Santiago
Rent in Praia nears 45,000 CVE a month and prices out half the city
The Cape Verdean capital concentrates public administration and the archipelago's largest internal migration, and that demographic weight is pushing rental pri…
Santiago
Santiago
Assomada, Santiago's second city, has a property market straddling the agricultural and the urban
Assomada's market combines the buying and selling of urban plots near the market with that of the surrounding farmland.
Santiago
Self-build housing gains ground on the outskirts of Praia amid a lack of affordable homes
Informally settled neighbourhoods on the edges of the capital keep growing through gradual self-build construction.
Santiago
The port and Nelson Mandela Airport push up housing prices in eastern Praia
Neighbourhoods between the Porto da Praia and the international airport are recording some of the capital's steepest price rises.
Santiago
Rents in Praia jump by up to 18% as civil servants and migrants from other islands arrive
The average rent for a two-bedroom flat in central Praia has risen sharply, driven by civil servants and families moving from other islands.
Santiago
Waiters, builders and domestic workers struggle to find homes near their jobs in Praia
The construction and services boom stands in stark contrast to the lack of affordable housing for the very workers who sustain it.
Santiago
The Governo and the Câmara Municipal da Praia launch new public land programme for social housing
The authorities have announced public land on the outskirts of Praia to promote affordable social housing.
Santiago
Cidade Velha begins a new phase of restoration for its World Heritage colonial old town
Cultural authorities are pushing forward conservation work in the historic centre, the first European city built in the tropics.
Santiago
Cape Verdean diaspora in the United States, the Netherlands and Portugal revives home-buying in Praia and Assomada
Agents are noting a rise in diaspora buyers purchasing homes for their families or as investments.
Santiago
São Domingos resists development pressure as farmland prices soar
The rural municipality is seeing the price of its farmland climb sharply as interest grows in plots near the Praia-Assomada road.
Santiago
Young people in Praia give up on buying a first home in Achada Grande and Palmarejo
Land and new-build prices have priced much of the younger population out of homeownership.