Urban Rehabilitation

Lisbon Municipal Council has given the green light to a €2Bn redevelopment and urban regeneration housing project on parcels of brown field industrial land at Matinha in East Lisbon. The project, [...]

It is amazing to consider that Lisbon, along with Athens and Rome, is one of three capital cities in Europe that have been continuously populated since antiquity. This fact was driven home while [...]

Portugal’s National Association of Portuguese Municipalities is calling on the government to slash VAT to 6% on construction projects in Urban Regeneration designated areas. Business daily [...]

Economy minister praises region’s potential as a hub for foreign capital In a move aimed at attracting significant international investment, the Portuguese government has unveiled plans to create [...]

Eastbanc Portugal, with its focus on urban regeneration, has a portfolio of properties worth over €115 million in Lisbon spread over 20 buildings in the Príncipe Real district and it doesn’t stop [...]

In 2023, 4,750 residential properties were transacted in Lisbon’s Urban Refurbishment Area (ARU) worth a total of €2.2Bn. Foreigners were responsible for 33% of purchases and 41% of the total [...]

Contracts signed with Portugal’s Institute for Housing and Urban Regeneration (IHRU) have guaranteed that properties done up under the regime will be eligible for a lower VAT rate of 6% It means [...]

The winners of the 11th edition of the Portuguese Urban Rehabilitation Awards were announced at a ceremony held this week at the National Palace of Ajuda in Lisbon. The cites of Alcobaça, Lisbon [...]

Portugal’s annual Urban Rehabilitation Week was a “great success” according to the organisers of the event which ran between March 29-31 at LX Factory in Lisbon. The week’s agenda of conferences [...]

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 [...]