First-Half 2020 Investment in Portugal’s Golden Visa Already 52% of 2019 Total
A prognosis that two months ago might have seemed absurd is starting to look realistic: 2020 could be a record year for Portugal’s golden visa.
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Pandemic Pummels Greek Golden Visa in Q2, But Policy Changes Offer Promise of Comeback in Q3
New procedural measures will make remote-application feasible and boost application volumes, but they did not take effect in time to save Q2.
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Why Portugal Will Rebound Far Better From the Crisis Than Competing RCBI Programs
Portugal handled the crisis better than most of its peers and are seeing its golden visa program soar in popularity as a consequence.
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Stakeholders Lobby for €250,000 Spanish Golden Visa as Investment Slumps
“We have proposed to the Government to halve the amount of investment in housing,” says the head of the country’s developers’ association.
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Historic Comeback for Portugal Golden Visa: May 2020 Best Month on Record
Back with a vengeance: May approvals alone exceeded those of the preceding four months combined as the program raised a historic EUR 147 million.
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10 on the Weekend – Alexander Risvas: Greek Golden Visa is a “National Effort”
Alexander Risvas, perhaps thanks to his penchant for the works of self-help gurus like Tony Robbins and Napoleon Hill, is optimistic in spite of COVID.
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Pandemic Has Robbed Greek and Portuguese Golden Visas of Nearly EUR 300 Million So Far
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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Italy Halves Minimum Investment of “La Dolce Visa” to EUR 250,000 – But Will Investors Bite?
The new minimum places Italy’s investment low end of the cost-spectrum among European golden visas but also calls for a much higher level of risk tolerance.
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Weak Q3 Expected for Greek Golden Visa, But Flurry of Reforms May Bring a Roaring Q4
The government is heeding the advice of practitioners and speeding up golden visa processing. Their zeal, unfortunately, isn’t matched by local authorities.
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Greek Amendments to Reduce Golden Visa Investment Risk, Demand Physical Presence for FIP-Visas
In practice, the changes enable investors to pay for the property from abroad, rather than by first opening a Greek bank account, without excess risk.
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Russia Reveals Plans for Real Estate-Based Residence by Investment Program
The government is actively studying best practices among European residence by investment programs with an eye to launching their own in July 2021.
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Investment in Portugal’s Golden Visa Stable Despite Pandemic, Interest in VC-Option Gathers Steam
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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Greece to “Jump-Start” Golden Visa Program, Allow Investors to Apply by Proxy
“To accelerate the course of growth in the coming months, we will seek to lift the bureaucratic obstacles that currently exist in the property market.”
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Shock-Figures Show Greek Golden Visa Hardest Hit by COVID-19
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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Weighed Down by Pandemic, Investment in Portugal’s Golden Visa Falls to 21-Month Low
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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Greek Immigration Offices Close Over Covid-19 – Others Will Follow
Sneer not at the Italians, for there, but for the grace of about two weeks, go the rest of us.
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ECAA-Visas, The Turkish CIP’s Secret Weapon, May Be Living on Borrowed Time
The Home Office saw 52% YoY growth in Turkish Businessperson Visas in 2019. Brexit’s releasing the UK from its Ankara Agreement obligations has something to do with it.
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Malaysia’s MM2H World’s Largest Investor Visa in 2019 Following Record Year
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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Spain’s Golden Visa Program Now Bigger Than Portugal’s After Record 2019
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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As EU Citizens Lose Settlement Rights in UK, Tier 1 Visa’s Future Looks Bright
Next year, EU citizens will no longer have automatic settlement-rights in the UK. This widens the Tier 1 visa’s target demographic by 11m European HNWIs.
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