Municipal councils

A public transport project to link Cascais and Oeiras by rail will cost an estimated €100 million. The project is to be handed to the Ministry of Infrastructures on February 28 according to the [...]

The former deputy mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia Town Council, Patrocínio Azevedo has denied that he received “a single red cent” from lawyer João Lopes to get real estate projects fast-tracked [...]

The Government has insisted that Portugal’s new land law will lower the price of new houses in metropolitan areas and district capitals by 20%, setting values below those recorded in the country [...]

Portugal’s Minister who represents territorial cohesion, Manuel Castro Almeida says the government is to “increase the supply of land” to build affordable homes for Portugal’s middle classes. On [...]

The tax levied on tourists by hotels and accommodation raised €21.4 million of which €13.6 million was from Lisbon. The amounts represent a 61% increase like-for-like on 2022 while they revenues [...]

Portugal’s Finance Minister Fernando Medina has flatly denied that he has been made a legal suspect by Portugal’s Public Ministry or is being investigated on suspicions, voiced by CNN, of a [...]

Some projects in Lisbon are taking five years or more to receive planning permission from Lisbon City Council. A report by Jornal Económico tells of developers which are exasperated over delays [...]

Since Lisbon’s Mayor Carlos Moedas took office in September 2022 after winning an unlikely victory, he decided that he would serve the people, listening to their problems, and get things done. So [...]

Lisbon City Councillors have opposed its Mayor, Carlos Moedas over a project for a new five-star hotel in the city centre. The person behind the project is the Angolan tycoon Isabel dos Santos, [...]