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COVID-19: For some workers there is no quarantine

Mar

30

2020

We live in a cosmopolitan society, in which interdependent relationships prevent everyone from staying at home, while the pandemic of this coronavirus , COVID-19 , spreads and leaves a trail of death, worldwide. That is why some professionals have not abandoned their jobs in the areas of healthcare, science and research, defense and security, logistics and...

Excuse me please...

Feb

08

2020

My experience in this area has allowed me, however, to see that the activity of real estate brokerage suffers from a serious gap that has affected both professionals and clients, who need to use a mediator to buy or sell their property.

Although the activity of real estate mediation companies has been a regulated activity since 1992 and at present it requires the...

Third-party land registers, lawyers and solicitors can now consult them

Oct

31

2019

Until October 2019, consultation of a property register was shrouded in confidentiality and only accessible to the owner(s) of the respective properties. This privacy rule still remains unchanged, however, an exception was introduced for lawyers and solicitors. These professionals now have the possibility of accessing this information whenever they are dealing with...

Real Estate - Tax changes for 2017

Jan

09

2017

So, here are the main tax changes for the current budget:

Additional to the Municipal Property Tax (AIMI)

The big news, also known as "Mortágua Tax", due to the way it was announced, this new tax is not really a new tax as it replaces, according to new models, the previous stamp duty additional to IMI, in force since 2014 ( 1% for VPT greater than 1 million euros)....