Greece

Golden visa (real estate). Residence through Greek property investment, tiered by location since the 2024 reform: €800,000 in Athens, Thessaloniki and the larger islands; €400,000 elsewhere; €250,000 for restoring a heritage building or converting commercial space.

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Golden visa (real estate)

A 5-year residence permit, renewable while the property is retained, with no minimum-stay requirement; covers spouse, children under 21, and both sets of parents.

Who qualifies

€800,000 minimum, single property of at least 120 m², in Attica (Athens and environs), Thessaloniki, Mykonos, Santorini, and any Greek island with a population over 3,100 at the 2021 census.
Law 4251/2014, Art. 126, as amended by Law 5100/2024, in force 31 August 2024
€400,000 minimum, at least 120 m², in all other areas of Greece.
Law 5100/2024 amendments to Law 4251/2014
€250,000, no size minimum, for converting a non-residential building to residential use or restoring a listed/heritage building, anywhere in Greece.
Law 5100/2024 amendments to Law 4251/2014

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

Savings you could move or invest?

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Investment: About $440,000.
Time: 4–8 months from purchase to residence-card issuance.
Cost: About $20,000–40,000 beyond the property: transfer tax (~3%), legal fees, and permit fees.
The hard part: Meeting the €800,000 tier in Athens or the larger islands, which more than doubled the old €250,000 threshold in the 2024 reform.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

Citizens by 2035.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

2027
First residence permit
5 years, renewable for 5 years at a time.
2032
Permanent residence
Five years of legal, continuous residence (absences under 6 months in a row and 10 months in total are allowed), enough income, full health insurance, and integration: Greek schooling, a B1 language certificate, or the special state certificate based on an A2 Greek plus Greek history and culture exam.
2034
Apply for citizenship
With a language test and a civics test.
2035
Citizenship

Language: Greek at about B1, tested in the written part of the naturalisation exam (the PEGP).
Civics: The PEGP exam (Certificate of Adequacy of Knowledge for Naturalisation), run twice a year: Greek language plus Greek geography, history, culture and political institutions. Pass mark 70%.
Time away: Seven years of lawful residence in a row immediately before applying. The law sets no day count, but the years must be real residence under a permit type the Citizenship Code accepts; long stays abroad can lead to refusal.
Two passports: Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

The Citizenship Code expressly accepts the permanent investor permit, but naturalisation still requires seven years of real residence, economic and social integration, and the PEGP exam; the permit’s no-minimum-stay rule does not waive those tests.
How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.

The law behind these dates

Living there.

Time you must spend there: No minimum-stay requirement to keep the permit.
Tax: Golden-visa holders are not automatically Greek tax residents unless they exceed 183 days/year; many hold the permit without becoming tax resident.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

Start today.

Identify a qualifying property and file through a Greek immigration lawyer with the Ministry of Migration.Open migration.gov.gr ↗
Gather these documents.
- Proof of the funds to invest: about $440,000, and where they came from
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health cover for the move
- Get the AFM (Greek tax number)

Postern can run this for you.

$900for your first year as a founding member. Then $399 a year, automatically.One membership, the whole family. Bank accounts and help putting your plan into action are included.

Postern runs it for a single adult US citizen legally in Greece after buying sole ownership of one Attica residential property for at least €800,000, with at least 120 m² main floor area: the investor permit, biometric card and each five-year renewal while the property remains held without prohibited letting.

18 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 4 of them: send what we ask for, sign, and show up. We run the rest, and keep every permit renewed on time. Opening your bank accounts there is included, whether you move now or keep the plan ready. Government fees, record fees and other costs you approve are extra.

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