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A survey, which canvassed real estate developers about the perceived effects of the Government’s ‘More Housing’ programme unveiled in February, revealed that it would have negative effects on the [...]

Investment through Portugal’s Golden Visa programme more than doubled in March to €78.4 million and increased 42% in the second quarter according to Lusa basing its calculations on data from the [...]

Text: Natasha Donn – Portugal Resident/Lusa Lisbon City Council is to extend its restrictions on Local Accommodation licences to five additional ‘bairros’ or neighbourhoods in the city. The [...]

Top brass members of TAP may have received around €1.2 million in bonuses and €19 million in salaries through the provision of services to Atlantic Gateway at the time that Brazilian-American [...]

Novobanco and Banco Best have been ordered by a court to return €200,000 plus interest to a saver whose investments were swallowed up by the 2014 BES bonds fiasco. The saver had unwittingly [...]

Manuel Pinho, the former Minister of the Economy under the José Sócrates government (2005-2011) is to face trial over corruption charges. The former PS minister will join ex-banker Ricardo [...]

The ratings agency Fitch has maintained Portugal’s sovereign debt rating at BBB+ with a stable outlook. It is the third ratings agency to keep Portugal’s rating unaltered this year. In a [...]

A law introduced by the Portuguese Government to eliminate VAT on a typical shopping basket of essential goods comes into force tomorrow. (Tuesday, April 18) The law, confirmed in the Portuguese [...]

Portugal’s tourism sector saw revenues grow by 60.3% in February like-for-like on 2022, posting 1.7million guests (+33%) and 4 million (+38.5%) overnight stays. Total revenues stood at €245.7 [...]

The President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, has written a letter to the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa calling for a stay of termination for the [...]