Rental market

Buying a house to put on the rental market brought in a gross yield of 7.2% for landlords in the first quarter of the year. This amount was 0.1% below the same period in 2024 but 0.6% greater [...]

Overseas residents outside the European Union are now taking the lead in interest for property acquisitions in Portugal, according to the online estate agency platform Idealista. In it’s recently [...]

The supply of rooms for rent in shared houses increased by 56% in the fourth quarter of 2024, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to an analysis published by Idealista, [...]

One-fifth of landlords in Portugal’s rental market have not updated their rental contracts by the 6.94% agreed with last government, fearing it would drive their tenants to default or to leave. [...]

There is a discrepancy of 30% between the cost of actual rents in Lisbon and the amount that tenants think they’ll have to pay. The average price o rent an apartment in the capital has soared to [...]

The increase in the number of houses for rent on the market, seen as a key to lowering the price of rents, does not seem to be working, with no sign that this goal is being achieved by either the [...]

Despite Lisbon continuing to be one of the most expensive cities to live in Europe, housing rents fell for the second quarter running by 2.2%. The average price per square metre for rented [...]

The maximum increase on rents that landlords can charge tenants has been set at 6.94% for 2024. This percentage has been fixed under the New Urban Rental Regime (NRAU) and the coefficient is the [...]

The price of renting a home in Portugal skyrocketed 20.4% in 2023, costing on average €15.5/m2. Coimbra saw the greatest rent rises at 31.8% (€10.6m/2) while the cost of renting in the capital [...]

By the end of the second quarter of 2023 the average price of rents on properties in 41 districts across Portugal has gone up by 10% or over on 2022 and in one municipality rents went up by 80%. [...]