Your landlord is selling: the right that lets you buy the flat first

Portuguese law gives certain people — tenants, co-owners and some public bodies — the right to buy a property before anyone else, on exactly the terms already agreed with the outside buyer. A tenant whose contract has run for more than two years has 30 days to decide after being notified by the owner. The same mechanism works in reverse: if you are the buyer, the property you want may be subject to it, which does not kill the deal but imposes a procedure and deadlines that have to be respected.