move&invest

Guides & Research

Worked through, sourced, and dated

Guides that follow one decision to the end, and research on what has changed in the rules of the five jurisdictions this site covers. Every entry lists the sections of our sources page its figures were checked against, and carries the date it was written — because a threshold that was right in August may not be in March, and an article that does not say when it was written is asking to be believed on trust.

  • Property

    Which countries still give residency for buying property in 2026

    Buying property gets you residency in far fewer places than the advertising suggests. Portugal removed property from its qualifying routes in 2023, Greece raised the threshold to €800,000 across half the country, and on Malta the property is one of five payments rather than the route itself. Five jurisdictions read against the statute: thresholds, the full cost on top of the threshold, real processing times, and the restrictions that get a permit revoked.

    Jurisdictions pt · gr · mt · ae · cy

What gets published here

Two kinds of thing. Guides that work one decision through end to end — what a route actually costs once the government fees, the lawyer and the purchase taxes are counted, rather than what the advertised threshold says. And research: what changed in a statute, when it changed, and which of the figures elsewhere on this site moved with it.

Why every entry names its sources

Each one carries a line under its opening paragraph listing the sections of our sources page its figures were checked against. That line is not decoration. A threshold quoted without a statute number is indistinguishable from a threshold somebody remembered wrong, and the difference tends to surface only after it has cost someone money.

Why every entry carries a date

Because the answer expires. Greece redrew its property thresholds by zone; Portugal removed property as a qualifying route altogether. An undated article about either is worse than no article, because it reads as current and is not. Where an entry has been revised, the date of the revision is shown beside the date it was written.

What is deliberately not here

No aggregated news. No pieces written to occupy a search term. Nothing at all until there is something worth saying — and if that keeps the list short, the list stays short.