Housing

The Portuguese government will more than double the public offer of housing, compared to plans from the previous socialist government led by António Costa, on the back of the Recovery and [...]

Portugal’s construction, engineers, architects and economists associations have joined forces with 14 of the country’s leading construction companies to form a Construction Foundation. The [...]

The cost of building new homes in Portugal increased 3.4% in May in like-for-like terms on the same month in 2023, +0.1% more than in April according to the National Statistics Institute. (INE) [...]

At the latest RedBridge Community event in Lisbon on June 20, Julian Johnson, founder and partner of Tejo Ventures and founder of the Little Lions project, and Jorge van Krieken, founder of Green [...]

The Portuguese cannot wait four years for affordable housing according to the President of the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors (APPII), Hugo Santos Ferreira. [...]

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 [...]

Eastbanc Portugal, with its focus on urban regeneration, has a portfolio of properties worth over €115 million in Lisbon spread over 20 buildings in the Príncipe Real district and it doesn’t stop [...]

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 [...]

A Portuguese construction association boss says the country needs 45,000 new build houses to solve Portugal’s chronic affordable housing shortage. The President of the Association of Civil [...]