Portugal has posted a growth in profits of 21.4% to March 2023 to €180 million. The bank admits that it has seen less depositors while new mortgages are at the their lowest level since [...]

The Lisbon Port Authority (Administração do Porto de Lisboa (APL) ) has begun to inform the concession holders of the port terminals in the Eastern zone of Lisbon that it does not intend to renew [...]

Most people think they know what crypto currencies and blockchain are. But do they really know how it will impact business and what are the ramifications for the future? Essential Business [...]

Socialist parties are usually known for taxing taxpayers to the hilt, but not in the case of Portugal’s governing PS socialist party which has pledged to make a major tax giveaway; perhaps the [...]

The average price of homes sold in Portugal shot up by 14.4% in 2022 compared to 2021 according to statistics published by the Portuguese statistics institute INE. That translated into an average [...]

The French fund management company Corum Investments is to increase its investments in commercial real estate in Portugal. The company is to invest in two or three real estate projects outside of [...]

Investment in private equity has grown significantly in Portugal and all over the world over the past two years. Given the current macroeconomic backdrop, the high volatility of inflation rates [...]