Which is?
The energy certificate is a document that assesses the energy efficiency of the property. This effectiveness is translated in a scale from A + (very efficient) to F (inefficient).

By whom is it performed?
Energy certification is carried out by technicians authorized by the energy agency.

At the time of the assessment, the technician can make recommendations for improving the energy efficiency of the property but there is no obligation to carry out the improvement, they are only proposals.

What determines the class?
The energy class is determined by several factors, including:
-Construction year
-location
-housing type
– housing area
-constitution of walls, roofs and floors
– air conditioning, ventilation, cooling and heating equipment
-equipments associated with the production of hot water

How to make the certificate?

• First of all you should look for qualified technicians / experts in your area of ​​residence, through the website https://www.sce.pt/pesquisa-de-tecnicos/
• Secondly, you must gather documentation such as a copy of the property plan, building booklet, housing technical sheet and certificate of registration of the property at the conservatory.
• Finally, the professionals visit the property to collect data.

What is the price of the certificate?
The price varies according to the characteristics of the property and the expert who will choose to proceed with the evaluation of the property.

How long is the certificate valid for?
The energy certificate is not for life, it is valid for 10 years for small commercial and service buildings. In the case of large buildings, the validity period is 6 years (if issued until 04/30/2015) or 8 years (if issued after 04/30/2015)

Fines in case of non-compliance?
Non-performing individuals are subject to a fine of 250 to 3740 euros.
Non-performing companies are subject to a fine of 2500 to 44 890 euros.

More questions and answers on the official website: https://www.sce.pt/perguntas-frequentes/

The better the energy rating of the house, the higher its selling price may be, as a better energy certificate means greater energy savings and significantly reduced costs, resulting in a good future investment.

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Having a real estate agent to help you sell your property allows several advantages:

Firstly, it allows you to have a complete evaluation of the property, ensuring that the price is correct taking into account the property itself and the prices practiced in the market.

The real estate agent will do a market study and valuation of properties similar to yours to arrive at a fair and realistic value for you and a future buyer

Second, the promotion of the property, when next to a real estate company, is done in a very rigorous way, with a complete and professional description focusing on the target audience you want to reach. The promotion is made on several websites, including the real estate website and on some that require payment for publication of the property. This allows for better and greater visibility as real estate agents have premium accounts that allow them to be more prominent on these platforms. A good promotion is halfway to achieving the goal.

Third, the property will be presented and detailed to potential buyers, clarifying all doubts and persuading the interested party to purchase the property in the best and most honest way. With this to be dealt with by the real estate agent, the seller will not have to spend time on the phone or in meetings with those interested in the property, the real estate agent takes care of the matter.

Fourth, the real estate agent, when scheduling visits to the property, already knowing the tastes of the possible buyer, manages to suggest and prepare the seller so that there is a favorable environment for sale.

Fifth, as initially mentioned, there are very bureaucratic issues that for those not in the business can be very difficult to resolve. In bureaucratic terms, real estate helps to obtain and gather all documentation and address very important legal issues.

Sixth and last, the real estate agent can negotiate the price with greater ease since the real estate consultant has more experience in negotiation and achieves a more objective, rational negotiation and with well-supported arguments.

Thus, selling with a real estate agent always becomes much more comfortable and safer for the seller and also much more desirable for the buyer.

Bet on a specialist so that your sale is as smooth and rewarding as possible.

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• Owner identification documents
• Permanent building certificate
  It can be requested through the website of the Land Registry Online (with a cost of 15 €) or in a conservatory (with a cost of 20 €).
  This document is valid for 6 months.
• Urban building book
  It is issued by the tax authority and it is necessary to go to the tax office in the area where the property is located or download it online on the finance portal.
  This document is valid for 1 year.
• Property plan
  It can be requested at the town hall in the area of ​​the property.
• Qualification of heirs (if the property is an inheritance)
• Use license or exemption from it (Except land)
  It can be requested at the town hall in the area of ​​the property.
• Property technical sheet (except land)
• Energy Certificate (Except land)
  Issued by the Agency for Energy (ADENE) technicians with a 10-year validity.

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The Gold Visa or Golden Visa, is a special regime of residence authorization for foreigners who invest in Portugal. It was created in 2012, through law No. 29/2012 of 29 August.

Who can apply for a Gold Visa?

According to information from the Aliens and Borders Service, any national of a third country who carries out an investment activity, personally or through a company, may apply for a golden visa.
To this end, you must implement in Portugal one of the following situations for a minimum period of five years:

1) Transfer of capital equal to or greater than 1 million euros.

2) Creation of at least 10 jobs.

3) Acquisition of real estate with a value equal to or greater than 500 thousand euros.

This visa is also attributable to foreigners holding social capital of a company with headquarters in Portugal or in another European Union country with a permanent establishment in Portugal and with a regularized contributory situation.

What are the investment requirements?

The investor must certify by Declaration on Commitment of Honor that he will exercise the economic activity with which he received the visa for a period of five years. How?

In the case of capital transfers in the amount equal to or greater than 1 million euros: foreign citizens must demonstrate that they have invested in the minimum amount required, including investments in shares or quotas of companies; have a statement from a financial institution authorized to carry out its activity in national territory attesting to the effective transfer of capital.

In the case of the creation of at least ten jobs. The applicant must demonstrate that he has created the jobs and prove, by means of a certificate, that he has registered workers with Social Security.

In the case of acquisition of real estate with a value equal to or greater than 500 thousand euros, the foreigner must demonstrate ownership of the property through an acquisition title or promise to purchase. You must also submit confirmation from the bank that you have transferred the amount of the payment in question.

Where can you apply and what documents should you present?

The Gold visa application can be delivered to the Portuguese Diplomatic and Consular Posts abroad or to the Directorates and Regional Delegations of the Foreigners and Borders Service. The following documents are required:

Passport or other valid travel document
Proof of entry and legal stay in national territory. SEF may require that the citizen has stayed in the country for a few days (seven in the first year, 14 in the second).
Proof of health insurance
Application for consultation of the Portuguese Criminal Registry by SEF
Criminal record certificate from the country of origin or the country where you live
Proof of the contributory situation regularized by presenting an updated negative debt declaration issued by the Tax and Customs Authority and Social Security.

Which citizens are prevented from applying for the golden visa?

Any foreign citizen who has been convicted of a crime that, in Portugal, would be punishable by a sentence greater than one year cannot obtain this visa. If the foreigner is banned from entering the national territory after a removal order applied by SEF, he / she cannot obtain a Gold visa.
If there is no information about the applicant in the Schengen Information System and if in the SEF Integrated Information System there is information that the applicant should not be admitted.

What is family reunification?

All holders of a Residence Permit for Investment activity, that is, a Gold visa, can apply for Family Reunification, that is, request an authorization for their family members to join them in Portugal.

How does it work in other European Union countries?

Portugal was, along with Latvia, one of the pioneers in this visa allocation system. Other countries followed, then followed. This was the case in Spain, Cyprus and Malta, which came to have a similar authorization in 2013.

Spain offers similar advantages to Portugal, but does not require, for example, a minimum stay period. In Greece, the golden visa is awarded to those who invest a minimum of 250 thousand euros, in Latvia 150 thousand and in Malta, the rental of a house for ten thousand euros a year is sufficient to have a Gold visa.

Malta was called to attention by Brussels after proposing the sale of citizenship to anyone who invested 650,000 euros in the country.

There is no European legislation that establishes rules for this type of authorization.

How much does a Gold Visa cost?

The Foreigners and Border Service charges € 513.75 for opening the case. In addition to this amount, 80.08 euros for each family member. The initial visa for the applicant and the family costs 5137.5 euros per person. The renewal is € 2568.75.

In the case of property purchase, there are also the normal associated costs, as is the case with IMI.

Source: https://observador.pt/explicadores/o-que-e-e-como-funciona-um-visto-gold/

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Exclusivity advantages:

1. More responsibility

In case of exclusivity, the real estate company is responsible for the success of the sale and as such it is possible to adapt strategies. If there is no exclusivity and there is more than one agency responsible for your property, in case of failure, there is no possibility to hold the agency responsible or to discuss new performance and improvement of the service provided.

In the event of exclusivity, the real estate company itself feel more committed to achieve the success of the sale, having every interest in investing in your property, improving and adapting its strategy.

2. More Dedication and Commitment

For example, a property that is in several real estate agencies, makes the dedication and commitment to sell of each one of them low, because there is a big risk of the property being sold by one of the real estate agents that may not even be the one that has dedicated the most, with injustice in this process.

Therefore, it is normal that the real estate agents will be much more proactive knowing that, in the event of a sale, there will certainly be a benefit for the real estate in question, leading to a greater desire to close the deal. While, outside the exclusivity regime, there is not the same motivation because any effort can end up without reward.

3. More investment in promotion

This point touches on the previous one, if the property is not exclusive, if it is being sold by several real estate agents, it is not certain who will end up getting the benefit of the sale, so it is no longer advantageous for the real estate companies themselves to invest in the promotion and advertising of the property when it may end up being sold by another real estate agency.

A real estate agent is committed to invest in your property if expect  a return.

4. Single interlocutor and Proximity in the process

If you have the property in several real estate agencies you will notice that it becomes confusing and difficult to deal with situations of updating or changing some information as you will often have to waste time contacting the agencies all individually to make any changes.

Having an exclusivity regime, it is much easier to manage these situations because the seller is very close to the sale process, with access to all information about it. It is much easier, not only to set a relationship with the real estate agent, but also to have all the feedback from the visits and the effort that is being made for marketing.

5. Real estate Sharing

If you have your property on a non-exclusive contract, the real estate agents do not invest heavily in the sale of the property for all the reasons already mentioned.

The opposite occurs if the property is exclusive, in which the investment is not only greater but the real estate agent will contact partner real estate agents to look for a client for the property. Thus, you will not have your property repeated in several real estate agencies, but you will have the benefit of several real estate companies allied to the sale of the property.

6. Better image on the market

If you have your property for sale at many agencies it may seem beneficial because it may have the false feeling that it will have greater reach. However, that doesn’t happen, on the one hand, because the ads end up being published by different agencies but on the same sites, repeating the same ad several times. On the other hand, as already mentioned, the investment in advertising is much less, so that the real estate agents, having no exclusivity of the property, are not concerned with updating and highlighting the advertising of the property.

In addition to that, a property published several times on the same site, only by different agencies, ends up raising questions of uncertainty in potential buyers. They end up wondering if the property has any problems, why the information differs between ads, why the price differs between ads, why it is in so many agencies.

Having an exclusivity regime, your ad will be advertised on all sites and will have much greater prominence since the real estate company will invest, without fear, in advertising it.

7. Faster process completion

With all this, of course, that the whole process turns out to be faster if the property is exclusive than if it is not, because in an exclusive situation many more resources and efforts are invested in completing the sale process.

Quality is better than quantity. So bet on exclusivity for your property!

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