Portugal's Economic and Investment Future

Watch Back This Webinar:

Discover How Portugal is Outperforming International Markets and Bucking Economic Trends

As 2024 draws to a close, Portugal Pathways hosted its end of year webinar, which discussed how Portugal is outperformed international markets, including the UK, US and Eurozone, and how this is set to continue for 2025.

This session reflected on the key developments of the past year and provided insights into what lies ahead for Portugal’s economy, property market, and investment landscape. This end-of-year review highlighted metrics that have defined Portugal’s growth in 2024 along with where the international investment and relocation is coming from, as we see significant demand from US, Canada, UK, South Africa, Ireland, Northern Europe, Brazil and parts of Asia.

What to expect at this webinar:

NHR 2.0: Learn how the new NHR 2.0 tax regime in Portugal, which is hoped to come into law in the first quarter of 2025, and expected to be very supportive to entrepreneurial and investment activities, people with professional and academic qualifications or high productivity related professions.

Investment in Portugal and Economic Growth: Explore how 85% of entrepreneurs plan to establish or expand operations in Portugal compared to 72% in the Eurozone. Portugal has recently outperformed the rest of the Eurozone and the UK on GDP growth and inflation and is forecast to continue that trend following its recent A rating from Fitch.

Real Estate Trends in Portugal: Discover how the Portuguese property market is forecast for 5.8% growth in 2025. Portugal continues outperforming the broader EU/UK markets, which are expected to decline by 2.5% in 2024.

Whether you are an investor, prospective property buyer, or someone following Portugal’s growth story, this webinar offers a clear and concise overview of the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Host and Panellists:

Paul Stannard, Portugal Pathways and Portugal Investment Owners Club Chairman and Founder, Webinar Host: Paul, an international entrepreneur with experience in media, innovation platforms, and real estate indexes, will present findings from Property Market-Index’s latest report on Portugal’s luxury real estate market compared to global markets. With a background in alternative investment funds, he will also introduce Portugal Pathways' latest Golden Visa residency by investment initiative.

Philip Button, Managing Director at Brookes Property Group: Philip Button, a Chartered Certified Accountant with over 30 years of experience, joined Brookes & Co in 1998. Since founding their international luxury real estate business in 2004, he has facilitated over $500 million in property transactions and developed major luxury projects in Florida, Antigua, and the Bahamas. He is now set to launch the Quinta Heights luxury development in Portugal's Central Algarve.

Chris Marson,  CEO of RTI Family Office: Chris has over 30 years of experience managing significant wealth for ultra-high-net-worth international families, Chris possesses expert insight into private equity, wealth management, real estate, technology, and cross-border tax and financial planning.

Sasha Young, tax and estate planning attorney at Concepción Law: Sasha is an experienced attorney specialising in corporate finance, entertainment, and cross-border tax and estate planning for clients in the US, Europe, and Latin America. She has advised a global streaming platform on production, licensing, and regulatory matters and worked with top international law firms on major infrastructure and aviation finance projects.