Housing

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 [...]

A study by NetCredit has revealed that the French, British, Spanish and Germans would have to save less of their average salaries to buy a property in Lisbon than the Portuguese to acquire a [...]

It’s official. Portugal’s successful Golden Visa programme, which has netted the government over €6Bn since 2012, is to end in a bid to put a stop to property speculation which the government and [...]

The demand for new construction in Portugal registered a fall of 45.1% in November on the same period in 2021. It was a negative trend that extended to all other parts of the Portuguese real [...]

A new housing project for the south bank of Lisbon’s River Tagus ‘JaBa – Jardim Barreiro’ will create 68 new homes. Developed by Mazarik and Bastidor from a project designed by Muto – [...]