Bento Aires: "House prices will rise between 5 to 10% in the next two years. There will be no stagnation"

Expresso11 September 2026 at 08:00

Bento Aires, director of the Real Estate Futures Center at Porto Business School, predicts that house prices in Portugal will rise between 5 to 10% in the next two years, rejecting the possibility of stagnation in the real estate market.

Porto Business School created a new applied research center for the real estate sector, called the Real Estate Futures Center, which was launched in July. This center aims to contribute to solving the housing problem in Portugal.

The Real Estate Futures Center presented the first edition of a barometer that brings together the vision of sector experts and identifies the main bottlenecks to housing production in the country. The article analyzes the main conclusions of this barometer with the center's director, Bento Aires.

The article includes a podcast with the complete interview with Bento Aires, where the data and analyses of the barometer on the Portuguese real estate sector are further explored.

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