The majority of owners of properties rented out to tourists say they are not interested in renting out their apartments to long term tenants to help ease Portugal’s struggling rental market. It [...]

A Portuguese hotel and hospitality association has again called on the Portuguese government to backtrack on changes and measures contained in its ‘More Housing’ programme that it says is [...]

The Portuguese tax authorities are preparing a tax sweep on Local Accommodation properties nationwide, the timing of which, given the government ‘s ‘More Housing’ clampdown on [...]

The suspension of new Local Accommodation licenses in all areas of Portugal except the interior regions and islands has been passed by the Portuguese parliament. The original proposal presented [...]

Those wanting to register their apartment in a horizontal condominiums as Local Accommodation will now have to seek the unanimous approval of all of the other fraction owners under a last-minute [...]

Owners of private guest houses rented out to tourists as Local Accommodation have snubbed the government by refusing to long-lease their premises to local families. Most of those who own [...]

The European Commission could give the thumbs down to the Portuguese Government’s new Local Accommodation laws which aim to restrict the de-characterisation of traditional historic neighbourhoods [...]

Text: Natasha Donn – Portugal Resident/Lusa Lisbon City Council is to extend its restrictions on Local Accommodation licences to five additional ‘bairros’ or neighbourhoods in the city. The [...]

Since the Government announced its Housing Package on March 16, with restrictive rules on guest houses for tourists in Lisbon and Porto and other cities, applications for licences have quadrupled [...]

Hoteliers are against plans by municipal councils in the Algarve to reintroduce the ‘tourism tax’ and even increasing it. The Algarve Resident reports that the idea was put forward by the [...]