The European Commissioner for Housing has already admitted that they are necessary “more European rules” to what he says is “a big problem in many cities”: the pressure on the supply of homes to live in from businesses such as short-term rentals and tourist accommodation. The issue drags on, just as in Portugal the debate on the business of local accommodationwhose real numbers are far from what the still active records of this type of establishment suggest. Here, a process of ‘cleaning’ local accommodation that the owners did not cancel is underway, which should result in the elimination of more than 40 thousand that remained inactive, totaling 125 thousand nationwide. It will be a reduction of one third of the supply shown in national registers and which, according to the Local Accommodation Association in Portugal (ALEP), should take place in November.
In Lisbon, registrations should drop from the current 18,600 to 11 or 12 thousand, and in Porto from the current 10,600 to less than 9 thousand, as estimated by ALEP when Express.