Rental market

The cost of renting a house or apartment in Portugal fell 1.9% on average in January like-for-like on 2024 in a downward trend seen over the last quarter of 2025. According to the idealista price [...]

New housing rental leases in Lisbon reached a plateau and remained stable in Lisbon according to the latest market study by Confidencial Imobiliário. Rental prices charged in new lease agreements [...]

The new 10% IRS tax that Portugal’s government aims to apply to income from renting buildings will now include all rental contracts for rents within the so-called moderate values, regardless of [...]

Portugal’s government has agreed a new IMT flat tax of 7.5%  on property for overseas residents who are not domiciled in the country for tax purposes. It is one element of what are certainly the [...]

The price of renting a house in Portugal’s rental market increased by 5.7% in October compared to the same month in 2024. And renting a house cost €17/m2 for the first time. In Lisbon that cost [...]

Portugal’s government has approved reducing VAT on construction to 6% and the creation of Build to Rent contracts with tax benefits. However, the government will put up property transfer tax or [...]

Quintela + Penalva | Knight Frank, through its partner Knight Frank in London, says in its latest report Prime Rental Index that the luxury rental market worldwide posted a solid recovery in the [...]

Urban building rents are likely to rise by up to 2.2% next year according to inflation data published on Wednesday. Although the annual rent coefficient update is set and based on the average [...]

Maleo Offices, which has been in Portugal for five years, is to launch a new department for the housing market called Maleo Living. The company will launch its first project in a €4 million [...]

New rental contracts signed in Lisbon in the second quarter of 2025 were -3.4% below the cost of rent charged during the same quarter in 2024 according to the Index of Residential Rents [...]