Inflation

Restaurants and hotels were the biggest contributors to inflation in May, the month in which Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny made his debut in Portugal. According to the National Institute of [...]

The inflation rate rose to 3.3% in Portugal in April because of the increase in cost of fuel. “As seen in the previous month (March), the acceleration of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is mainly [...]

The inflation rate accelerated to 2.7% in March, 0.6 percentage points higher than in February, mainly reflecting the increase in fuel prices, the National Statistics Institute (INE) announced [...]

Drug prices in Portugal will have to rise “sooner or later” due to inflation and political pressure, factors that tend to bring European prices closer to those practiced in the United [...]

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is reigniting concerns among the CEOs of Portugal’s leading companies as they watch the effects of the crisis unfold on stock markets, the energy [...]

Construction costs for new housing registered a year-on-year increase of 4% in December and a rise of 0.9 percentage points (p.p.) compared to the previous month, according to data from the New [...]

Construction costs on new housing saw a like-for-like increase of 3.8% but a fall of 0.9% on July according to data from the index of New Housing Construction Costs (ICCHN), published by [...]

Urban building rents are likely to rise by up to 2.2% next year according to inflation data published on Wednesday. Although the annual rent coefficient update is set and based on the average [...]

Building houses in Portugal is getting increasingly expensive with costs up 3.8% YoY and 3.2% on February. Portugal’s National Statistics Institute (INE) estimates that the costs of building new [...]

Between January 2011 and December 2023 house prices in Greater Lisbon and the Metropolitan Area of Porto doubled. In this period house prices continued to skyrocket, except during a brief [...]