Affordable Housing

Portugal’s parliament approved overall a housing package on Friday aimed at alleviating the country’s chronic housing shortage and accessibility for the middle classes, particularly the young. It [...]

Portugal’s new governor of its central bank, after saying he wouldn’t’ be expressing political opinions, did exactly that in his first public speech since taking office on Friday last week. [...]

The European Investment Bank is to finance the construction of 12,000 new affordable homes through a €1.3Bn credit line. The announcement was made this week by the Prime Minister, Luís [...]

Building and selling affordable housing isn’t financially viable for private developers according to an interview by ECO with Patrícia Viana, a real estate lawyer and partner at law firm Abreu. [...]

Portugal’s government is running a serious risk of failing to meet its pledge to build nearly 60,000 new homes at affordable prices to help solve the country’s housing crisis unless its reduces [...]

Portugal’s government has pledged to embark on a programme of building affordable housing for rent at controlled building costs. And so it was fitting and timely that the Secretary of State for [...]

Building affordable homes for the Portuguese middle classes continues to be a back burner project for real estate developers because the government has not created sufficient conditions to make [...]