Real estate investment

Red tape and bureaucracy can be an impediment to any foreigner who lives in Portugal and barely knows the language.

If you are looking for a property in Portugal, sometimes it is not easy to find the right dream house or the perfect holiday home. There are many factors to consider when choosing a home, from the number of rooms to the balcony to the garage parking space – every detail counts.

The effects of the real estate pressure currently being experienced in Lisbon are beginning to spread to the other side of the Tagus River.

The real estate segment focussed on offices in Europe, especially the development of greenfield projects and/or the rehabilitation of old buildings, continues to offer interesting investment opportunities both for investors with a core profile and for investors with a value-added profile in Europe.

House prices in Portugal will continue to rise, albeit at a slower pace than in recent years, following the general trend in Europe, according to forecasts by Standard & Poor's (S&P).

After the regeneration of the historical centre comes the Alta de Lisboa. This is the area of the Portuguese capital that will receive more than 500 new apartments in the coming years, in an investment totalling around 200 million euro.

If there was ever a time when Setúbal was called "ugly" or "dirty", idealista/news can now affirm that this area on the South Bank of the Tagus is no longer so. Setúbal has become a city which is attracting large numbers of investors from Portugal and abroad.

Buying a home is getting more and more expensive, but property sales keep going up year after year; in 2018, the number of transactions grew between 15% and 20%, which means that about 180,000 properties were sold, 25,000 more than the previous year and an average of 500 per day.

A quinta in Portugal is a type of property like a manor that was originally used as a farmhouse. Today, many of these traditional Portuguese houses have been converted into luxury mansions and villas, complete with everything the discerning buyer needs to live in the lap of luxury in Portugal.

The construction of new buildings in Portugal is growing at a rapid pace.

Good news for the Portuguese real estate market, which will continue to live good (or even better) times in 2019.

The Muda Reserve project, located in the village of Muda, near Comporta on the Alentejo coast, is coming to life. The commercialisation of the 42 quintas built in the village will start soon, says the developer Vanguard Properties.