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Portugal's Tax Authority Confirms Non-Residents Cannot Claim Capital Gains Reinvestment Exemption When Selling Property

Portugal's Tax Authority Confirms Non-Residents Cannot Claim Capital Gains Reinvestment Exemption When Selling Property

If you are a Portuguese citizen living abroad or a foreign national who owns property in Portugal but is no longer tax resident there, a recent ruling from the Autoridade Tributaria (AT) has made one thing unmistakably clear: you cannot claim the...

Portugal's Housing Market Shatters All Records in 2025 With 41.2 Billion Euros in Sales, Even as Foreign Buyers Pull Back

Portugal's Housing Market Shatters All Records in 2025 With 41.2 Billion Euros in Sales, Even as Foreign Buyers Pull Back

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...

Private Health Insurance Is Reshaping How Portugal Gets Medical Care, New Study Finds

Private Health Insurance Is Reshaping How Portugal Gets Medical Care, New Study Finds

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.

Constitutional Court Deadlock Enters Second Year as Portugal's Political Consensus Fractures

Constitutional Court Deadlock Enters Second Year as Portugal's Political Consensus Fractures

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...