Rent property

The next application period for the latest edition of the Porta 65 Jovem rental programme is coming up: it is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. on 16th April 2019 and end at 6 p.m. on 21st May 2019.

Renting a house in Portugal was 9.3% more expensive in 2018 than previous years, with the average cost per square metre for the whole country reaching 4.80 euro, which is 0.45 euro per square foot.

If you have a four-legged, or even two-legged, friend, you’ll probably want to bring them to Portugal with you to share your new life in the sun.

Do you live in a rented house? Then you should consider taking out a home contents insurance policy.

Portugal’s tourist accommodation business is booming, with short-term tourist lets becoming ever more profitable and popular.

Students are a genuine source of wealth for cities like London, Rotterdam and Milan.

Renting an apartment in Lisbon is more expensive than it was a year ago, but the rise in prices is slowing down. In the second quarter of the year, rental prices in the Portuguese capital rose by 1.8% over the previous quarter and by 17% in counterpart terms.

If you’re one of the thousands of students participating in the Erasmus programme in Portugal in 2018, now is the time to start looking for a home in the country where you have decided to live this new adventure.

Thirty years old, married or in a common-law union, with university-level education.

Many banks ask for a guarantee when granting a loan for the purchase of a house, but there are also certain landlords who ask for one in new leasing contracts.

Your Erasmus exchange is fast approaching, you still have no idea where you’re going to live and you’re getting worried.

London’s got Soho, Lisbon has Príncipe Real. The most LGBTI-friendly district of the Portuguese capital attracts restaurants, shops and entertainment venues as well as residents and investors.

To buy or to rent, that is the question. The answer to this question is in line with an existing reality in Portugal, as people in Portugal prefer to be owners of their properties rather than tenants.

Too much demand, too little supply. There are fewer and fewer homes available for rent in Lisbon, a situation that is leading potential tenants to offer 12 months of rent to secure a home.

Anyone who has looked for a rental home at least once in their lives knows that the best deals should be snapped up as soon as they appear.

When planning to rent out a property, the first thing to be done is to improve it with some changes to make it more attractive when put on the market.

Doubting about whether to buy or rent is very common. On one hand, buying a home in Portugal requires a great economic effort, but on the other hand, spending your entire life paying the rent on a house that will never be yours may not be the best option. So how do you decide?

The limitations of the supply of real estate and the increase in prices in the centres of the main cities are pushing many Portuguese families to a life in the outskirts. This is a trend that, according to the real estate agency Century 21, is here to stay.

Neither rent nor buy. That’s the reality for young people in Portugal, who are a long way off being able to afford a property at the current house prices.

To be or not to be a tenant or a homeowner? That is the question. In Portugal, be a homeowner. In the rest of the world? The same, according to the results of this study by RentCafé. The data shows that just 25.2% of Portuguese people choose to rent.

Whether you’re looking at flats, villas or holiday homes, there’s always the decision of whether to buy or rent, but how do you know which is best? It’s worth taking the following into account... Cost of a mortgage vs.