Real Estate
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- The ultra-rich now own nearly four homes each. Portugal is well placed to be one of them
- House prices in Portugal: the tracker
- Lisbon debuts on the UBS bubble index (in the elevated-risk tier, next to Miami and Dubai)
- Did cutting 6,765 short-term lets bring Lisbon rents down? The numbers say no
- Portugal's BUPi land registration is free until 30 September, then the fees come back
- The rule that sets Portugal's affordable rents is 90 days past its own legal deadline
- The EU's new housing law is not just an Airbnb law (empty flats and second homes are in it too)
- Only two Portuguese regions issued more building permits this spring
- Évora is planning 7,000 new homes and a health cluster (and wants your comments by 12 October)
- The district where Portuguese house prices rose fastest is not Lisbon or Porto
- Rents rose in 14 of Portugal's 19 districts last month
- 22 million property adverts, 30 countries, one finding: Lisbon is near the bottom
- Porto promised 1,000 affordable homes by 2026. It will end the year with 588
- House prices are falling worldwide. Portugal's went up 15.2%
- Portugal now taxes some rent at nothing at all (if the landlord takes the council's ceiling)
- A September mortgage reset costs 70 euros a month more than last September
- Rooms to rent in Portugal barely got dearer this year (demand for them jumped 27%)
- The average mortgage in Portugal costs 414 euros a month. New borrowers pay 731
- 43% of rental listings in Évora disappear within 24 hours
- The rate that prices four in ten Portuguese mortgages just hit a 21-month high
- Did you pay 23% VAT on rehab work in an ARU? A new law says it should have been 6%
- Portugal promised the EU 26,000 homes. It now says 28,000 by the end of August
- Two new Tagus crossings are promised within ten years (and one of them lands in Barreiro)
- How much unpaid rent costs you your home in Portugal? Two months, if this reform passes
- Faro has overtaken Lisbon as Portugal's priciest district to rent in
- A Spanish fund has bought the old Grémio da Lavoura in Coimbra. Housing is what comes next
- Estate agent confidence in Portugal's rental market has hit a record low
- Sell a home, buy one to rent out, and Portugal may waive the capital-gains tax
- One in ten homes for sale in Portugal is gone within a week
- Landlords can raise rents 2.56% in 2027. On a €1,000 rent that is €25.60 a month
- The decision to expropriate land in Portugal has just moved to the town hall
- The 12-month Euribor is back to costing you €65 a month
- Portugal's house prices just set a record for the ninth month running
- Lisbon is building 11 affordable-rent flats right next to Jardim da Estrela
- Lisbon University is opening 1,018 more student beds right as placements land
- Estate agencies just had their best half-year ever and still can't find houses to sell
- Portugal's mortgage rules changed on 1 August and the affordability cap drops to 45%
- Dutch buyers are now outbuying the British in Spain, which has never happened before
- Property took 46% of Portugal's foreign investment, and it has never weighed this much
- Portugal's new building-permit rules aren't starting on 3 August after all
- Your second IMI instalment is due by 31 August, but only if your bill tops 500 euros
- Portugal has now counted 60,000 state-owned properties, and wants 80,000 on the list by December
- Portugal's emergency rent support has 50,000-plus cases stuck, and now Deco has stepped in
- Only one in three homes for sale or rent in Portugal has air conditioning, and the heat is already here
- Portugal's interior has broken into the top 50 for rental demand
- Condo boards in Portugal want one insurance policy per building, and the law still says no
- Prosecutors want the Parede Hilton stopped and partly demolished, and Cascais is going to court
- Portugal's Housing Emergency Fund now has rules — and some tenants are shut out
- There are fewer and fewer homes to rent in Portugal, and supply just dropped 22%
- B&B Hotels has teamed up with Casais to build hotels production-line style — the next one is rising in Amadora
- Public housing rent arrears in Portugal top €48 million — and Lisbon owes €44 million of it
- Portugal just unlocked the sale of inherited homes stuck in family disputes
- Buying a house in Portugal now comes with a climate check — 87% weigh the risks first
- Energy certificates in Portugal cost 120-250 euros and you can't sell or rent without one — 2026 guide
- Selling a home in Portugal — the real costs, from agency fees to capital gains tax, explained for 2026
- Portugal's new building-permit rules kick in on 3 August — and a silent council now means yes
- Portugal's new affordable rent regime starts 1 September and wipes out the landlord's income tax entirely — here's the small print
- Portugal is keeping the 100% mortgage guarantee for under-35s, whatever the IMF says
- Homes under €300,000: only one in three on sale in Portugal
- Lisbon sells 10 municipal plots for a minimum of €59.2 million — the left wanted 500 homes
- Buy-to-let in Portugal yields 6.2%: returns are falling, but so is the risk
- US housing law: biggest affordability bill in decades takes effect without Trump's signature
- Rent control ending for new leases in Portugal: what changes for tenants and landlords
- Alentejo tourism: 339 industrialised holiday homes coming to Santo André
- Industrialised construction: Portugal's Casais and Spain's ACR launch CREE Iberia
- Mortgage credit in Portugal: homes between 250,000 and 500,000 euros now dominate brokered loans
- VAT refund on self-build homes in Portugal: how to claim from July 2026
- Bonfim: Porto opens public consultation on 683-million-euro regeneration plan
- Affordable rent in Porto: Porto Vivo adds 159 more homes by December
- Porta 65-Jovem 2026: how much rent support young renters get
- Porto affordable housing: 331 rental homes in Campanhã from €536 a month
- Portugal's youth mortgage scheme 2026: how to buy a home with 100% financing (before it ends)
- Spain's 100% tax on foreign home buyers: what actually happened
- A room to study in: what changes for student housing in 2026/27
- Rents have been falling for five months (but Lisbon still hurts)
- Portugal on the European podium for rising house prices
- How much it costs to build a house in Portugal in 2026
- Renting in 2026: a race for a home that won't slow down
- Less red tape and a state guarantee: the plan to unblock homes
- 6% VAT on housing works: what changes if you build or renovate
- Rents are finally easing: what's really going on
- Bank valuations for homes hit a new record: 2,208 euros per metre
- House prices keep climbing as 2026 gets going
- Prices sky-high, but selling less: the housing market cooling off
- Foreign buyers are purchasing fewer and fewer homes in Portugal
- Older homes are rising faster than new ones: the widening gap
- Lisbon, the least affordable European capital on an average salary
- Portuguese homes hit a new record: average price tops €262,000
- Renters can deduct more on their income tax this year
- IMT Jovem in 2026: full exemption on homes up to 330,000 euros
- Rising Euribor squeezes Portugal's mortgage holders again
- Prices slow for the first time since 2024 as sales fall
- House prices jump 10.2% to a record €3,142/m²
- Penafiel bets on collaborative housing: 2.7 million to grow old with company
- Buying a home in Portugal: the real bill is well above the sticker price
- Housing: DBRS thinks the price surge will slow — and explains why
- Rents: the new median is 9.46 euros per square metre — and now you can see it street by street
- The price map: where a home costs a fortune (and where it doesn't)
- Homes: Fitch sees another 15% in 2026. Blame supply
- The US is about to cap how many homes big investors can buy. What about us?
- Government promises a new rental framework
- House prices will keep rising in 2026 — just more slowly
- 24 applicants per home: the rental market is in combat mode
- Houses at record highs: it's not mainly the interest rates
- "Moderate" rent: what changes for tenants and landlords
- Prices up, sales down: the 2026 housing puzzle
- Portuguese house prices hit a new record — and in 157 municipalities they more than doubled
- Rates up, prices up: 2026's double squeeze on buyers
- Homes in Portugal: after a record 2025, 2026 gives no breaks