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The rent freeze regime in Portugal continues to exert a significant influence on the national rental market. Although it originated in early 20th-century legislation, its effects remain deeply felt today, with thousands of residential tenancy agreements still bound by outdated and financially unsustainable rent values. These agreements, many signed before 1990, are now one of the factors aggravating the country’s housing crisis.
In an article for The Portugal News, Inês Melo dos Santos, Senior Associate in the Real Estate practice area at CCA Law Firm, analyses how this legal anomaly has endured for decades—despite successive reforms—and reflects on the urgent need to restore fairness in landlord-tenant relations.
“The exceptions kept for older leases, even when justified on social grounds, ended up crystallizing a prolonged injustice for landlords, who are forced to bear the financial burden of a public policy without any compensation,” explains the lawyer.
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- The Portugal News