Shops for Sale, in Paredes, Vilela

Building with 3 fractions and 2 floors, located in the centre of Vilela, next to the access to the highway to Paredes.

This property with commercial use is an excellent option to transform into housing.

It has a gross private area of 185 m2 to which is added the patio or front terrace of 70 m2.

Here’s what you need to do to turn it into housing:

Decree-Law no. 10/2024 of January 8 reforms and simplifies licensing in the field of urban planning and chooses as a priority the simplification of administrative activity through the continuous elimination of unnecessary licenses, authorisations and administrative acts, in a logic of ’zero licensing’.

The objective was to eliminate disproportionate licenses, authorisations and administrative requirements that create context costs without having an effective added value for the public interest that is intended to be pursued.

Its main objective is to create conditions so that there is more housing available at affordable costs.
How to achieve this goal:

Firstly, by eliminating the need to obtain urban planning permits, creating new cases of prior notice, exemption and exemption from prior control.
Another novelty is the elimination of the building permit, which is replaced by the receipt of payment of the fees due.

So let’s talk first about the rules inscribed in the General Regulation of Urban Buildings (RGEU), still in force, for a store or office to be considered a dwelling it needs to have at least 35 square meters (m2) of gross area in the case of T0.
The minimum size goes up to about 130 m2 in the case of T6.
As for rooms, the law indicates, in general, that they cannot have an area of less than 9 m2, and in houses with less than five rooms one of them must have at least 12 m2. When it comes to houses with more than five rooms, there must be at least two rooms with that area.
Simplex Urbanístico also facilitated the construction of these structures, namely by removing the obligation to have bidets and bathtubs in bathrooms - which can now be replaced by showers.
The same happens with kitchens, allowing solutions such as kitchenettes.

Accessibility is a condition
Another aspect that you should take into account when designing the spaces for the project is accessibility.
According to the law, all rooms must be wide enough for a wheelchair to pass. Even if the current owners do not have any motor difficulties, the space must be prepared to accommodate this reality.

Respecting these rules, the works were finished. And what are you going to do? Briefly:
Once the conversion of the shop or office into a residential property is completed, all that remains is to change the type of use of the fraction with the city council, carry out a deed of change of the horizontal property that will allow you to change the allocation of the property in the Finances and the Land Registry Office and enjoy your new space.

It is a case of saying:
From shop to home in less than a month !

Do you still have doubts about the simplicity of the process of what to do in the City Council?
All you have to do is make a communication to the City Council at the end of the works, in which you declare that you have the necessary terms of responsibility and that the construction carried out in the store has made it suitable for use as a dwelling.
The municipality has 20 working days to carry out an inspection and confirm that the changes are in accordance with the rules in force.
After this period, if you do not receive any indication to the contrary from the city council, you can use your shop, now home, for housing.

Can you only use it for housing?

The end of the use of the property is at your discretion
Once the conversion is done and the respective inspection by the city council, the fraction becomes a property like any other and you can use it as you wish. This means that you can sell it as a house, rent it out for housing or even turn it into a Local Accommodation.

Do interior works do not require permits?
If all the works to be carried out are only in the interior, without interfering with the façade or structures of common use, it is not necessary to worry about condominium authorisations or licenses to carry them out.