Housing

A survey has found that 50% of the Portuguese do not believe that the Government’s plan to alleviate the country’s chronic housing shortage will be effective. Around 62% think that the ‘More [...]

The Portuguese Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industries AICCOPN has rejected the Government’s More Housing package saying it will make the tax regime for the real estate [...]

Lisbon’s City Council’s planning chief has pledged to speed up the time it takes for the municipal council to deal with planning applications, the slowness of which has been a bugbear for over 20 [...]

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 [...]