Housing

The price of houses in the first quarter of 2025 enjoyed a like-for-like 16.3% increase and a QoQ increase of 4.7% according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE). In the period [...]

The prices of the most exclusive houses in Portugal rose by 17% in May compared to May in 2024. Exclusive means the 10% of the Portuguese housing market where properties, because of a range of [...]

Planning applications for new build construction works suffered a slight downward trend between 2011 and 2023, creating asymmetrical pressure on the coast and metropolitan areas, according to a [...]

The Government has unveiled an ambitious project to build 25,000 homes – Tagus Cities Park – that promises to transform part of the River Tagus riverside into a large metropolis, [...]

The president of Portuguese bank BPI, João Pedro Oliveira said in an interview this week that if Caixa Geral de depósitos purchases all or even part of Novobanco, it would be tantamount to a [...]

Portugal’s Secretary of State for Housing, Patrícia Gonçalves, has admitted that the country’s housing crisis is “a complex problem” and requires “many policies to converge” to provide a robust [...]

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’s Secretary of State for Housing, Patrícia Gonçalves Costa announced several new measures designed to tackle the country’s chronic housing shortage for the middle classes. Giving an [...]

The Spanish real estate crowdfunding platform Urbanite has consolidated its leadership in real estate crowdfunding in Portugal exceeding its financing target by 44% in 2024. In the first full [...]

The Portuguese government has again confirmed that it will slash VAT on the construction or refurbishment of properties for affordable housing to 6%. The confirmation was made by Portugal’s [...]