Banks Sell Up on Gold Street to Cash In on Lisbon Property Boom.

From the fifth floor of the Banco BPI building in downtown Lisbon, Chief Executive Officer Pablo Forero can get a clear view of the transformation taking place in the Portuguese capital. That's more than double the price investors would pay for a property in the same area three years ago, according to Square Asset Management, a real estate investment firm in Lisbon. [Extracted from the article]

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