Housing market

According to the latest Alfredo Prices Index Report undertaken in partnership with Doutor Finances, house transactions fell by €3.8Bn to the same amount transacted in 2021. To December 2023, [...]

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 [...]

The government has approved IMT property tax exemption and stamp duty for young people for the purchase of their first home. The approval was announced after a Council of Ministers meeting on [...]

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 [...]

Portugal’s new centre-right Democratic Alliance coalition government has unveiled a 30-measure programme with defined deadlines to tackle the country’s affordable housing crisis. It has to be [...]

Portugal GRI, arguably the most discreet and selective business event of the year, where movers and shakers get to talk behind closed doors without the glare of press scrutiny, returns to Lisbon [...]

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 [...]

House prices in Portugal increased by 10% in 130 districts of the country last year, although overall the pace of property inflation slowed according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). [...]

There were more houses on the market for sale in Portugal in the first quarter of 2024 with supply up by 11% like-for-like on 2023. This is according to the online estate agency Idealista, which [...]