Local Accommodation

Local Accommodation in Portugal is attracting increasing numbers of Portuguese holidaymakers according to data from LovelyStay, a national leader in local accommodation management. Domestic [...]

New local accommodation guest houses have been banned in 19 Lisbon neighbourhoods and 8 parishes with a complete ban on new establishments in the historic downtown area of the capital. According [...]

Condominium residents or the associations that represent them will lose the discretionary power that they currently have that allows them, provided that they had the support of two-thirds of the [...]

Portugal achieved a new record in the number of tourists and tourism-related revenues in 2023, but the number of overnight stays fell. According to the business daily Negócios, a reduction in the [...]

The deadline for the owners of properties rented to tourists for local accommodation ended on Thursday, December 13 after an extension from December 7 to give landlords a chance to get their [...]

Around 30% of local accommodation licences failed to make the December 13 deadline to deliver a proof of activity to city councils and have now had their licenses automatically cancelled. Of the [...]

Around 75% of local accommodation licences in Lisbon are at risk of being cancelled. In Porto this percentage is 43%. As the ‘More Housing’ programme comes into force, property owners with active [...]

The majority of owners of properties rented out to tourists say they are not interested in renting out their apartments to long term tenants to help ease Portugal’s struggling rental market. It [...]

A Portuguese hotel and hospitality association has again called on the Portuguese government to backtrack on changes and measures contained in its ‘More Housing’ programme that it says is [...]

The Portuguese tax authorities are preparing a tax sweep on Local Accommodation properties nationwide, the timing of which, given the government ‘s ‘More Housing’ clampdown on [...]