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The city of Portugal has distributed 105 keys to citizens as part of a strategic public housing recovery plan aimed at addressing affordability challenges.
The Vila Nova de Gaia City Council has declined to join opposition councillors in a collective effort to lobby the Portuguese Environment Agency regarding the reduction of demolitions and the placement of a high-speed rail station.
An analytical overview of the property market in Porto, highlighting its leading position in local accommodation density.
Portuguese technology gave birth to the Casas em Movimento project in Matosinhos. Viana do Castelo and Lisbon are the next destinations.
The Mayor of Matosinhos criticises the Government for funding only 60% of the construction and renovation of housing in the municipality, concluding that several councils cannot afford the remaining 40%.
The city council approved two agreements with the IHRU: 65 rehabilitated housing units across 10 parishes and 31 acquired in Grijó and Mafamude, under a controlled rent scheme.
The construction of housing using cooperatives is only not possible due to “exclusively a lack of political will,” and it called for a “national measure” to make it happen.
The municipality has completed 47 projects worth €130 million. Across the municipality, a total of approximately €704 million has been secured by public and private entities.
Porto City Council has identified land where housing could be built for residents of the expropriated areas. In dialogue with the concessionaire, the best model for the operation is being studied.
The first section of the high-speed rail line has been approved by the APA, but there is no start date for construction. Residents are distressed by the lack of answers. On the ground, the project captures the memories of a city on the verge of extinction.
Starting this Friday, Penafiel is the first municipality in the country to set the Municipal Urbanisation Fee (TMU) at the symbolic value of one euro for all urban development operations involving housing construction, the local authority announced. The measure aims to reduce the costs for those building their own homes and to encourage...
The homes of the eight families were purchased by a real estate company, which revealed that these families would have to leave at the end of their contracts. The City Council handled the 'emergency situation'.
A couple bought all the houses on a street in Vila Nova de Gaia, forcing tenants to leave. The City Council handed over keys to new homes to eight families.
It was a passion for the social aspect of architecture that guided the work of André Camelo, who transformed a compromised building in Fontainhas, Porto, into collective, social, and “playful” housing.
More than 30 families in the Fernão de Magalhães social housing neighbourhood in Porto may have to pay thousands of euros for building renovation works, budgeted at over one million.
The decision was made at condominium meetings, where a municipal company holds the majority of the votes.
The potential buyer projected the image of a serious person, whose husband owned a diamond business.
A report from the CCDR-N reveals that the problem is not a lack of houses, but a misalignment between supply and demand — and market saturation in the Porto Metropolitan Area.
House prices will continue to rise, but a 10% drop in transactions is expected in 2026, predicts Joana Resende, founder of Century 21 Arquitectos. The forecast is based on the persistent imbalance in the Portuguese real estate market, where demand remains strong despite a lack of supply. While there are signs of a slowdown—with the absorption period for new builds increasing from two to five months—inflationary pressure remains acute in urban areas around Porto, particularly in Gondomar, where average house prices have soared by 144% over the last decade. Developers are increasingly looking to the outskirts of the Porto Metropolitan Area, attracting both national and foreign investment, notably from Israel and India. Century 21 Arquitectos reported four million euros in revenue last year and expects 20% growth for the current year, with plans to expand further in northern Portugal by 2027.
Porto's historic centre is approaching a “saturation point” and the city council wants to implement public policies to balance the territory. A working group will study a governance model for the area.
The Vila Nova de Gaia local council will rehouse 10 families who were notified to vacate their homes. The properties were sold to a company and the lease agreements have come to an end.
The 13 houses on the street were purchased and low-income tenants were at risk of becoming homeless. The local authority does not rule out filing an injunction to gain room for manoeuvre.
With the first contracts ending on June 30th and no alternatives, low-income residents returned to the executive meeting after a month without answers from the local authority.
Porto City Council members have approved the seventh amendment to the contract for the Bairro do Aleixo land. 16 years later, Pedro Duarte wants an end to the deadlock, but the opposition has raised criticisms.
An investor bought all the houses in the neighbourhood and the lease agreements end next month. Residents say they have nowhere to go and accuse the City Council of failing to protect the neighbourhood.
Some residents are on a waiting list for public housing, but there is no immediate solution
Ten families in Vila Nova de Gaia are at risk of becoming homeless between this month and the next.
The first fight of a battle. This was how the residents of the Outeiro do Linho social housing neighbourhood in Valongo reacted to the news this Thursday, May 14, that the court had approved the injunction filed by residents to prevent the demolition of municipal housing. Following the decision, the inhabitants will no longer have to leave their homes by tomorrow, May 15.
A green area will be created and the private tower will be reduced from 21 to 15 floors. When construction proceeds, the supervised drug consumption room will have to be relocated again.
Elderly residents were being forced to move into shipping containers.
