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Amadora registered the highest increase in housing price in the first three months of the year. It has increased by 22.7% relative to the national average of 9.2%. Lisbon keeps registering the highest housing prices in the country, despite Amadora registering the most accentuated increase in those relative to the national average. According to the […]
Public debt dropped by 5.6Bn€ in June, after the payment of 8.1Bn€ in general obligation bonds during that month as reported by the Bank of Portugal. With such reimbursement, the public debt fell from 252.5Bn€ to 246.9Bn€. During last June, IGCP (Portuguese Treasury and Debt Management Agency) underwent the biggest amortization of the year by […]
The Portuguese economy grew by 0.5% in the second trimester relative to the first three months of 2019, growing above the EU average. The Portuguese economy grew by 0.5% in the second trimester relative to the first three months of 2019, maintaining the same growth pace shown at the beginning of the year as well […]
According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) report, tourism grew by 8.1% in 2018, obtaining the highest rate among European Union (EU) countries and also one of the highest among all European countries. According to the printed edition of Jornal de Negócios, last year the estimated direct impact on the Portuguese economy was […]
The average sale price of housing in Portugal increased to €996 per square meter in the fourth quarter of 2018. According to the National Statistics Office, Lisbon and Porto saw growth rates above 23 percent. Lisbon and the Algarve still have the most expensive real estate in Portugal, with Porto having one of the biggest […]
Emerging Trends in Europe 2019 ranked the real estate markets in major European cities according to their overall investment and development prospects. With some of Europe’s major markets judged to be peaking, attention is shifting to smaller, dynamic cities: the “rising stars”. This year’s choice for overall prospects is Lisbon, rising 10 places to number […]
Portugal’s economy will continue to grow above the European Union average, helped by the country’s ability to attract investment, Economy Minister Pedro Siza Vieira said. “We’ve seen for the past eight quarters Portugal growing above the EU average and we expect this to continue,” Siza Vieira said in a Bloomberg Television interview at the Web […]
Three European countries (Cyprus, Malta and Monaco) are amongst the twenty-one countries whose residence and citizenship by investment schemes potentially pose a high-risk says OECD. THE OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) has published a ‘black list’ of 21 countries, which includes Cyprus, whose residency and/or citizenship by investment schemes potentially pose a high-risk […]
Italian government bonds are increasingly seen as riskier investments given the anti-establishment Cabinet and its public spending plans — so much so, that Italian bonds are moving closer to being seen to be as risky as Greece’s. The yield on the 10-year Italian government bond is currently at 3.58 percent — the highest level in over five years. The […]
Rating agency Moody’s on October 5th, 2018 pushed Portugal’s sovereign credit rating back into investment-grade territory for the first time since 2011, citing a decline in the country’s debt burden. The agency raised Portugal’s rating one notch to Baa3 from Ba1 and changed its outlook to “stable” to “positive”. Moody’s attributed the move to two […]