“Still So Much Uncertainty Around Mobility”: 10 on the Weekend – Patricia Casaburi
Patricia Casaburi plans to expand into the Caribbean, admires Bruno L’ecuyer, and feels blessed to have spent the pandemic in Portugal.
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How Portugal’s Real Estate Market Has Performed During the Pandemic So Far
Portugal’s property market is among Europe’s most internationalized, which has made its reaction to the pandemic atypical, writes Patricia Casaburi.
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Chinese Investors’ Share of Portugal Golden Visa in Q1 at Highest Level Since 2016
The Chinese dominated the golden visa during the early years before falling to a record-low in 2020. In 2021, they are returning in force.
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Podcast: Pandemic’s Lessons for IM Programs and the Impact of a North Macedonian CIP
Crunch time for EB-5, the North Macedonian surprise, why Canada makes immigration so hard, business as usual in the Caribbean, and much more.
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“Constant Legislative Pressure” a Big Obstacle for IM Programs: 10 on The Weekend – Hakan Kodal
Hakan Kodal says program legislation “should be shielded from political meddling and infighting within parliaments, which is only wasteful.”
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Portugal Golden Visa on Track to Reach 10,000 Investors Milestone in Q3, Fund Option Uptake Accelerates
As Portugal nears an historic milestone, February brings encouraging results: A 43% YoY improvement and an 82% uptick from January.
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“Very Little Actually Changed”: Why Portugal Decided to Allow Golden Visa Investment in Cities After All
“The government realized that the problem wasn’t real estate [as such]. The real problem was real estate in specific locations.”
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Portugal’s Golden Visa Moving Inland: How to Navigate the Transition and Get High Returns
As Portugal’s golden visa real estate inland, capital will move with it. Here’s how to identify the new property hotspots before they take off.
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American Golden Visa Investors Today, British Tomorrow: 10 on the Weekend – Sara Sousa Rebolo
Americans used to ask Sara Sousa Rebolo if Portugal’s buildings had elevators and air conditioning. Now, they line up to get Portuguese residency.
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How to Choose the Right Fund for the Portugal Golden Visa
Charles Taylor Harris shares the lessons he and his colleagues learned while analyzing 25 different golden visa investment funds.
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Europe’s Golden Visa Performance in 2020: A Mixed Picture
Though approval volumes were down across the board, the differences in performance varied sharply, from -4% to -92%.
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Portugal Publishes New Golden Visa Minimums – Fund, Deposit Routes Costlier From Jan. ’22
Big changes, also to prices, are coming to Portugal’s golden visa in January. See our interactive map to find out if your municipality qualifies for real estate investment.
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The Billion-Dollar Low-Margin Market of Post-Brexit Retroactive Golden Visas
Several hundred thousand UK citizens own homes in Spain, Portugal, and Greece worth enough to qualify for golden visas, retroactively.
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Slow Start to Portugal’s Golden Visa Year amid First Large Wave of Infections
As Portugal battles its first serious wave of infections, the country’s golden visa program is finally feeling the impact of the pandemic.
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Why Lourinhã Offers Family-Oriented Golden Visa Applicants the Best Investment Option
Just an hour north of Lisbon is a quiet beach town that offers an ideal location from which to start a new life at much lower prices than in the capital.
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Why Did Greece’s Golden Visa Performance Fall So Far Behind Portugal’s in 2020? Two Experts Answer
Despite a flurry of program-enhancing policy changes, the Greek golden visa’s performance in 2020 was lackluster compared to Portugal’s. Why?
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Greek Golden Visa Approvals Fell Nearly 90% in 2020, Portugal’s By 5%
Laboring under a pandemic, Greek bureaucrats might have been excused were it not for the starkly contrasting performance of Portuguese peers.
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Only Chinese and Brazilians Got More Portuguese Golden Visas Than Americans in 2020
“For some, it is dissatisfaction with Trump; for others, it’s apprehensions about Biden,” says Lisbon-based lawyer Patricia Valadas Coriel.
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Closure of Cyprus CIP “a Great Travesty”: 10 on the Weekend – Steven Pepa
Steven Pepa, who admires Mohammed Asaria, believes matching investor migrants with private equity funds can make the latter more humane.
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Govt. Confirms Golden Visa Days Numbered for Cities: Not Necessarily Bad News, Say Stakeholders
A transition period that will see the exclusion of metropolitan and coastal areas from the program will begin on July 1st next year.
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