The Portuguese government has decided to postpone ratifying part of its controversial Housing Package which in a bid to solve some of Portugal’s housing shortage, has stirred up a hornets nest of [...]
Public bodies and associations have only been given a period of 10 days of public consultation to try and decipher and digest exactly how the Portuguese government will implement its [...]
An avalanche of confusion has been created by the Government’s decision to “freeze” all Golden Visa applications filed after February 16 – the day it announced a controversial Housing [...]
La Palice was a French soldier, from the XVI century, about whom songs were written. Then a verse of one such song was changed, to something like: “if he hadn’t died, he would be [...]
All applications for Portugal’s Golden Visa from 16 February this year are to be frozen and any new applications will not be accepted. The decision was taken to avoid a sudden rush to get [...]
Off-shore funds will be exempt from paying capital gains if they sell residential properties to the State to ease Portugal’s chronic housing shortage. The measure is part of the Government’s [...]
Opinion: By Hugo Santos Ferreira, President of the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors (APPII). Real estate developers and investors are looking forward to the [...]
A controversial government plan to force the owners of empty properties to rent them out in a bid to solve Portugal’s chronic housing shortage could be ruled unconstitutional. The State says it [...]
Portugal’s new Housing Package unveiled on Thursday last week was bound not to please anyone. And thus it has proved to be; labelled as “an attack on private property” which showed Portugal was [...]
In the past five years, for every 10 homes sold, only one has been built in Portugal according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). The online news source ECO reports that since 2018 [...]
