Housing market trends, real estate prices, rental policies, and property news in Portugal.
The Government and the PSD, Chega, IL and CDS-PP MPs declare 1,039 properties worth over 55 million euros, Público reports. Owning property is legal; here is what officeholders must disclose and what the MPs' statute says about voting with an interest.
About 300 people and more than 50 tents stayed in Porto's Praça D. João I overnight, and several hundred in Rossio, past the 00:30 legal limit. No police clearance was reported. The housing minister praised Porto's mayor; the PCP attacked the rental bill.
Government Bill 103 passed its general vote on 30 September with Chega abstaining and now sits in committee. Nothing changes until a final vote, a decree-law and two presidential signatures. What the PSD promised Chega, and what the bill would let the Government change.
The CGTP marches in Porto and Coimbra at 10:30 and in Lisbon at 14:30 today, demanding pay rises of at least 15 percent. Housing movements gather in Porto, Lisbon and Faro the same day. Times, routes and demands.
A law backdated to 2009 means works in urban rehabilitation areas needed no approved operation plan to get 6 percent VAT. Builders can refund the extra 17 points by credit note, but only within four years and if the area had not lapsed.
A Bank of Portugal study of about 300 councils from 2017 to 2024 finds extra demand feeds into prices almost twice as much as rents, hits hardest where building is slow, and concludes affordability cannot be fixed by demand-side policies alone.
A new ordinance sets the coefficients that raise a property's purchase price before capital gains tax is worked out on 2026 sales. A home bought in 2010 now carries 1.31, up from 1.28. Here is how the correction and the 50 percent rule work.
