Fátima Perdigão has been a consistent, and indefatigable part of Portugal’s property landscape for 35 years. Chris Graeme looks back at a career that was not always easy. Fátima Perdigão is one [...]
Developer Jeffrey E. Levine is an extraordinarily successful entrepreneur in New York, one of the most difficult and competitive real estate markets in the world. He started with nothing and [...]
CRYPTOCURRENCIES ARE AN INCREASINGLY COMMON MEANS OF CARRYING OUT TRANSACTIONS QUICKLY, SECURELY AND AT REDUCED COSTS, WITHOUT THE INTERVENTION OF ANY INTERMEDIARY ENTITIES. ESSENTIAL BUSINESS [...]
The former minister of State for the Economy and Digital Transition, Pedro Siza Vieira explained why Portugal was the place for investors in his opening address to the Portugal Real Estate [...]
Quinta do Lago, one of the loveliest golf, sports and lifestyle resorts in the Algarve, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Essential Business talks to founder André Jordan, who reminisces [...]
British royalty has not always been kind to Portugal over the 636 years that England (and later the United Kingdom) and Portugal have enjoyed what still is the longest unbroken treaty in the [...]
WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR CAREER YOU CAN’T LEAVE THINGS TO CHANCE OR FORTUNE. STRATEGY AND NETWORKING ARE VITAL SAYS SUSANA MIRANDA OF THE SM GROUP An old Portuguese saying has it that we [...]
The Altis Hotels Group, with its flagship Altis Grand Hotel in Lisbon, has represented comfort, quality and hospitality since 1973 when it was founded by entrepreneur Fernando Martins. Still a [...]
Since the transition of power from José Eduardo dos Santos to João Lourenço in 2017, Angola’s economic policy has shifted towards Neo-Thatcherism in a bid to diversify the economy away from [...]
Essential went in search of the flavours inspired by Portugality and the Portuguese Discoveries and found them in the charming medieval town of Amarante. Text: Chris Graeme Photos: supplied It is [...]