Housing

  Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Fernando Bento Since becoming Mayor of Lisbon in 2021, Carlos Moedas, a former EU Commissioner for Technology has been anything but idle. From renovating over a [...]

Portugal’s government has approved reducing VAT on construction to 6% and the creation of Build to Rent contracts with tax benefits. However, the government will put up property transfer tax or [...]

House prices in Portugal hit record again with climb of 17.2% It goes on and on without any sign of stopping. The reason? Demand for residential properties in Portugal has grown 15.1% while [...]

A new housing project aimed at the middle classes has been launched in the Greater Lisbon area. Located in Prior Velho, Loures, Project Horizon will be built on 5.8 hectares of land, featuring [...]

The cost of building new homes went up again in June, this time by 3.9% in like-for-like terms – a rate above the 0.3% registered in May while labour costs rose 7.3% and materials by 1%. [...]

The Mayor of Oeiras – one of Portugal’s wealthiest municipalities – has called on the Portuguese government to get more involved in solving Portugal’s chronic affordable housing [...]

The price of houses in the first quarter of 2025 enjoyed a like-for-like 16.3% increase and a QoQ increase of 4.7% according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE). In the period [...]

The prices of the most exclusive houses in Portugal rose by 17% in May compared to May in 2024. Exclusive means the 10% of the Portuguese housing market where properties, because of a range of [...]

Planning applications for new build construction works suffered a slight downward trend between 2011 and 2023, creating asymmetrical pressure on the coast and metropolitan areas, according to a [...]

The Government has unveiled an ambitious project to build 25,000 homes – Tagus Cities Park – that promises to transform part of the River Tagus riverside into a large metropolis, [...]