Housing market trends, real estate prices, rental policies, and property news in Portugal.
Lisbon's housing camp voted 163 to 6 to pitch tents on the Rossio again on Tuesday and to meet President Seguro. Porto protesters raised 14 tents after 00:30. The Council of State's official note made no mention of the protests.
The EU cohesion programme now holds 315 million euros for social housing, 256 million for affordable rent and 85 million for student and staff homes, and councils in the North, Centre, Alentejo and Algarve are already applying.
Applicants found eligible for a Vale Eficiência who never received one can claim 1,300 euros plus VAT per voucher for windows, heat pumps or solar panels. The Environmental Fund emailed them on 30 October; confirmations open on 23 November.
Because a Lisbon judge refused to apply part of the 1974 protest law on constitutional grounds, prosecutors must appeal to the Constitutional Court. What the judges can decide, why one ruling would not scrap the 00:30 rule, and Monday's other developments.
The average rate on new housing loans rose for a sixth month to 3.06 percent in September, Bank of Portugal data show, while new term deposits paid 1.82 percent after an eighth rise. Mixed-rate loans now make up 85.6 percent of new lending.
Lisbon's administrative court says the 1974 law's 00:30 limit on protests is not absolute and orders police not to remove one protester's tent on the Rossio until the final 2027 budget vote, on conditions. It did not legalise the wider camp.
President Seguro's advisory Council of State meets at 15:00 today at Belém on social cohesion, after a third police clearance of the housing camps. In Porto the tents stayed up overnight, and 13 people detained on Sunday go before judges.
