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About Buying in Portugal
Buying in Portugal is a guidance site built to help buyers understand the Portuguese property process before they need a lawyer, in plain, buyer-first language.
Who this site is for
This site is written for people considering buying property in Portugal, whether they are relocating from abroad, buying a second home, or Portuguese speakers researching the process for the first time.
It covers questions that come up at every stage: choosing a location, understanding costs and taxes, comparing property types, planning a purchase, and knowing what to do once you have found a property.
A buyer-first approach
The guides are organised around the questions buyers actually ask, not around legal categories or industry jargon. Where a topic is genuinely complex, we say so, and we point towards where to get a definitive answer rather than oversimplifying it.
Tools such as the Personal Buying Plan, the purchase cost calculator, Compare Locations, and the off-plan and resort checklists exist to help you organise your own thinking and prepare better questions, not to replace advice.
How content is researched and reviewed
Content is written and periodically reviewed against official Portuguese sources covering taxation, land registration and property regulation, and against the practical experience of Valente Veiga & Associados in advising buyers.
Each page and tool shows when it was last reviewed, so you can judge how current the information is before relying on it.
The relationship with VVA
Buying in Portugal is operated together with Valente Veiga & Associados (VVA), a Portuguese law firm. VVA's practical knowledge of real transactions informs how the guides are written.
The site and VVA's legal services are, however, kept distinct: this site gives general information, and VVA provides advice and representation once you formally engage them, typically after using the Found a Property flow or the Legal Support section.
Information, not legal services
Nothing on this site, and no answer from the AI assistant, is legal, tax or financial advice, and using the site does not create a lawyer-client relationship. See the Legal Disclaimer for the full detail on this distinction.