PRACTICAL CONDOMINIUM GUIDES
Useful advice for your building.
Guides on condominium management in Lisbon: changing administrator, understanding the accounts, preparing the owners’ meeting, deciding on works and following your building from abroad.
Request a proposalThese guides explain, in plain language, the rules and practice of condominium management in Lisbon and across Portugal: how to change administrator, what to check in the accounts, how to prepare the owners’ meeting and how to decide on works. Five of them are currently available in Portuguese only, marked below; each guide shows its publication date and official sources, so always confirm what applies to your building.
Changing administrator
Change a condominium administrator in Portugal
The owners’ decision, the proposal to compare and an organised handover, in English. Explains the meeting notice, the vote, the minutes, the contract review and the bank and records transfer.
Administrator handover checklist (em português)
The records, balances, contracts and access to collect when the administration changes hands. Includes a downloadable list to record what was delivered and what is still missing.
When the administrator does not reply (em português)
How to act when the condominium administrator does not reply: urgency, a written request and evidence. Explains the route open to owners holding 25% of the building’s value and the appeal of the administrator’s acts to the owners’ meeting.
Accounts and pricing
Accounts, contributions, arrears and reserve fund (em português)
What to check every month in the condominium accounts: contributions, arrears, bank statements and the common reserve fund. Includes a downloadable monthly checklist.
Condominium management pricing in Lisbon
What condominium management in Lisbon costs each month and over a year, excluding VAT. Compares what is included, the extras and what the building pays separately.
Meetings and works
Owners’ meeting: notice, minutes and deadlines (em português)
From the ten-day notice to the minutes and the execution of resolutions. Covers quorum, majorities, remote meetings and the deadlines for challenging a decision.
Works in the building: quotations, insurance and execution (em português)
Who decides and who pays for works in the common parts, from diagnosis to documented closure. Explains the three quotations, the reserve fund and fire insurance.
Owners abroad
Non-resident condominium owner in Portugal
How to follow your building from abroad: proxies, remote meetings, accounts, works, tenants and selling the unit. Keeps the Portuguese document as the authoritative record.
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