The Greece Golden Visa

The Greece Golden Visa remains one of the best-known routes to residency by investment in the Mediterranean, and its next chapter is taking shape. A five-year, renewable permit for non-EU buyers and their families, with no minimum stay, it now asks €800,000 for a single home in Attica, which takes in Athens and its Riviera, in the Thessaloniki area, on Mykonos and Santorini and on islands of more than 3,100 people, and €400,000 elsewhere in Greece.

Since the reforms of 2024 the home must be one property of at least 120 square metres, and it may not be let as a short-term holiday rental, though long lets are allowed. A €250,000 route remains for turning a commercial building into homes, or for restoring a listed building.

What is new is Greece's National Housing Strategy 2026–2035, approved in July 2026, which proposes a Golden Visa category for investors who hold several homes let on long terms. It needs its own law before anyone can rely on it; until then, for luxury real estate in Europe's south, from Athens to the islands, the present rules stand.