House prices

The average price of houses in Portugal increased by 10.8%, to €1,819/m2 in the third quarter of 2024, compared to the same period last year, this being the highest variation since the third [...]

In the first six months of 2024 overseas investors spent €464 million on buying 800 residential properties in the Lisbon Urban Rehabilitation Area (LURA). The total number of properties purchased [...]

House prices in Portugal have shot up by 83% in real terms between the start of 2013 and the end of 2023 – an amount above Spain’s 23% for the same period according to a study published in [...]

The average price of family properties sold in Portugal rose by 6.6% in the second quarter, compared to the first three months of the year and the same period in 2023, concludes Portugal’s [...]

Spain, Holland and Luxembourg are the main sources of foreign direct investment in Portugal according to data released by the Bank of Portugal. However, in the case of the latter two, both [...]

Young people will still have to put down a 10% deposit on their first home in most municipalities in Portugal despite a government backing to cover 100% of their mortgages. In other words, under [...]

Average house prices rose 1.5% in April compared to March, inverting a trend of house price stabilisation seen in recent months according to housing market statistics from Confidencial [...]

The prices of luxury houses in Lisbon are growing according to the Knight Frank Global Cities Index in which Lisbon comes in 28th place worldwide. Lisbon posted an annual growth rate of 1.8%, [...]

Between January 2011 and December 2023 house prices in Greater Lisbon and the Metropolitan Area of Porto doubled. In this period house prices continued to skyrocket, except during a brief [...]

High taxes in Portugal are the main reason why developers can’t build new affordable housing for the Portuguese middle classes. This is according to Hugo Santos Ferreira, President of the [...]