The Portuguese energy regulator ERSE (Energy Services Regulating Entity) presented provisional natural gas charges and tariffs for the regulated market for the period 1 October 2022 and 30 [...]
The president of Novobanco, António Ramalho, has announced to the bank’s supervisory board of directors that he will step down in August but will remain on as a consultant. The news was broken by [...]
Portugal’s historic villages are increasingly in demand from tourists as is the accommodation to host them, with buoyant bookings for this summer. According to Dalila Dias, the coordinator of a [...]
Covid-19 has given overseas locaters even more appetite to move to Portugal. The big difference is that residential house buyers in resorts want properties in low density areas say pundits. [...]
House rents fall 17.9% Rental charges for houses in Lisbon fell nearly 18% below pre-Covid levels by the end of Q3 this year according to the latest results from Residential Rents Index compiled [...]
The Banco Espírito Santo led by Ricardo Salgado was an outstanding example of cronyism. It supported many clients for personal and political reasons, rather than because their projects were [...]
A major anti-corruption drive was one of the main policy goals at the start of João Lourenço’s presidential term (2017). Beyond the anti-corruption rhetoric since the drive began, the [...]
More than 30% of property investment companies intend to buy up hotels according to a study from Cushman & Wakefield. The findings published in the report ‘Hotel Investor Beat’ show that [...]
Significant structural reforms Portugal made when its economy was supervised by the troika, debt reduction in 2019, and a likelihood of using EU ‘bazooka’ funds to green up and digitalise the [...]
The Canadian group Mercan in partnership with Referência Arrojada (RA Group) is to invest €21 million on a new hotel in the historic town of Évora. The Hilton Garden Inn Évora will have 130 rooms [...]
