If last year houses were sold in around three months, this year the time-to-sale is double at between four to six months. The warning was given by the Portuguese Association of Estate Agents and [...]

Mortgage lending by banks in Portugal reached a new record high in 2018 with almost €10Bn lent out last year. According to the Bank of Portugal which published the figures it represent a new [...]

The CEO of property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle Portugal says that there are still “plenty of opportunities” for foreign investors in the commercial property market in Portugal. “Portugal is [...]

Last year will go down for the Portuguese real estate market as the one that beat all records in living memory. It certainly was the best year in terms of transactions since the crisis began in [...]

Sonae Capital is to invest €12 million on a hotel unit within the building that houses Lisbon’s Santa Apolónia station. The space will be leased for up to 35 years from the government. The [...]

There was a notable increase in market confidence in 2018 in the Eastern Algarve property market with average sales up by around 11% (€3,100/m2) on 2017 (€2,250). This was a key finding of the [...]

The Portuguese government has hiked the IMI property tax on houses that have been revalued by 2%. It has updated the average construction value per square metre bringing the average increase to [...]

After years of stagnation, the construction of brand new office buildings is back in force: an average of 17 new projects are being licensed every month across the width and breadth of the [...]

Average property prices were up by 7.8% in the first quarter of 2018 and 20% in Lisbon and Porto for the same period. The data was revealed last week by the National Statistics Institute which [...]

By Matthew Krystman, Partner, Blevins Franks Home may be where the heart is, but is it where savvy ­investors should focus? We explore the tax implications of two types of ‘home bias’ – UK-based [...]