Forced rental measures passed by parliament
The Portuguese parliament has approved a controversial law which allows private properties which have been left standing empty two years or more, and show no active utilities contract in terms of [...]
The Portuguese parliament has approved a controversial law which allows private properties which have been left standing empty two years or more, and show no active utilities contract in terms of [...]
Portugal’s residential real estate market continues to be buoyant thanks to high demand and lack of supply. Increases in prices have been among the highest in the euro area over the past 12 [...]
The parliamentary group of the ruling Partido Socialista (PS) has suggested that the Government should introduce “a tax sweetener incentive” to its controversial ‘More Housing’ package which aims [...]
The association that represents Portugal’s estate agencies and brokers has warned that rents will likely go up despite the Government’ s Housing Package aimed at providing more housing at [...]
The Portuguese government has announced through its Ministry of Housing that existing rental contracts will remain outside the current rental regime — indefinitely – in order to protect [...]
A controversial government plan to force the owners of empty properties to rent them out in a bid to solve Portugal’s chronic housing shortage could be ruled unconstitutional. The State says it [...]
It’s official. Portugal’s successful Golden Visa programme, which has netted the government over €6Bn since 2012, is to end in a bid to put a stop to property speculation which the government and [...]
The average price of houses in Portugal saw a like-for-like growth of 13.5% in Q3 of 2022, settling at €1,492/m2. Nevertheless, it was a slowdown on Q2 of 17.8% according to the National [...]
Most of the homes available to rent in Lisbon will set tenants back over €1,000 per month. Only 8% of homes to rent are under this amount, while properties with rents under €750 only account for [...]
The Portuguese Association of Pension and Patrimony Investment Funds says it is against rent freezes in 2023. To compensate the freeze, the Government says it will provide some tax benefits to [...]