General Daily Briefing: Sunday, 1 November 2026
Paying IMI Property Tax in Portugal
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Good morning. Here is your Sunday briefing for 1 November 2026, All Saints' Day: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, immigrants and anyone keeping an eye on the country, below this week's featured guide.
- Housing protests: police removed the housing camps from Lisbon's Rossio and Porto's Praça D. João I before dawn, the third clearance since 20 October; organisers report at least 10 detained in Lisbon and 38 hurt in Porto.
- Mortgages: variable-rate home loans reviewed in November get dearer, by about 89 euros a month on a typical 12-month Euribor loan on our own arithmetic.
- Housing policy: the annual housing report the law has required since 2019 is finished, the ministry says, but Parliament still has not received it, 16 months after the deadline.
- Health: the hospital in São João da Madeira is run from today by the local Misericórdia under a 10-year, 13.85 million euro a year agreement, and stays in the SNS.
- Education: the teachers' federation Fenprof has complained to the Ombudsman that the Government approved the new teacher hiring system before the compulsory final round of talks.
- Energy: Portugal's Carriço gas store goes into winter about 95 percent full, far above the EU's 75 percent, while regulated gas bills have been 6.4 percent higher since 1 October.
Police Clear the Housing Camps Again
Riot police moved on the housing protest camps in Lisbon's Rossio and Porto's Praça D. João I at about 04:30 on Sunday, after warning that staying was a crime of disobedience. Organisers count at least 10 detained and six injured in Lisbon, and 38 injured and seven detained in Porto, where a CMTV camera operator was struck by a baton. The PSP had not published its own figures by early morning.
November Mortgage Reviews Cost More
Mortgages reviewed this month are repriced on October's Euribor averages, and on our own arithmetic a 150,000 euro, 30-year loan with a 1 percent spread pays about 89 euros a month more on the 12-month index. Six-month loans, the most common, go up by about 44 euros and three-month loans by about 18. The early repayment fee waiver ended in December 2025.
The Housing Report Parliament Has Not Seen
The Housing Framework Law requires the Government to give Parliament a report every year on the state of the right to housing. Público reports that the first one, covering 2024, is finished but still has no delivery date, 16 months after the June 2025 deadline. The 2025 report, due this June, is also overdue.
São João da Madeira's Hospital Changes Hands
From today the Santa Casa da Misericórdia runs the hospital in São João da Madeira, which stays in the SNS under a 10-year cooperation agreement. The State pays 13.85 million euros a year for 50,000 consultations, 4,000 day operations and a basic emergency service. A doctors' union says the benefits and staffing have not been explained.
Fenprof Goes to the Ombudsman
Teachers' federation Fenprof has asked the Ombudsman to examine how the Government approved its new hiring system, saying the decree passed on 30 July before compulsory supplementary talks on 6 August. The system, with a daily contest for temporary posts, starts in 2027/2028. The Ombudsman can recommend but cannot annul the decree.
A Nearly Full Gas Store for Winter
Portugal's underground gas store at Carriço was 95.5 percent full on its last confirmed day, against 74.7 percent across the EU, according to the AGSI+ transparency platform. The store is small, so the Sines LNG terminal, which brought in about 95 percent of Portugal's gas in 2025, does most of the work. Regulated household prices rose 6.4 percent on 1 October.
Also published since yesterday's briefing
- The Lisboa Brief, Week of 31 October 2026: The Rossio Cleared Again, New Money for the Red Line, and a Barrier for Airport Taxis Read →
- Algarve's Two Landfills Near Full as Government Commissions an 11-Month Study on Incineration or Sorting Plants Read →
- Pigment Fragments Dug Up at Penascosa Push Human Presence in the Côa Valley Past 27,000 Years and Hint Its Engravers Also Painted Read →
- PSD and CDS Table a Budget Change So No Parish Gets Less Money in 2027, as Parish Councils Decide on Monday Whether to Close on 4 November Read →
- Methadone Treatment Moves Into Pharmacies in Seven Algarve and Alentejo Municipalities From 1 November Read →
- Portugal Shifts VAT on Fuel to the Buyer to Choke Off Import Fraud, but Seguro Says the Rule Cannot Apply Until the EU Agrees Read →
- Thousands Rally for Housing in Lisbon and Porto as the Ombudsman's Monitors Watch the Rossio Tents Standoff Read →
- Albufeira's Mayor Moves to Embargo the Algarve Desalination Plant, Two Days After Sitting In on the Water Company's Board Read →
- Portugal Has Finished Only About Two in Three of the New Homes It Licensed in Seven Years, Leaving Some 88,000 Still Off the Market Read →
- Amadora's First Reduced-Rent Flats Go to 56 Tenants at an Average of 463 Euros a Month, in a Prefabricated Timber Block Paid for by the PRR Read →
- Fire Station Sirens Will Sound Together in Lisbon at 09:40 on Sunday, the Minute the 1755 Earthquake Began Read →
