Housing market

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 [...]

About 8% of the homes for sale advertised on the online home hunting site idealista in December 2024 were sold in less than a week. 20% had been on the market between a week and a month, 31% [...]

About 8% of the homes for sale advertised on the online home hunting site idealista in December 2024 were sold in less than a week. 20% had been on the market between a week and a month, 31% [...]

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 housing crisis continues to be challenging, particularly for those trying to get onto the housing ladder, as a recent study from estate agency Century 21 ‘Housing for Young People in [...]

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 [...]

Portugal’s Minister who represents territorial cohesion, Manuel Castro Almeida says the government is to “increase the supply of land” to build affordable homes for Portugal’s middle classes. On [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]