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More international buyers head to Portugal than ever before
Portugal continues to attract large numbers of international buyers, with record investment figures dwarfing those seen elsewhere in southern Europe.Read more...
Nine out of ten holidays are within Portugal
Find homes in Portugal via our property portal. With so many property buyers looking to help finance their ownership with rentals, new figures released this week offer encouragement. More people are travelling within Portugal and they are staying in rented accommodation for longer. It is a vital market to tap into. Last year saw a significant rise in travel by residents of Portugal. The National Statistics Institute of Portugal, INE, found that in the fourth quarter of 2015, covering the start of October to the end of December, the resident population of Portugal made 4.16 million tourist tripRead more...
“Retired foreigners” blocking oil exploitation
Find homes in Algarve via our property portal. With licenses being issued for oil and gas exploration off the coast of the Algarve, the war of words between campaigners is warming up. It’s our oil, says the government. It’s our homes and future, say residents, many of them from overseas. A former government minister has slammed “the Algarve’s retired foreigners” for trying to block oil exploration in the seabed below the Atlantic Ocean close to the Algarve. Former Environment Minister Jorge Moreira da Silva told a government committee that the foreigners were acting in bad faith by protestingRead more...
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors says 4% annual rise expected
Find homes in Portugal via our property portal. Property prices are rising at a steady and sustained rate across the Portuguese property market, from Porto to the Algarve The leading survey on Portuguese property price expectations, the Portuguese Housing Market Survey (PHMS), is firmly in positive territory this springtime.Read more...
The Algarve celebrates 50 years of golf
Golf is 50 years old in the Algarve this year, making it a special time to visit. So if you’re planning a viewing trip there soon, why not squeeze in a round or two? Fifty years after the first golfer teed off in Portugal’s Algarve, this famous stretch of coastline is today one of the world’s most desirable golf destinations with a thriving international property market.Read more...
Quiet Portuguese charm beats the flashier Mediterranean fleshpots
The Portuguese island of Madeira has beaten hundreds of others to be placed third in the poll of Europe’s Best Islands, as voted by users of Trip Advisor. Find homes in Madeira via our property portal. Users of the world’s largest travel website Trip Advisor have named Madeira as their third favourite island in Europe. The site, with 320 million reviews, has aggregated all its reviews in the year to November 2015 and announced where users gave the biggest thumbs up. Santorini in Greece came first, Mallorca second and Madeira third.Read more...
New tax leaves hoteliers fuming and expats puzzled
Visitors arriving in the popular Algarve town of Vila Real will have to pay a €1 per night tourist tax this summer. Worried British homeowners are asking who will collect it from guests, while regular visitors are wondering if they must pay it each time they come. A small Algarve town has decided to impose a new tourist tax, infuriating the local hoteliers’ association.Read more...
Sir Cliff’s vineyard is for sale
As one famous British viticulturist is selling his Portuguese vineyard, international buyers are queuing up. A life in viticulture is never boring, says another British grower in the Douro Valley.Read more...
Portugal’s cities are about to get “yuppified”
Portugal’s Prime Minister has announced a huge investment to gentrify the country’s historic city centres, to encourage the middle classes back to the city and make renting more affordable.Read more...
