Loulé has opened a consultation to rent homes from owners, with offers due by 22 November, and extended its calls to buy homes and land for 50 or more homes. Who can offer, how offers are scored, and how the council pays.
INE's local house price statistics put the national median at 2,264 euros per square metre in the year to June 2026, up 17.7 percent. Almost half of measured municipalities rose more than 20 percent; Lisbon, Cascais, Oeiras and Loulé are the dearest.
A ministers' letter answering ANA's July report says the duty to provide land for the Luís de Camões airport does not make the state liable for expropriations, and clean-up costs are up for negotiation. ANA disagrees.
A decree-law approved on 22 October under a parliamentary authorisation lets any heir ask a court to sell an inherited home at market value after two years, and cuts the time to accept an inheritance from ten years to two. It still needs promulgation.
A Treasury order published on 20 October tops up the state bank's share of the guarantee that lets under-35s borrow the full price of a first home. Público says less than 70 million euros of the 2,300 million ceiling is left to allocate.
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.
