# Rents fall in Lisbon for the first time in six years (Expresso, 8 Jul 2020)

* **Housing. Rents fall in Lisbon for the first time in six years**
* Original headline in Portuguese: *Habitação. Rendas caem em Lisboa pela primeira vez em seis anos*
* By Vítor Andrade. Published in Expresso on 8 July 2020
* <https://expresso.pt/economia/2020-07-08-Habitacao.-Rendas-caem-em-Lisboa-pela-primeira-vez-em-seis-anos>
* **Summary through Google Translate:**
  * For the first time in six years, housing rents in Lisbon dropped 1.8% in the first quarter of this year - compared to the same period last year.
  * According to the Confidencial Imobiliário database, the last negative change dates back to the fourth quarter of 2013 (-1.7%).
  * Since the end of 2017, rents in Lisbon have been losing pace, going from a year-on-year increase of around 19% then recorded, to around 12% at the end of 2018 and, in a new contraction, to 1.4% at the end of 2019 , also note the analysts of Confidencial Imobiliário.
* **Keywords**: Lisbon, Porto, Portugal, rental housing, rental prices, data sources

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Short news articles like this, which are published regularly, **are useful to compile data and also to find out about and get to the primary sources of such data**: in this case Confidencial Imobiliário: <https://confidencialimobiliario.com/en/>
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