Housing

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 [...]

Portugal’s ‘More Housing’ programme introduced in February, 2023 in a bid to help offset the country’s chronic affordable housing crisis in Lisbon, Porto and parts of the Algarve, was hotly [...]

There is a discrepancy of 30% between the cost of actual rents in Lisbon and the amount that tenants think they’ll have to pay. The average price o rent an apartment in the capital has soared to [...]

There are four root problems causing Portugal’s housing crisis says the president of the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors. (APPII) In an interview with the news [...]

A significant slice of new apartments, whose applications for planning permission have been submitted to municipal councils in Portugal over the past 5 years, have yet to receive planning [...]

Lisbon City Council has introduced new rules to make investments “more agile and appetising” for developers to build affordable council housing in the city. It means there will be more social [...]

Portugal has become a haven for affluent international investors and expats due to its favourable climate, low cost of living, stable economy, safety, and attractive residency options. The [...]