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The Golden Visa Club: profile of the world's most affluent buyers

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Tranio

Immigration investment programmes attract more and more wealthy people each year. This new class is mainly from BRICS countries that are struggling to maintain vibrant growth of previous decades. With Golden Visa programmes gaining in popularity, Tranio experts investigate what nations are feeding this asset-rich flow and which countries are capitalising on their wealth. Get the full report here.

 

Economic and political instability push emerging market entrepreneurs to emigrate

Preferential immigration for investors: more than fifty countries grant investment-based residence permits. The most popular programmes are found the USA, UK, Latvia, Hungary, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Malta, Greece and Ireland.

 

Nationality and destination of funds: increased demand can be attributed to the wealth accumulated in emerging economies now threatened by sluggish growth and internal political struggles. These programmes cater to the world’s new High-Net-Worth-Individuals.

 

Leading programmes in the US and UK: the US remains the undisputed leader in investor visas, the number of which is limited by quota: 10,000 EB-5 Visas per year in exchange for investments that set up businesses and generate employment.

 

Money matters: the main criterion for investors, no matter the nation, is cost. For example, in France where the minimum investment is €10 million, only fourteen residence permits were issued over the four years of the programme.

 

Driving up real estate prices: preferential programmes have left their mark on estate markets and the influx of wealthy migrants has affected the property markets of major countries.

 

Outlook: As it stands in this year’s close, the most famous investor nationalities are heading down to separate paths. In New York, the recent inflow of Chinese capital has pushed up the prices of prime commercial property, spurring rumours of a possible bubble to come. This information is available on Tranio.

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Kevin J. May
Florida Supreme Realty - Hobe Sound, FL
Serving the Treasure & Paradise Coasts of Florida

So glad to have stumbled upon this post and link Marina. The EB 5 agenda has real estate as the by-product instead of the primary target. Time will tell!

Sep 30, 2015 12:28 AM
Marina Filichkina
Tranio - San Diego, CA
Head of Sales at Tranio.com

Hi Kevin! I suppose if the EB-5 program creates businesses and jobs, it will improve growth prospects for America leading to the rather basic formula of:

 

more employment = more sales on the residential market as a whole

 

On the other markets (excluding the UK), the governments often exchange property for residence rights but this really just directly serves the real estate market and even that is quite short-term. It doesn’t contribute to boosting the rest of the economy aside from taxes and trickle down consumerism. So, I guess as far as the EB-5 program goes, that’s makes me an optimist, right? J

Sep 30, 2015 04:26 PM