O preço médio de venda da habitação em Portugal aumentou para 996 € por metro quadrado no quarto trimestre de 2018. Segundo o Gabinete Nacional de Estatística, Lisboa e Porto registaram taxas de crescimento superiores a 23 por cento. Lisboa e o Algarve ainda têm os imóveis mais caros em Portugal, com o Porto a […]
De acordo com o relatório do World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), o turismo cresceu 8,1% em 2018, obtendo a taxa mais alta entre os países da União Europeia (UE) e também um dos mais altos entre todos os países europeus. De acordo com a edição impressa do Jornal de Negócios, no ano passado o […]
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 […]
Over the last few years, the Portuguese capital has transformed itself from down-at-heel to vibrant. In a city where high youth unemployment made itself painfully felt in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Lisbon has undergone a renaissance. Almost every street appears to have a building covered in scaffolding as homeowners and businesses renovate […]
“Where else could I have all this? In February?” asked the retired Swiss investment banker sitting inside Fabrica Coffee Roasters on Lisbon’s Rua da Flores, gesturing towards the sunny street outside. In 2016, he and his wife joined a steadily increasing trend of expatriates taking up Portuguese residency and bought a villa just outside Lisbon. […]
