Can a condominium block your Alojamento Local? The 2026 rules

When a condomínio can oppose or cancel an AL in an apartment building, the majority required, what counts as proven nuisance, and how owners can protect a registration.

The most common question from apartment owners: can my neighbours shut down my AL? The honest answer is sometimes — but not casually, and not by a show of hands at an angry meeting.

Two different things people confuse

Authorisation to register and opposition to an existing AL are separate mechanisms.

For most apartment registrations, the condominium's prior authorisation is not required across the board; what the law has required at various points is authorisation for certain modalities, notably estabelecimentos de hospedagem in a fraction of a building.
Once an AL is operating, the condominium assembly can, by a qualified majority, resolve to oppose the activity on grounds of repeated disturbance to normal use of the building, and ask the municipality to cancel the registration.

The second route needs evidence, not annoyance.

What a valid opposition looks like

A resolution that stands up usually has:

a properly convened assembly with the item on the agenda;
the majority required by the current statute — a substantial majority of the building's permilage, not a simple show of hands;
documented, repeated facts: noise complaints with dates, police call-outs, damage to common parts, rubbish incidents;
notification to the owner and to the municipality.

An assembly cannot retroactively "ban AL" in the building by ordinary resolution if the constitutive title permits the use; changing the constitutive title is a much higher bar and generally needs unanimity.

Charges the condominium can impose

The law allows the assembly to approve an additional contribution to common expenses for fractions used as AL, reflecting heavier wear on lifts, stairs and cleaning. There is a ceiling on how large that surcharge can be, and it must be approved properly. It cannot be a punitive number designed to force you out.

How to protect your registration

1. Read the constitutive title before buying. If it restricts the fraction to housing only, you have a problem no municipality can fix.

2. Attend the assemblies. Most cancellations start with an owner who never shows up.

3. Control the guest side. Quiet hours in your house rules, a written arrival briefing, no parties clauses, and a phone number neighbours can call.

4. Log everything. If a complaint is made, you want dates, guest names and your response on record.

5. Keep the common areas clean. Bin-day failures generate more AL complaints than noise does.

Chave AL's Concierge guest guide lets you put quiet hours, bin days and lift etiquette in front of every guest before arrival — which is both good hosting and, if it ever comes to it, evidence that you took reasonable steps.