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Certidão Permanente de Registo Predial in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the IRN Predial Online One-Stop, the Multi-Property Batch Request, the Cartão de Cidadão / Chave Móvel Digital Authentication and the Conservatória-Free Issuance
The Certidão Permanente de Registo Predial is the single online-issued document that proves who owns a Portuguese property — and from May 2026 the IRN issues it in minutes through a Predial Online flow that handles urban, rural and mixed pr…
Condomínio (Homeowner Association) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Lei 8/2022 Framework, the Permilage Vote, the Annual Assembleia Geral, the 10% Fundo Comum de Reserva and the Acta as Executive Title for Quota Collection
Owning an apartment in Portugal puts you inside a condomínio under the propriedade horizontal regime — Código Civil articles 1414–1438-A, Decreto-Lei 268/94 and the Lei 8/2022 modernisation set the rules for the assembleia geral, the 10% Fu…
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- Outlook: Moody's Portugal Sovereign Review Released Tonight, Altri €0.25 Dividend Ex-Day Tuesday 26 May, Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June
Outlook: Moody's Portugal Sovereign Review Released Tonight, Altri €0.25 Dividend Ex-Day Tuesday 26 May, Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June
Outlook: Friday 22 May 2026 closes the week with the Moody's Portugal sovereign-rating review released in the evening — the A3 read broadly expected to hold and the JP Morgan consensus pegging a roughly 50% probability of an outlook upgrade from stable to positive; the move would align Moody's with DBRS (positive trend since Q4 2025), S&P (A+) and Fitch (A), sit two notches below the A1 high-grade gate and tighten the Bund-spread frame heading into the June ECB. Monday 26 May opens with the Altri €0.25 per share ordinary-dividend ex-day Tuesday and the cash payment Thursday 28 May, while Mota-Engil's €110 million sustainability-linked retail bond settles into Euronext Lisbon listing for the bond-market tape. Thursday 29 May books the Vista Alegre Atlantis delisting AGM through the €1.07 per share cash-out clock against the 5.24% free float — Visabeira's 84.76% block printing the squeeze-out trigger under Article 196 of the Código dos Valores Mobiliários — running in parallel with the live Visabeira Indústria mandatory tender offer for Martifer at €2.057 per share closing Wednesday 3 June after Optimize Investment Partners' 4% 'too-low' refusal lifted the bar for the 90% Article-194 squeeze-out trigger. The CP €504 million high-speed-train tender carries the public-investment beta into the 2 July bid-submission window with Q1 2027 signature, 2031 first delivery and 2032 service launch on the Porto–Lisboa corridor. The macroprudential overlay continues to anchor the listed-banking beta on the back of Banco de Portugal's 45% DSTI Wednesday 20 May cut, with BCP's Ageas / Fosun shareholder reshuffle (Belgian insurer eyeing a 5% capital slot, Chinese conglomerate mandating advisers on its €2.7 billion stake) framing the second-half rotation story into July.
