The variety of Greek Golden Visas issued elevated by greater than 31% for the reason that begin of the yr, with notably excessive demand from residents of China, Turkey, and Israel, in accordance with evaluation from worldwide property consultancy.
A complete of 17,254 Golden Visas had been issued in July 2025, marking a month-on-month enhance of 5.7%. That is the most important month-to-month enhance of the previous 12 months, and maintains a file of constant progress courting all the way in which again to October 2024.
Suzanna Uzakova, senior advisor for residency and citizenship programmes at Astons, mentioned: “Demand for Greek Golden Visas has been rising for a very long time, and the Greek authorities has confirmed amenable to issuing visas because of the enhance that they supply to the nationwide economic system.
“Lots of the international nationals acquiring Greek citizenship are rich people whose funding into the nation helps to additional bolster the native enterprise and actual property markets, nevertheless it’s not simply the arrival of HNWIs that the Greek authorities is occupied with.”
Greece’s Golden Visa is without doubt one of the most accessible in Europe, with funding necessities beginning at simply €250,000, offering the cash goes in direction of industrial actual property that’s transformed into residential dwellings.
Residents of Turkey have seen the largest enhance within the variety of visas issued, rising by virtually 80% (79.2%) between January and July 2025.
Israelis have seen a rise of 42.1%, adopted by residents of China (27.8%), the USA (27.3%), and the UK (25%).
Expat retirees who need to relocate to Greece pay a flat 7% earnings tax charge on international pensions for as much as 15 years.
In the meantime, excessive web price people are topic to a flat annual tax of €100,000 utilized to all foreign-sourced taxable earnings, with an choice to incorporate members of the family for an extra €20,000 per individual.
