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Thousands have mobilised in Lisbon and Porto to protest escalating housing costs, establishing encampments in key public squares to demand the rehabilitation of vacant public buildings. Despite severe weather and police intervention, the popular assemblies continue to sustain the demonstrations, highlighting the deepening unaffordability crisis affecting youths and low-income earners.
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The parties today most committed to transforming the housing crisis into an indictment of the present had the opportunity to stop it in the past; instead, they gave up.
JN reveals data showing that rents have reached record values, with prices now exceeding €10 per square metre. Correio da Manhã highlights gaps in the Public Prosecutor's indictment regarding the case of the Luso-Brazilian twins.
The new scheme came into force on September 1st but remains unregulated, which is essential for its implementation.
This week, Ricardo Felner visited the Patuá restaurant, one of the pillars of Macanese cuisine in Lisbon. Unfortunately, Patuá will close in September due to the unsustainable increase in rents in Lisbon.
The European Commission acknowledges that short-term holiday rentals are contributing to the housing crisis, specifically highlighting Lisbon, where rental prices have increased by 103%.
During our search, we also found a landlord asking for 700 euros for a room without the right to a receipt.
With 50,000 candidates entering higher education - many of whom will move to Lisbon - average rents in the capital have increased by about 10%. In Porto, the price has increased by 20 euros.
Average rents in the capital increased by about 10%, now hovering around 550 euros, while in Porto they are around 450 euros.
The programme ensures maximum rent caps for housing, with an effort rate “never exceeding” 35%. Maximum values range from 400 to 1,125 euros, for T0 to T5 properties, respectively.
Only 12% of the 227,000 displaced and international students have access to student residences. Rents in Lisbon reach 93% of the minimum wage.
The unfreezing of old rents and easier eviction processes for non-payment in the rental market are measures “very important to restore confidence to landlords” and allow more properties to enter the housing market, argues the president of the Lisbon Landlords Association (ALP). According to Luís Menezes Leitão, frozen rents account for...
The rental market in Lisbon and Porto is showing signs of a sharp slowdown in prices, according to data from Confidencial Imobiliário.
The first Residents' Union in Lisbon will be presented to the public this Friday, an initiative by the association Habita! aimed at representing people living in spaces they do not own and could be evicted from at any time. Inspired by Spanish housing unions, the group seeks to include not only formal tenants but also those in informal housing, squatters, and those without rental contracts. The union aims to challenge the narrative of 'small landlords' by highlighting that many properties are owned by large-scale landlords profiting from the housing crisis, where rent-to-income ratios in Lisbon are reaching 80%. The union is currently organizing building-by-building resistance strategies and collaborating with similar groups in Porto.
Where the pressure is at its peak, in Lisbon and Porto, where rent devours entire salaries and the tenant is the perfect portrait of the furious voter that theory imagined, no left-wing anger was born.
Lisbon and Porto continue to lead the supply, accounting for about two-thirds of the total, both with growth in the order of 25%
An Imovirtual analysis of average housing prices between December 2025 and February 2026 reveals significant differences between Portuguese cities in both the rental and purchase markets. Cascais tops the list with an average rent of 2,400 euros per month and an average sale price of 1.35 million euros, making it the most expensive residential market in the country. Lisbon follows with an average rent of 1,800 euros and an average sale price of around 710,000 euros, though the capital saw a 2.7% drop in rents compared to the same period last year. The study highlights that while coastal and tourist areas face high demand and limited supply, inland cities like Bragança and Guarda remain more affordable. Sylvia Bozzo, marketing manager at Imovirtual, notes that while premium markets like Cascais remain strong, there is a growing geographic dispersion of demand as people seek alternatives outside the most pressured urban centres.
