Portuguese PBSA Overview: Executive Summary

Portugal's PBSA market has grown consistently over the past decade, but supply remains well short of demand. With the development pipeline gaining momentum and key markets consolidating their position, the sector has entered a new phase, more mature, more institutional, and underpinned by fundamentals that few real estate asset classes can match.
Why the international success?

Portugal has quietly but steadily built one of Europe's most competitive value propositions for international students. World-class universities, a quality of life that few European cities can replicate, and costs, from tuition to accommodation, from groceries to day-to-day living, that make Portugal a rational choice for both degree-seeking and exchange students. The enrolment numbers reflect it, an international student base expanding at pace.