Inflation

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is reigniting concerns among the CEOs of Portugal’s leading companies as they watch the effects of the crisis unfold on stock markets, the energy [...]

Construction costs for new housing registered a year-on-year increase of 4% in December and a rise of 0.9 percentage points (p.p.) compared to the previous month, according to data from the New [...]

Construction costs on new housing saw a like-for-like increase of 3.8% but a fall of 0.9% on July according to data from the index of New Housing Construction Costs (ICCHN), published by [...]

Urban building rents are likely to rise by up to 2.2% next year according to inflation data published on Wednesday. Although the annual rent coefficient update is set and based on the average [...]

Building houses in Portugal is getting increasingly expensive with costs up 3.8% YoY and 3.2% on February. Portugal’s National Statistics Institute (INE) estimates that the costs of building new [...]

Between January 2011 and December 2023 house prices in Greater Lisbon and the Metropolitan Area of Porto doubled. In this period house prices continued to skyrocket, except during a brief [...]

The costs of new build construction in Portugal went up 1.9% overall in January like-for-like on 2022. This percentage represents an increase of 1.2% on December 2023 while the price of building [...]

The paper maker Altri has announced an increase in he price of paper paste starting in March. The decision was made after the Brazilian paper company Suzano announced an US$ 80 per tonne on sales [...]

Altice Portugal’s Meo, NOS and Vodafone are to increase their prices for consumers from February 1, 2024, according to news source ECO. The telecommunication operators say they are increasing [...]

Portugal saw the highest increase in agricultural produce prices in the EU in the second quarter of 2023 with prices up 22% compared to an average 2% price hike in the rest of the EU. This is [...]