Golden Visa

An asset management company led by entrepreneur João Cota Dias has launched a new fund which aims to net €100 million from Portuguese and overseas investors. It will be the second venture capital [...]

Portugal’s government has decided to retain the Golden Visa programme for investors in venture capital funds. It means that while direct investment in real estate is now no longer eligible in [...]

Portugal’s Golden Visa programme did make it difficult for Portuguese nationals to have access to housing at affordable rates because it inflated house prices. This is according to a report [...]

Investment through Portugal’s Golden Visa programme more than doubled in March to €78.4 million and increased 42% in the second quarter according to Lusa basing its calculations on data from the [...]

The President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, has written a letter to the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa calling for a stay of termination for the [...]

The Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors (APPII) says that the Government’s decision to end Golden Visas is not legally valid and will likely cause a wave of lawsuits. [...]

Portugal’s Golden Visa will now only be granted to overseas entrepreneurs who invest by setting up a business in the country. It will be the only exception after the Government announced in [...]

The Portuguese Association of Venture Capital (APCRI) has slammed the ‘blind termination” of the country’s Golden Visa programme. It says that Portugal is a country that needs to attract a lot of [...]

The Canadian developer Mercan says the government’s decision to end the Golden Visa programme threatens €425 million of investment. The company has 27 hotel projects in Portugal, and believes [...]

The Portuguese Government has made it clear this week that any applications for Golden Visas submitted after March 16 have no guarantee that they will be considered, and that when the law comes [...]