Housing

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 – [...]

Over 70% of Portugal’s building stock is energetically inefficient and nearly all buildings need renovating to meet them according to a study from the environmental association Zero. Zero [...]

Building costs have hit a new record in Portugal according to the latest statistics from Portugal’s National Statistics Institute (INE). The New Housing Construction Costs Index displayed an [...]

A government programme to support access to affordable housing has already secured €1.2Bn from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Plan. There has been a lack of new build affordable housing for the [...]