Land in Portugal is increasing in size

We are Imobiliaria in Portugal, that is to say a registered real estate agent and we have recently discovered that Portugal is expanding, which is handy considering the amount of people who seem to want to move here from the north of Europe and beyond, Indeed many Portuguese nationals are also returning from such places as Mozambique and South Africa also a fair number of Brazilians are making the move here.

But how is Portugal getting bigger, are the borders with Spain shifting, volcanic activity tectonic movement or is there some other-worldly explanation for these phenomena. Before you pack your bags and head for the new land grab with your covered wagons let me explain.

For a long period of time perhaps centuries certainly many decades people have been lying to the government, perhaps in retaliation for the usual tissue of lies we all have to put up with from politicians not that I am in anyway cynical.

The reason for these dalliances with the truth is tax the smaller your land the less tax you pay so people have been reporting there plots as significantly smaller than they really are.But now that the influx of people from the north of Europe is accelerating this is changing, in the north we have long been highly regulated in our land and property transactions but some of the councils here still don’t have property boundaries marked clearly on a map they still rely on bits of paint on a stone or if yourlucky you may have a concrete post or two.

With the insistence of more and more people on topographical surveys the land mass of rural Portugal seems to be increasing exponentially without a single stretch mark earthquake or crack.

So if you are searching for property in Portugal take care of the amount of land you are buying more is not necessarily better it can simply mean more maintenance more money more aggravation.