Housing market

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 [...]

There is a discrepancy of 30% between the cost of actual rents in Lisbon and the amount that tenants think they’ll have to pay. The average price o rent an apartment in the capital has soared to [...]

Despite Lisbon continuing to be one of the most expensive cities to live in Europe, housing rents fell for the second quarter running by 2.2%. The average price per square metre for rented [...]