Shops - Shop Used, for Sale, in Guimarães, Candoso São Tiago e Mascotelos, Santo Amaro, near School, City Center, Police, Hospital

Commercial store for similar hotels, consisting of 2 divisions, one for storage and two bathrooms, Lugar de Santo Amaro, Guimarães.

This property has a gross private area of 191m2.

It is located in a building in horizontal ownership with 22 fractions.

It is a basement, sub basement, ground floor, 1st and 2nd floors building consisting of shops, houses and garages.

It is located near the Church of Santo Amaro, and in its surrounding area, there are several services and commerce:

Several bus stops (072/073)
Candoso Santiago Children’s Playground
Scorpio Pools
Pedagogical Farm Quinta das Manas
Creixomil at 2 km
3.5 km to Guimarães

This store has the potential to be transformed into housing, under the SIMPLEX URBANISTIC regime!

Size of the fraction and its divisions

According to 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 has facilitated the construction of these structures, namely by removing the obligation to have bidets and bathtubs in the 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.

The works are finished. What now?
Once the conversion of the shop or office into a residential property has been 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.

From shop to home in less than a month !

What to do at the Town Hall?

Request a change of use of the property.

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.

Use of the property is at the discretion of the owner
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.

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.

Even if it is necessary to eliminate a wall, the license can be waived, as long as there is a term of responsibility.

This information does not exempt you from consulting DL 10/2024 and/or the local City Council!