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.
An order in today's Diário da República lets AVAN Norte take immediate possession of about 125 hectares for the high-speed line's third sub-section. Here is what owners in Ovar and Feira are entitled to, from the site survey to the compensation offer.
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.
Banks valued homes they were asked to finance at a median 2,278 euros per square metre in September, up 14.2 percent in a year, INE says. The figures by region and flat size, and why the appraisal, not the price, can decide how much you borrow.
A September ruling that the method used to value wind parks for IMI is unconstitutional now hangs over 266 council lawsuits against dam and wind operators, with 33.8 million euros at stake in the North alone.
Councils collected 2,146.7 million euros in IMT in 2025, against 583 million in 2015, budget figures show, as house prices rose about 2.6 times. ECO counts almost 17 billion euros from IMT and stamp duty over ten years. What each tax costs a buyer.
A home's taxable value does not fall on its own as the building ages, so some owners pay more IMI than a new valuation would give. DECO PROteste advises a simulation first: a revaluation can also raise the bill, and it locks in for three years.
