The Sacavém neighbourhood, worth more than 300 million euros, should go on sale in mid-2027 and be finished in 2035. Gaia Hills has 210 flats under way, and Matosinhos sold out in eight months.
Decree-Law 108/2026 applies from 1 October: prior notification no longer waits for a council check, licence decisions face 20 to 45 day deadlines with tacit approval, and property deeds must state whether a planning title exists.
The food hall beside São Bento station says the metro building site cost it sales, advertising money and its image. Metro do Porto blames its contractor, says access was never cut and argues that disruption from public works gives no automatic right to compensation.
The Integrar para a Construção programme pays a grant for four months of training and a work placement in trades from plumbing to plasterboard. Its second intake, planned for September, still has no date.
The men, aged 26 and 28, were buried five to six metres down on Monday afternoon. The second body was found late at night, and the labour inspectorate is now investigating how the trench gave way.
A Braga court admitted the injunction on 1 September, the same day the works restarted after eight months of archaeology. The mayor says he will pursue the association for the delay. What the judge actually did is narrower than the headlines suggest.
INE's August surveys put construction and public works confidence at 6.1, the highest since January 2002, on fuller order books and hiring plans. Consumer confidence fell to minus 20.1 after three months of gains, and trade and manufacturing both weakened.
