Thinking of a staycation in Portugal this year, then a road trip should be on the cards as Portugal takes the top spot in Europe.

If you own property or land in Portugal, you will be liable to pay Property Tax, or 'IMI' (‘Imposto Municipal sobre Imóveis’) every year. Find out, where, when and how you can pay the IMI Tax, even if you are abroad.

This is according to the latest 2020 Global Peace Index (GPI), by the Institute for Economics & Peace, which compiles the 'ranking' of the world’s safest countries. Portugal’s Ministry of Home Affairs has said it is happy with the results. Portugal is the third safest country in the world to live and work according to the Global Peace Index. Portugal appears in third position, after Iceland and New Zealand. In 2014, Portugal ranked eighteenth on the Index, having climbed to third position in 2019.

The Algarve region has once again come out on top as the best golfing destination in Portugal according to a Holidu that has ranked the country according to where you can find the best golf courses and the quality that they present for both professionals and novices in different regions.

Any expected fall in the Portuguese real estate market has not yet occurred, with prices in Portugal instead rising 5.9 percent in 2020. House prices rose 5.9 percent, reaching €2,147 per square metre (m2). In relation to the quarterly variation, the increase was 2.7 percent in the last quarter of the year, according to the price index from Idealista. In the third, second and first quarters, prices had grown by 1 percent, 0.5 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively.