Portugal

Quinta Finance has established itself as the leading mortgage brokerage service in Portugal that offers professional mortgage advice for non-resident property buyers; our aim is to help you throughout every step of the process until completion. Although things can often change quite dramatically over the period of a mortgage, it is worthwhile noting that Interests rates on the European Continent are typically lower than in the UK. The problem is that the low interest rates are starting to attract a lot of buy-to-let investors, who are finding that the UK market has begun to mature.

This brings in tax revenue and VAT income from new owners buying kitchens and undertaking property refurbishment. In this overview, we'll help you to get started on the process of securing a mortgage in Portugal. Here you can see the real example of the loan related expenses, the deal has been closed in 2017, house price is EUR 118.500 and the bank loan (80%) - EUR 102.200 (please read our interview with property owner ).

Of course, the banks are to blame as well; it's not as if they were stupid and didn't know what was going on. But they had their shareholders to answer to and everyone was making record profits, so they were chasing those profits, and as long as interest rates were low, and home prices were rising, then everything was copacetic.

The current levels of residential loans are bolstered by the historically low level of the indexes used in loan contracts - which remain negative - but also by diminishing spreads charged by banks, which are aggressively increasing liquidity in the economy.

There are not too many fundamental differences between a foreign mortgage and a UK based one, but bear in mind that the risks of buying a property are the same as in the UK. In Europe it is not the norm to see Mortgages offered interest only and it is very rare to see buy-to-let mortgages.

In the case of the three month Euribor rate, your mortgage repayments will be fixed for three months at the prevailing rate at the day you sign the mortgage deed, thereafter, every three months later the bank will apply the average rate of the three month Euribor rate to your mortgage from the previous month.

It is rather like a car lease: during the term the property belongs to bank, and at the end of the term, for a peppercorn payment, it will become Mortgages in Portugal the property of the client. Most banks will not offer a mortgage to individuals who are over 70-years old, but some will extend this limit to 80.

Then once the property was completed, the bank offered a loan of 450.000€ for a 25 year period. Capital gains tax for non-residents is charged at a flat rate of 28% and is payable at the time of sale. You'll also find that, depending on the lender, there are loans available at both variable and fixed rates.

As well as this, the government has introduced a tax system for non-habitual residents, or non-Portuguese who have not lived in Portugal for the previous five years. Portugal Mortgages can be found for all of the following circumstances (although no one lender will offer them all).

Some lenders are willing to offer 100% loan-to-value (LTV) mortgages in an effort to shift repossessed properties on their books. Banks do not always offer the same conditions to clients, even if they have similar profiles. If developers continue to build at existing rates and Bulgarians continue to leave at existing rates, some predict many thousands of empty apartments in five years time.