Construction Orders in Portugal increased 63 percent in December of 2016 over the same month in the previous year. Construction Orders in Portugal averaged -4.07 percent from 2001 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 63.00 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 and a record low of -49.70 percent in the second quarter of 2012. source: Statistics Portugal

Related	Last	Previous	Unit	Reference
Building Permits	2067.00	2433.00	Units	Apr 2026
Construction Output	2.60	6.50	percent	Apr 2026
Existing Home Sales	30356.00	34459.00	dwellings	Mar 2026
Home Ownership Rate	71.20	73.40	percent	Dec 2025
House Price Index MoM	3.80	4.00	percent	Mar 2026
House Price Index YoY	17.80	18.90	percent	Mar 2026
Housing Index	110.28	106.20	points	Mar 2026
New Home Sales	7389.00	8625.00	dwellings	Mar 2026
Price to Rent Ratio	202.46	195.34		Dec 2025
Residential Property Prices	18.89	17.68	Percent	Dec 2025

Portugal New Construction Orders

"The New Orders in Construction Index will be discontinued, making this the last press release to be produced by INE regarding this indicator. This decision is due to the fact that the index produced is barely relevant as an input to the national accounts, added to fact that it is a highly volatile index, with poor correlation with other data released for the construction sector", INE said in a statement.