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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“Always Been a Bit of a News Junkie” – 10 on the Weekend: Jerry Morgan
“With nine hotels in […] development, we are keeping a close eye on the trends for the recovery,” writes Mercan Group’s Jerry Morgan.
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Americans Among Fastest Growing Applicant Groups for Portugal’s Golden Visa in 2020
Americans have been among the top-five applicant nationalities in each monthly report during the second half of 2020.
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“We’ve Never Had So Many Inquiries”: 10 on the Weekend – Patricia Valadas Coriel
Patricia Valadas Coriel is surprised that citizens of the world’s most powerful nation have such a strong interest in relocating to Portugal.
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Second Wave Stymies Portugal Golden Visa Investment in October
Presuming the COVID flare-up is the primary cause of the slowdown, golden visa investment volumes are unlikely to recover before 2021.
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Portugal to Allow Birthright Citizenship From Tomorrow: Major Win for Golden Visa
Starting tomorrow, children born to a foreign parent who has lived in Portugal for a year will be eligible for citizenship at birth.
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Despite Slowdown From August, Portugal’s Golden Visa Records Best September Yet
So far, 2020 has been a statistically unremarkable year for Portugal’s golden visa; no mean feat considering this year’s global context.
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10 on The Weekend – Inês Azevedo: “Never Seen So Many Americans Desperate For a Plan B”
Inês Azevedo says that, because of shifting COVID-rules, “I sometimes feel that my clients are like Tom Hanks in the movie The Terminal.”
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