Practical guides and stories for expats living in or moving to Portugal.
Portugal's housing market broke every record in the book last year. According to figures released by INE (Statistics Portugal) on Monday, residential property transactions reached a staggering 41.2 billion euros in 2025 — a 21.7 percent jump...
A new study finds that private health insurance increases the probability of visiting a private GP by 39 percentage points, while lacking an SNS doctor raises it by just 6 points.
Portugal's parliament has spent more than a year unable to fill three vacant seats on the Constitutional Court, a deadlock that now threatens to derail the 2027 state budget and expose the fragility of the country's post-revolution political...
Portugal's parliament voted on Friday to advance three bills that would dismantle the country's 2018 gender identity law, marking what rights organisations call the first rollback of acquired civil liberties in Portuguese democratic history. The...
Processing times for Portugal's Golden Visa programme have reached an unprecedented 39.6 months, with more than 20,000 applicants stuck in an administrative backlog that shows no signs of clearing quickly, according to the latest data from...
The European Central Bank held its benchmark interest rates unchanged on Thursday but delivered a notably hawkish message, warning that persistent inflationary pressures driven by the Middle East energy crisis could force policymakers to consider...
Portugal's Tax and Customs Authority (AT) has issued an urgent warning about fraudulent email and SMS campaigns targeting taxpayers during the current IRS filing period. The scams impersonate official tax communications, demanding payments for...
