Rental market

Rental house prices in Portugal fell by 1.4% in February compared to the same month of the previous year. According to the idealista price index, renting a house cost €16.2 per square meter [...]

Families in Portugal are continuing to face increasing difficulties in paying the mortgages and rents on their homes. When it comes to rents in Funchal, the amount of income to pay for the home [...]

Lisbon is the fifth most expensive city in Europe in which to rent a house according to the UK Economist’s ‘Carrie Bradshaw Index’, an indicator that cross references average rental data with the [...]

The supply of rooms to rent in Portugal saw a significant increase of 79% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 according to a study by Idealista. The number of people [...]

The cost of renting a house or apartment in Portugal fell 1.9% on average in January like-for-like on 2024 in a downward trend seen over the last quarter of 2025. According to the idealista price [...]

New housing rental leases in Lisbon reached a plateau and remained stable in Lisbon according to the latest market study by Confidencial Imobiliário. Rental prices charged in new lease agreements [...]

The new 10% IRS tax that Portugal’s government aims to apply to income from renting buildings will now include all rental contracts for rents within the so-called moderate values, regardless of [...]

Portugal’s government has agreed a new IMT flat tax of 7.5%  on property for overseas residents who are not domiciled in the country for tax purposes. It is one element of what are certainly the [...]

The price of renting a house in Portugal’s rental market increased by 5.7% in October compared to the same month in 2024. And renting a house cost €17/m2 for the first time. In Lisbon that cost [...]

Portugal’s government has approved reducing VAT on construction to 6% and the creation of Build to Rent contracts with tax benefits. However, the government will put up property transfer tax or [...]