Guides
A Rhamos guide is the mother page of a subject: it gathers what needs to be known, links to the articles on that subject, and carries a verification date. Two are published — buying property in Portugal as a foreign national, and property and residency across three markets.
The other three content pillars already have a mother page published, in another part of the site. What is still being written are the cluster articles beneath them. This page says where each mother page lives and what state each cluster is in, without presenting as finished anything that is not.
A guide is not a long article. It is the page that sits at the centre of a subject, that every article on that subject links to and that links back to each of them. Someone arriving with a very specific question finds the context here; someone arriving at the guide finds the specific question from here.
Three things separate a guide from sales copy. It carries a visible verification date. It cites the primary source — Diário da República, Boletín Oficial del Estado, Dubai Land Department — and not another agency's summary. And where we do not hold a confirmed figure, we write that we do not, rather than rounding it.
That is also why there are few of them. One guide per subject, maintained and dated, does more work than a dozen similar pages nobody revisits once published.
It is not legal or tax advice. It does not replace reading the law applying to your case, or confirming it with a qualified professional. And it is not written once: when the rule changes the guide changes, and the date at the head of the verification says when.
Five content pillars, each with one mother page. Two live here, as guides. The other three live in the section they belong to, because that is where they make sense to someone navigating the site.
| Pillar | Central question | Mother page | Cluster |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buying property in Portugal as a foreign national | What is needed to buy in Portugal from abroad? | Markets · Portugal | Being built |
| Property and residency: Portugal, Spain and Dubai | Does buying property grant residency? | Guides · Property and residency | Being built |
| Neighbourhoods and micro-areas | Which areas make up Lisbon's prime market? | Markets · Lisbon | Being built |
| Investment and yield | How is a property's yield read before buying? | Services · Investment and yield | Being built |
| Process and method | What does a consultant acting for the buyer actually do? | How we work | Being built |
«Being built» means the cluster articles are being written and are published in the Journal as they are finished and dated. We do not publish a count of articles here: it would be a figure that changes with each publication and that this page cannot stand behind.
Two. One covers the process of buying in Portugal for someone buying from abroad. The other covers a question whose answer changed in all three jurisdictions between 2023 and 2026.
What you need in place before making an offer, which charges belong in the budget beyond the price, which property documents are read before a viewing, and what is no longer true about residency. The mother page for this subject is the Portugal market page.
Read the guide to buying in PortugalThe three jurisdictions have diverged completely. In Portugal the property route into the Residence Permit for Investment Activity (ARI) was removed in October 2023 by Lei 56/2023. In Spain the golden visa was repealed with effect from 3 April 2025 by Ley Orgánica 1/2025. In Dubai the threshold of AED 2,000,000 of value registered at the Dubai Land Department remains.
Read the guide to property and residencyA guide on subject matter that changes is only worth reading if it says when it was confirmed. There are three rules and they apply to all of them.
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Every statement about law, taxation or residency carries the date on which it was confirmed. The date is on the page, not in the source code.
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The link points at the instrument in the Diário da República, in the Boletín Oficial del Estado, or at the competent authority. Never at another agency's summary.
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When a rule changes the guide is rewritten and the verification date changes with it. A substantive change is marked rather than made quietly.
It is the mother page of a subject. It gathers the essentials of that subject on a single page, links to the Journal articles that develop it, and receives a link back from each of them. Every statement about law, taxation or residency carries a visible verification date and a link to the primary source.
Because only two subjects currently have a mother page written in guide form. The other three content pillars — neighbourhoods, investment and method — have their mother page published in another section of the site, and their cluster articles are being written. Publishing five guides with three of them empty would give a false impression of what exists.
We do not publish a review schedule. Each guide carries the date on which its regulatory statements were confirmed against the primary source, and that date is updated when the confirmation is redone. When the rule changes the guide is rewritten and the date changes with it.
No. The guides describe the applicable framework and point to the primary source so that you can confirm it. They do not replace analysis of your own case by a lawyer or a qualified tax adviser, which is where the structure of the purchase and its consequences are settled.
If your question is about residency, start with the guide to the three jurisdictions: the answer changed in all three jurisdictions between 2023 and 2026, and much of the information in circulation predates those changes. If your question is about the buying process in Portugal, start with the market page.