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President Seguro Promulgates the Habitação Fiscal Package on Tuesday 12 May — 10% IRS Cap on Rents Up to €2,300, 6% IVA on Moderate-Price Construction and a First-Buyer IMT Exemption Hold Through 31 December 2029

President Seguro Promulgates the Habitação Fiscal Package on Tuesday 12 May — 10% IRS Cap on Rents Up to €2,300, 6% IVA on Moderate-Price Construction and a First-Buyer IMT Exemption Hold Through 31 December 2029

President António José Seguro promulgated the Government's housing fiscal package on Tuesday 12 May 2026, completing the legislative cycle that began with Law 9-A/2026 — the parliamentary authorisation passed on 6 March — and the Council of...
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Registering an Alojamento Local in Portugal in 2026 — A Guide to the Balcão Único Comunicação Prévia, the Four Modalidades, the 60-or-90-Day Câmara Window, the Decreto-Lei 76/2024 Mais Habitação Rollback and the EU Regulation 2024/1028 May Rollout

Registering an Alojamento Local in Portugal in 2026 — A Guide to the Balcão Único Comunicação Prévia, the Four Modalidades, the 60-or-90-Day Câmara Window, the Decreto-Lei 76/2024 Mais Habitação Rollback and the EU Regulation 2024/1028 May Rollout

Registering an Alojamento Local in Portugal in 2026 — the RNAL comunicação prévia, the Balcão Único Eletrónico, the four modalidades, the 60-or-90-day câmara window, the Decreto-Lei 76/2024 reset of Mais Habitação, and the EU Regulation 2024/1028 platform data-sharing layer landing in May.
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Pinto Luz's Modular Construction Acordo-Quadro Lines Up Against AICCOPN's +26% Cement Print While Public Tenders Contract 26% — Portugal's Housing Supply Side Splits Into a Two-Speed Pipeline With Idealista Reading Stock Down 14%

Pinto Luz's Modular Construction Acordo-Quadro Lines Up Against AICCOPN's +26% Cement Print While Public Tenders Contract 26% — Portugal's Housing Supply Side Splits Into a Two-Speed Pipeline With Idealista Reading Stock Down 14%

Four data points from this week describe the same Portuguese housing-supply crisis from four different angles. Idealista's Q1 2026 housing-stock read printed a 14% national contraction in active listings , with Faro -38%, Porto -25% and Lisbon -13%....
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Miguel Pinto Luz Prepares a Modular Construction Acordo-Quadro for Câmaras Municipais After His Jornal de Negócios Podcast on Wednesday 13 May — Industrialised-Building Diploma Anchors the Government's Habitação Pipeline

Miguel Pinto Luz Prepares a Modular Construction Acordo-Quadro for Câmaras Municipais After His Jornal de Negócios Podcast on Wednesday 13 May — Industrialised-Building Diploma Anchors the Government's Habitação Pipeline

Infrastructure Minister Pinto Luz confirmed on a Jornal de Negócios podcast that an acordo-quadro for modular construction lands at the Conselho de Ministros within weeks. The framework opens municipal tenders to industrialised builders alongside the October 2025 design-build reform.
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INE Reads New-Housing Construction Costs Up 5.8% in March 2026 — Labour Component Climbs 8.2% Against a 3.7% Materials Print, the Wedge Widens 1.0 Percentage Points From February and the Index Now Sits 30%-Plus Above the 2021 Base

INE Reads New-Housing Construction Costs Up 5.8% in March 2026 — Labour Component Climbs 8.2% Against a 3.7% Materials Print, the Wedge Widens 1.0 Percentage Points From February and the Index Now Sits 30%-Plus Above the 2021 Base

INE reads the Construction Cost Index for new housing at +5.8% year-on-year in March 2026 — labour climbs 8.2%, materials 3.7%, and the headline wedge widens 1.0pp from February. The labour-cost trajectory is the structural read inside Portugal's housing-affordability calculus.
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