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Applications for the Residential Condominium Support Program end on December 28 or as soon as the 12 million euro allocation for the Recovery and Resilience Plan is exhausted.
Residential condominiums can get support from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) of up to 150,000 euros for thermal insulation measures – whether facades, roofs or floors – that have the greatest potential for energy efficiency and energy savings in buildings. Applications to the Residential Condominium Support Program started this week. They run until December 28, 2023. Or until the date on which it is expected to exhaust the appropriation of this tender, which started with 12 million euros from the RRP. Applications are submitted by completing the form available on the Environmental Fund website.
The Program covers existing multi-family housing buildings, under full ownership with floors or rooms capable of independent use or under horizontal ownership, licensed for housing until December 31, 2006, inclusive, throughout the country. The beneficiaries of these RRP funds are represented by those responsible for the administration and management of the condominium. They can also be individual owners, in the case of wholly-owned buildings that are the subject of the application. The Residential Condominium Support Program aims to finance energy efficiency measures that promote the improvement of thermal comfort in residential buildings, contribute to the reduction of energy bills and the renovation of the existing housing stock.
Cada reunião de condóminos poderá significar empresas de AL encerradas
Every condominium meeting could result in the closure of local rental businesses. The Local Lodging Association says there are about 70,000 condominium-related properties in the industry that could be affected by the new legislation. Condominiums raise several uncertainties about the law
For the Portuguese Association of Local Lodging (APAL), the implications of the changes proposed by the Government in this sector, under the Mais Habitação program, will be immediate due to the new powers that will be conferred to condominiums.
The Secretary of State for Tourism has guaranteed, in several media, that the life span of local accommodation is guaranteed until 2030 and that, until then, no registrations will be cancelled”, referred the association in a statement distributed last night, adding that “the reality is not this”, and is “much more tragic”. “The secretary of state forgot to mention that when the government puts in this legislative package rules that legitimize the condominium assembly to close local housing, indiscriminately and without mediation of the municipalities, in a sector that has 70,000 properties inserted in condominiums, very likely, in 2030, who governs will have few records to cancel or renew.” For the association led by Eduardo Miranda, the executive is creating “an environment of terrorism in condominiums.” “From now on, each meeting of condominium owners could mean LA businesses closed, families without income, employees sent to unemployment, tourists with reservations without accommodation, businessmen who have contracted debts in the pandemic without having the means to pay them back,” stresses the Alep. The association also says on its website that in addition to apartments, it is also necessary to take into account “about 8000 accommodation establishments and rooms that are mostly in residential buildings, so that, with a change of this content, the law would pose a constant risk of closure, renewed each year, on the occasion of the condominium meeting, to 70% of the supply of AL in Portugal. Excluded from this measure are buildings totally dedicated to rented property, as happens in several situations.
Data from the national registry of local accommodation from the Tourism of Portugal show that this Monday, by 12 noon, there were 109,482 registrations, of which 70,969 were apartments. In an analysis by districts, it appears that the highest concentration is in Faro (with 26,566), followed by Lisbon (21,107) and Porto (10,573). Altogether, these three districts have 82% of the apartments in rented accommodation in the country, but the scenario changes if the focus is on the municipality level. In a more detailed analysis made by PÚBLICO in June last year, based on data from the previous month, there were then 66.153 apartments in rented accommodation, of which 38.979 belonged to sole proprietors and another 27.174 belonged to companies. In an analysis by boroughs, Lisbon led the table, with 18,027 apartments in rented accommodation, followed by Porto, with 7564, and Albufeira, with 6366. The rest of the “top 10” was filled by municipalities of the Algarve, with the exception of Funchal (9th position, with 1308).According to the Government’s proposal, which is under public consultation until the 10th of this month, local lodging that already exists in a building can be closed if this is the decision of “more than half of the building’s permilage”. The goal of the executive is, with the application of various measures that are on the table, to encourage “the transfer of dwellings in local housing to rental housing”.
Preços dos serviços de gestão de condomínios dispararam entre 3% a 25%
According to the Fixando platform, in January and February 2023, the demand for condominium management services increased by 60% compared to the same period last year. Services such as remodeling works, exterior painting, plumbing and gardening are more expensive.
If you notice that the monthly payment you pay to your condominium is increasing in 2023, don’t be surprised. Inflation is to blame. According to an analysis on the demand and costs of condominium services, conducted by the Fixando platform among 12,500 users, property owners will see prices associated with condominium management services skyrocket between 3% and 25% this year, compared to 2022. These figures come at a time of year when, following most condominium meetings, many owners decide to turn to condominium management companies to carry out administrative tasks (93%), financial management (85%), cleaning of common areas (64%) and gardening services (9%). The platform’s analysis thus reveals that in January and February 2023, the demand for Condominium Management services increased by 60% compared to the same period last year. Because of the high demand, and according to the analysis carried out, 51% of customers are not finding available professionals, when in 2022 this situation occurred with only 39% of the users of the platform.
As for the services provided by condominium management companies, there is an increase in demand for remodeling services: 83% more between January 1 and February 15, compared to the previous six weeks). The same happens with gardening services (+134% demand), painting (+500%) or plumbing (+75%). As for the prices charged for these seviços, they are being highly impacted by inflation, the analysis reveals. “Remodeling works contracted through Fixando register in 2023 an average price per service of 3500 euros, while in 2022 the average price charged was 3475 euros. Exterior painting maintains the price of 1400 euros per fraction, while plumbing services rose from an average of 72 euros/hour in 2022, to 90 euros/hour in the first two months of this year” reveals the platform in a statement.
Deco defends creation of an entity to supervise condominium management And not even gardening services escaped the increases, registering at the beginning of this year an average price per service higher than last year: 100 euros compared to the previous 94 euros. The inspection and removal of mold has increased from 253 euros per service, to 280 euros. Fixando is an online platform for hiring services, present in the national market since 2017, with access to over 50,000 professionals from various areas.
