House Prices in Portugal

The IMF’s new report on Portugal says:

“Housing prices continue to increase, but there is no significant overvaluation yet. Following a decline of 18 percent in real terms over 2010–13, housing prices have since increased by
about 20 percent in real terms (7.9 percent in 2017), especially in Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve region. While the increases have been driven largely by transactions on existing dwellings by non-residents, the share of housing transactions financed by Portuguese mortgages has been growing since 2015 (reaching 41 percent in the last quarter of 2017). Estimates in the ECB’s May 2018 Financial Stability Review suggest that there are incipient signs of overvaluation in the residential real estate market. The authorities should continue to improve the quality of real estate data and related analytical tools, and to monitor mortgage markets and the evolution of risks to banks from developments in real estate markets.”

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Labels: Global Housing Watch

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