The Investment Migration Knowledge Platform
Vanuatu rakes in record CBI-revenue and spends it on emergency relief. The new chairman hints at the introduction of real estate investment options.
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Greece and Portugal’s golden visa programs have missed out on 800 applications and investment equivalent to a small country’s GDP due to the pandemic.
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“The UK could lose over £350m of foreign direct investment if universities move classes online during the next academic year,” Farzin Yazdi estimates.
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What pandemic? Even during the worst month of the COVID-19 outbreak, Portugal’s golden visa program raised more than EUR 28 million, fresh figures show.
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The net drop in the number of accredited agents worldwide represents the first significant reduction since we began measuring at the end of 2018.
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Even among those whose portfolios have taken a painful beating, willingness to consider RCBI programs has held up well.
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Malta, with only three deaths, 444 cases, and fourth in the world in terms of tests-per-million, is clearly setting an example for others to follow.
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Q1 figures show Greece – where China has been the source of four-fifths of applicants over the last year – have been disproportionately slammed.
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But the upward trend of applicants choosing alternative investments was once more confirmed in March, rising to a record 28% of the total.
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Survey respondents also thought EU residence programs stood to benefit the most from the pandemic fallout, while more than half said inquiries had dropped.
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Investors filed 7,904 applications for the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) program in 2019. But minimum property prices for foreigners represent a quandary.
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Figures from Spain’s Ministry of Labor shows the country’s golden visa program approved a record 1,422 main applicants in 2019, up from 1,188 last year.
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Having more than tripled in two years, revenues from CBI are already the country’s main income source and may soon make up more than 50% of the total.
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One novel development was apparent, though; for the first time since records began, Chinese investors were not the leading applicant cohort.
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Long-standing political uncertainty over Brexit and the general election now settled, investors are once more turning to the UK in greater numbers.
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The COVID-19 outbreak has put health front and center among investor migrant concerns. How does your RCBI-country stack up in the health security index?
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Latvia’s residence by investment program logged marginal gains in 2019, but Vietnamese appetite for the business investment option remains strong.
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A sharp uptick in real estate investment and drastically improved processing saw the program raise EC$166 million in 2019, 13% more than its 2018 record.
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Thailand’s Elite Residence Program again broke records in 2019, growing its member-base by 2,149 individuals, or 28% more than the 1,679 it added last year.
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Having already beaten all European records in 2018, there was little left for Greece to outperform in 2019 but its own achievements, which it did by 34%.
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