Since Lisbon’s Mayor Carlos Moedas took office in September 2022 after winning an unlikely victory, he decided that he would serve the people, listening to their problems, and get things done. So [...]

The Algarve town of Lagos is well known as a seaside destination that welcomes a vast variety of tourists all-year-round and it is fast becoming known as the latest hot spot for digital nomads in [...]

When Carlos Moedas won Lisbon City Hall in the municipal elections in September 2021 by a tight margin he faced a politically hostile group of councillors in which his PSD party was in the [...]

Fátima Perdigão has been a consistent, and indefatigable part of Portugal’s property landscape for 35 years. Chris Graeme looks back at a career that was not always easy. Fátima Perdigão is one [...]

Developer Jeffrey E. Levine is an extraordinarily successful entrepreneur in New York, one of the most difficult and competitive real estate markets in the world. He started with nothing and [...]

CRYPTOCURRENCIES ARE AN INCREASINGLY COMMON MEANS OF CARRYING OUT TRANSACTIONS QUICKLY, SECURELY AND AT REDUCED COSTS, WITHOUT THE INTERVENTION OF ANY INTERMEDIARY ENTITIES. ESSENTIAL BUSINESS [...]

  The former minister of State for the Economy and Digital Transition, Pedro Siza Vieira explained why Portugal was the place for investors in his opening address to the Portugal Real Estate [...]

Quinta do Lago, one of the loveliest golf, sports and lifestyle resorts in the Algarve, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Essential Business talks to founder André Jordan, who reminisces [...]

British royalty has not always been kind to Portugal over the 636 years that England (and later the United Kingdom) and Portugal have enjoyed what still is the longest unbroken treaty in the [...]

WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR CAREER YOU CAN’T LEAVE THINGS TO CHANCE OR FORTUNE. STRATEGY AND NETWORKING ARE VITAL SAYS SUSANA MIRANDA OF THE SM GROUP   An old Portuguese saying has it that we [...]