Housing

The Portuguese government announced this week that construction may be allowed on rural land providing municipal councils involved do not object. The decision announced by the Council of [...]

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 [...]

Almost a year after the ‘green light’ was given by Portuguese MPs, an Emergency Housing Fund remains unimplemented. The proposal to amend the State Budget for 2024 (OE2024) provides for the use [...]

Portugal’s government has pledged to embark on a programme of building affordable housing for rent at controlled building costs. And so it was fitting and timely that the Secretary of State for [...]

The average price of family properties sold in Portugal rose by 6.6% in the second quarter, compared to the first three months of the year and the same period in 2023, concludes Portugal’s [...]

Text: Chris Graeme Photo: ICPT Fernando Bento Portugal could solve its chronic housing problem if it had earmarked more funding from the Recovery and Resilience Fund and reached agreements with [...]

The government has authorised the Housing and Urban Rehabilitation Institute (IHRU) to invest €2.011Bn under its 1st Law — Support Program for Access to Housing, in order to help alleviate the [...]

The Portuguese government will more than double the public offer of housing, compared to plans from the previous socialist government led by António Costa, on the back of the Recovery and [...]

Portugal’s construction, engineers, architects and economists associations have joined forces with 14 of the country’s leading construction companies to form a Construction Foundation. The [...]

The cost of building new homes in Portugal increased 3.4% in May in like-for-like terms on the same month in 2023, +0.1% more than in April according to the National Statistics Institute. (INE) [...]