Choose properties on the open market, switch easily between investments if you later change your mind, and pay the same prices as locals.
Foreign investors, retirees, and – in some cases – freelancers and employees can pay a single-digit rate of tax under Greece’s new regimes.
The facts and figures speak for themselves: Greece offers the best deal in the world for residence by investment.
For golden visa investors who buy real estate, the differences between Portugal and Greece are big when all factors are taken into account.
The vast majority of golden visa investors in Greece choose real estate. For many, however, other investment options may be a better choice.
Greece joins Portugal in banning Russians from its golden visa program. Further Western countries are expected to make similar announcements.
Lawyer and PhD candidate Christina Georgaki credits the incumbent administration’s policy changes for driving increasing FDI into Greece.
Like a balloon held under water and the released, the popularity of the Greek golden visa program is once more soaring as the world reopens.
The Greek Golden Visa beat its closest EU rivals by a margin of 20% to officially regain the throne as Europe’s biggest golden visa in 2021.
Approval volumes for the Greek Golden Visa accelerate sharply in the final quarter of 2021, soaring past its Portuguese rival.
Digitally unprepared for COVID, Greece last year ceded the EU golden visa throne to Portugal. Now, the Greeks are back – with a vengeance.
Approvals rise while processing times plummet. After a terrible 2020, the Greek Golden Visa is back in business. “The future looks bright,” says Panos Rozakis.
How to make sure you buy a property with potential, whether financial or in terms of lifestyle, when investing in the Greek golden visa.
The revision indicates that while 2020 was still a dismal year for the program, it was 133% better than previously signaled.
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Though approval volumes were down across the board, the differences in performance varied sharply, from -4% to -92%.
Several hundred thousand UK citizens own homes in Spain, Portugal, and Greece worth enough to qualify for golden visas, retroactively.
Despite a flurry of program-enhancing policy changes, the Greek golden visa’s performance in 2020 was lackluster compared to Portugal’s. Why?
Laboring under a pandemic, Greek bureaucrats might have been excused were it not for the starkly contrasting performance of Portuguese peers.
While approvals for Portugal’s golden visa are already back on track for a statistically normal year, those of Greece have halted.