Housing market trends, real estate prices, rental policies, and property news in Portugal.
Amadora has handed over the keys to 48 PRR-funded flats at Cerrado da Mira, its first let at reduced rents set so that no household spends more than 35 percent of its income on rent. Contracts run five years.
INE data show 247,600 homes licensed in seven years and 159,465 completed. Much of the gap is homes still being built, as licences have more than tripled since 2016, but builders also cite labour, financing and stalled projects.
Thousands marched in Lisbon and Porto on Saturday, a week after the camps were cleared. The Ombudsman's torture-prevention team was present, and by early evening the question was whether tents would go up again for the night.
The state housing institute will fund and build 40 affordable rental homes at Quinta da Braguinha in Bragança, where a one-bedroom flat now rents for about 600 euros. Rents and application rules are not yet published; here is how IHRU homes are allocated.
Young buyers signed about 8,700 State-guaranteed home loans worth almost 2.0 billion euros between July and September, the Bank of Portugal says: 31.6 percent of all new permanent-home mortgages and 35.8 percent of the money lent.
Lisbon's council has voted to redraw its urban rehabilitation area from 1 January 2027, adding districts built up since 2012. Livre calls it a blank cheque for 6,450 hectares. What ARU status can mean for owners, and what the municipal assembly still has to do.
Lisbon City Council approved a deal with developer SGAL that keeps plots worth 46 million euros in the Alta de Lisboa in public hands for affordable housing. No number of homes or timetable is set yet; a 14-home affordable rent draw in Benfica closes on 5 November.
