Lisbon City Council

The Portuguese government is to provide a €1Bn package for 12,000 affordable homes. The financial package will be paid out over the next four years. It has authorised the Institute of Housing and [...]

Lisbon closed the (election) year of 2025 with a positive budget balance of €142.3 million, almost six times higher than the €24.6 million recorded in 2024, in a year in which the city council [...]

The General-Secretary of Lisbon City Council, Alberto Laplaine Guimarães, one of four detained in Operation “Lúmen” which is investigating alleged economic crimes in contracts for the [...]

Lisbon City Council has ordered the cancelling of the licenses for 40% of Local Accommodation in Lisbon because they are “inactive”. More precisely, it has ordered the cancelling of 6,765 [...]

Lisbon City Council is to discuss a new Local Accommodation regulation next week drawn up by council executives. The move comes amid sharp criticisms from left-wing councilors who fear a rush to [...]

The Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas says that cruise ship tourism doesn’t bring money into the city and that he would have never taken the decision to build a new cruise ship terminal in the [...]

Lisbon City Council is mulling a €2 hike on the city’s tourist tax, effectively doubling it from €2 to €4, and includes cruise ship passengers. According to Jornal de Negócios the goal is to [...]