New inheritance rules aim to speed up property sales

Friday, 24 July 2026AI summary

Parliament has approved new legislation allowing the government to create a special regime for undivided inheritances to reduce long-running legal disputes. Housing Minister Miguel Pinto Luz stated the measure aims to increase housing availability by allowing a single heir to initiate the sale of inherited property in specific cases.

Context & Explainers

Miguel Pinto Luz is Portugal's Minister of Infrastructure. On Feb 24, 2026 he told journalists in Viseu that works on the A1 motorway in the Coimbra area would be fully completed and traffic restored to four lanes by the end of that week.