More Housing Package

A government bill which would have reduced VAT on construction projects for affordable housing to 6% has been rejected by the Portuguese parliament. The measure was part of other measures [...]

The Portuguese government will not totally abandon the ‘More Housing’ package policy announced by the previous PS Socialist Party government in February, 2023 but will keep some aspects and [...]

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 [...]

Around 30% of local accommodation licences failed to make the December 13 deadline to deliver a proof of activity to city councils and have now had their licenses automatically cancelled. Of the [...]

The Portuguese public blames real estate developers and sector companies in general for the country’s affordable housing crisis according to an survey conducted by the proptech Imobiliária [...]

The Portuguese government forced through its unpopular and controversial More Housing package in the parliament on Friday using its socialist party majority. It means that despite his grave [...]

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 [...]

After not raising any constitutional concerns over the Portuguese government’s controversial More Housing programme a week ago, Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has now vetoed the [...]

Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has ruled out sending a controversial set of public housing policies that include coercive rental measures to the constitutional court to decide if [...]