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Almost one in five homes with rents of up to €750 were rented in less than a day at the beginning of this year.

Lisbon City Council has already launched the 28th Competition of the Affordable Rent Program, which includes 101 municipal houses. 

The costs of building new homes increased by 3.8% in March, compared to the same month in 2024, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). 

At the beginning of 2025, the stock of rooms to rent registered an increase of 91% compared to the end of last year (when the annual increase was 56%), reveals analysis by idealista. But despite there being more rooms to rent, prices have risen 4% in a year.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation for an initial collection of opinions on the European Plan for Affordable Housing to combat the crisis in the sector.

In one year, in 2024 compared to 2023, the average real salary (after discounting the effects of inflation) rose by €182, from €1,261 gross to €1,443 gross. 

High demand, together with the profitability rates that hotels generate for investors in relation to other markets, has been reflected in the supply of properties with tourist licenses for sale in Portugal, which registered a 28% drop in the last year. 

Portugal has been ranked as the top destination in Europe to retire to and the second in the world according to the latest Annual Global Retirement Index from International Living.

A mega real estate project in Lisbon that has been on hold for years is now up for sale. 

Irish interest in moving to Portugal has increased by 33% in the past year. 

A decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to declare Malta’s ‘Golden Passport’ illegal will have no impact on Portugal’s hugely popular, but significantly different, Golden Visa.

Amnesty International has once again drawn attention to the housing crisis in Portugal, highlighting in its 2024-2025 annual report that access to affordable housing continues to be a serious and persistent problem in the country.

Hilton has announced that its cosmopolitan lifestyle brand, Tempo by Hilton, will debut in Portugal following a management agreement with Kronos Real Estate Group.

Beja has seen rents rise again after sharp falls, while Portalegre remains the most economical option for buying a house in the south of Portugal.

Foreigners continue to have a significant presence in the search for luxury homes in Portugal, with British and North Americans leading the way.

The cheapest houses for sale of all are located in the country's interior municipalities, where it is possible to purchase a 100 square metre (m2) house for less than €30,000.

The median value of bank appraisals for housing was set at 1,847 euros per square metre (m2) in March, an increase of 16.9% compared to the same month last year and 37 euros more (2.0%) than in February.

The supply of housing on the rental market increased by 49% between the beginning of 2025 and the same period in 2024, according to data analysis by idealista. 

Savills’ latest Luxury Report reveals that the luxury retail market across the world continued to see strong growth in prime rents through 2024. 

House prices accelerated in 19 of the 24 municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, with Funchal and Gondomar leading the increases in the last quarter of last year, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

The stock of Portuguese housing available for sale in the first quarter of 2025 fell by 4%, compared to what was available in the same period in 2024, according to data analysed by idealista.

Foreigners are buying more homes in Spain and for increasingly higher prices. The annual growth in transactions carried out by Portuguese people (13.3%) stands out, reaching the highest number since 2016.

Award-winning premium estate agency Fine & Country Portugal is proudly celebrating ten years of dedicated service and success in the highly sought-after Comporta region

During the 1st quarter of 2025, house sales prices in mainland Portugal increased by 6.6% compared to the end of 2024, registering the highest quarterly increase since 2007.