Housing crisis

Portugal saw the biggest increase in house prices, both Year-on-Year and Quarter-on-Quarter in the European Union in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest data from Eurostat. House [...]

  Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Fernando Bento Since becoming Mayor of Lisbon in 2021, Carlos Moedas, a former EU Commissioner for Technology has been anything but idle. From renovating over a [...]

Portugal’s government has approved reducing VAT on construction to 6% and the creation of Build to Rent contracts with tax benefits. However, the government will put up property transfer tax or [...]

A new housing project aimed at the middle classes has been launched in the Greater Lisbon area. Located in Prior Velho, Loures, Project Horizon will be built on 5.8 hectares of land, featuring [...]

The cost of building new homes went up again in June, this time by 3.9% in like-for-like terms – a rate above the 0.3% registered in May while labour costs rose 7.3% and materials by 1%. [...]

The Mayor of Oeiras – one of Portugal’s wealthiest municipalities – has called on the Portuguese government to get more involved in solving Portugal’s chronic affordable housing [...]

Portugal’s government is running a serious risk of failing to meet its pledge to build nearly 60,000 new homes at affordable prices to help solve the country’s housing crisis unless its reduces [...]

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 [...]

Young overseas residents in Portugal are applying for the government ’s public guarantee to purchase homes in Portugal, Brazilians being the main group according to a report in the news [...]

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 [...]