Europe
Bought for status and jurisdiction, not for return.
- Role in a portfolio
- Jurisdiction and residency
- Foreign ownership
- A separate regime in every country
Europe is not a market but a dozen markets with different rules, and generalising here is riskier than anywhere else on this page. They share exactly one thing: nobody buys in Europe for yield. Rent to price sits below Dubai, ownership and gains are taxed, and entry into the desirable locations is expensive. The motive is different — jurisdiction, the right to stay, a school for the children, currency diversification.
A warning about dates. Investor programmes have been rewritten twice in three years: property was removed from the Portuguese golden visa, the Spanish programme was closed outright, Greek thresholds went up. Any video or article about European residency through property has to be read together with its date — including ours.
So on Europe we do not publish "buy and receive" schemes. We look at specific projects and at what is visible in them: the building, the developer, the location, the payment mechanics. Status is verified against the law in force on the day of the transaction, and that is work for a lawyer in the country of purchase.
The caveat: Residency rules change faster than reviews are published. Check the date on anything you read, this page included.
Other locations
Comparing this market with Dubai
Tell me the budget, the horizon and what the purchase is for. Where the answer is Dubai I will say so with numbers from our own stock; where it is not, I will say that too.