Buy Smart: 3 Property Ownership Strategies to Lower Portuguese Property Taxes and Protect Your Residency

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If you’re buying property in Portugal to secure residency, support a D7 application, or manage taxes under NHR/IFICI, the ownership structure matters as much as the address. In this 9‑minute episode Mateus walks through three practical, legal ownership strategies — buying in your personal name, using a Portuguese LDA (limited company), and fractional/co‑ownership models — and shows real euro examples for Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve so you can compare closing costs, yearly IMI exposure, and administrative overhead. You’ll get concrete numbers (e.g. a €500,000 Lisbon flat vs a €350,000 Porto…