Tag: housing

• How Lisbon put itself on the map for real estate and tourism – and became Europe’s least affordable city | Agustín Cocola-Gant | The Guardian

  June 25, 2025

  Tourists stay in short-term rentals and foreigners buy second homes, while residents of the city rent rooms, not apartments, says researcher Agustín Cocola-Gant https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/lisbon-europe-portugal-golden-visa-capital-investors-short-term-rentals more ›

• Luxury homes, short lets and shacks: inside Lisbon’s housing crisis

  December 26, 2021

  Manuela Lopes dates her misfortune from the moment her Lisbon neighbourhood began attracting comparisons with Brooklyn. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/luxury-homes-short-lets-and-shacks-inside-lisbons-housing-crisis more ›

• The Global Housing Market Is Broken, and It’s Dividing Entire Countries

  September 19, 2021

  The dream of owning a home is increasingly out of reach. Democratic and authoritarian governments alike are struggling with the consequences. It’s a phenomenon given wings by the pandemic. And… more ›

• A Big Investor Warns After Lisbon’s Property Boom

  October 12, 2019

  Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes. The time to buy, Baron Rothschild said after the battle of Waterloo, is… more ›