In statements to the Lusa news agency, Eduardo Miranda said that, within the scope of the awareness campaign for the mandatory registration of civil liability insurance by owners of local accommodations, “151 municipalities have already made this notification”.

“The last batch [of notifications] was in November” and absent owners “must complete this process by the end of the year,” he added.

The Portuguese Local Accommodation Association (ALEP) estimates that, after the remaining municipalities proceed with the notifications, presumably “in January or February,” the process “could be completed by the summer” of 2026, resulting in “between 40,000 and 45,000 cancellations” of Local Accommodation, while “85,000 to 90,000” accommodations will remain active.

Eduardo Miranda was speaking to Lusa in Óbidos, where he is participating in the 4th Local Accommodation Congress.

The president of ALEP recalled that the process of notifying owners to submit their registration, which began in June, “is being carried out by groups of municipalities,” and that, of the approximately 126,000 or 127,000 registered Local Accommodation properties, “78,000 have already been notified.” Once the ten-day registration period ends, the respective municipalities can “proceed with the cancellation” of those who do not comply with this requirement.

Eduardo Miranda also considered that the Lisbon City Council, which was included in the first batch of notifications, “should be the first to proceed with the cancellations, especially since, due to its size, it has been used as a pilot to see if the systems are working”.

“In Lisbon, there is already a good understanding that seven thousand registrations should be cancelled in this final phase, out of a total of 18,600,” stated the president of ALEP, considering that “more than a third of the registrations are being cancelled due to inactivity, which means that all those numbers used in the public discussion, in many parishes, are completely wrong.”

At the congress, Eduardo Miranda drew attention to the importance of adapting municipal regulations on local accommodation to the reality of each municipality or parish in the country, where “1.8 million houses are not used for housing.”

For Eduardo Miranda, “the ratios [relating to the percentage of local accommodation that can be licensed] have to be adapted to the specificities” of the territories, taking into account, for example, “the reality of the Algarve, where “about 50% of the houses are for holidays,” so the suspension of local accommodation “conditions tourism and the economy.”

Participating in a panel with mayors from various municipalities in the West, in which everyone argued that there are conditions for the growth of short-term rentals in their respective municipalities, Eduardo Miranda emphasized the importance of conducting concrete surveys of the number of housing units and the rates of short-term rentals in operation in order to "be able to foresee when it is necessary to impose limits."