Interviews

Francisco Horta e Costa

The sure way to increase the market stock would be for local municipalities to speed up the licensing process and provide the land needed for new developments. On the bright side, the government decided to apply a 6% VAT rate (instead of 23%) for affordable housing projects.

João Torroaes Valente

Despite the setbacks caused by the pandemic, things have been slowly picking back up, and 2021 was a recovery year with over EUR 2 billion in transactions for real estate investments (still EUR 1 billion less than pre-pandemic times). In 2022, forecasts are also very optimistic with an expected investment value of over EUR 3.5 billion, reaching pre-pandemics figures. 

A massive portfolio of hotels is going to be sold for EUR 1 billion alone, which is a massive transaction for the size of the market.

Pedro Rutkowski

In 2021 the level of foreign capital was much lower than in the previous years, having decreased from 90% to 80%. More domestic investments have been made, a natural reaction of the market to borders suddenly closing.

Jose Pedro Guerra

BIM modelling is the star of the show nowadays and over the past two years we've seen great progress while using it. Currently, we are managing a relevant mixed-use project (office, retail and residential) in the central business district of Lisbon that employ this system.

Tiago Violas Ferreira

Since we inaugurated POP (Porto Office Park) a lot of demand came in, so much that if we had some extra 10,000 or 20,000 square meters they would have been immediately rented out. All this hunger is due to the well-known demand versus offer imbalance that characterizes Portugal at this point in time.

Aniceto Viegas

Ten years ago, Porto had an office market of maximum 15,000 square meters and nowadays it grew to nearly 80,000 square meters, around 40% to 50% of Lisbon's market.

Paulo Castro

Motivated by the expectation of growth, Farfetch challenged the Castro Group to develop a revolutionary space jointly. This development, a project by the Bjarke Ingels Group, will have 140,000 square metres of construction above the ground, of which 60,000 square metres will correspond to the FF offices, and the remaining program promoted under our responsibility will have an additional 62,800 square of offices, a hotel with 75 rooms, 42 apartments, 5,000 square of spaces for trade and business support services.

Miguel Braga da Cruz

Portugal has been seen as one of the best destinations for holidays for many years now - Porto for instance has occupied the top spot in the past four years. The business environment is in a similar position: we have good infrastructure, a stable legal framework, it's a safe country and has one of the best healthcare systems in the world (it was ranked 12th by the World Health Organization). The latter is also reflected in the high rate of vaccination, one of the highest in Europe currently.

Arthur Moreno

I would be very happy if sustainability would be taken more seriously by the industry as a whole and not only by developers. Only together with construction companies and investors we can make the real estate market a little bit greener than it is today.

Guilherme Vialle

The first project that bears our trademark is an apartment building in a 300-year-old historic property, located next to the presidential palace in Belém, next to the coach museum. Much of the interior architecture and paintings have been preserved and blended with modern elements, with a spectacular result.