Long-anticipated changes to Portugal’s Golden Visa programme are now law, so from 2022, foreign property investments will be channelled away from prime locations in the more populated coastal cities to inland and island areas. Andrew Rissik, director at Sable International, explains the changes and implications for South Africans moving to Portugal.
How Lisbon wooed the world. One investor at a time By Eleanor Legge-Bourke, in Invest · 30-07-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Meet head of business development for EQTY Capital Michael Maxwell who has excelled in financial services, fund management and corporate services for over 12 years across Portugal and London. Working closely with private clients and introducers from Switzerland, London, Turkey and South Africa, Maxwell is the renegade financial Sherpa worth putting your money on.
Eleanor Legge-Bourke
: Michael Maxwell, you are South African who relocated to Portugal recently. Why Lisbon?
Michael Maxwell: We have always loved Portugal from a lifestyle point of view. It s a country in which I m invested emotionally as well as financially. I saw a great deal of potential in terms of the growth in Portugal, a lot
QP Savills Market Report – July 2021
QP SAVILLS, owned and led by sisters Kerstin Buechner and Alison Hojbjerg and Director of Sales Jamie Robinson, has been the local Savills Associate in the Algarve for over 22 years. With four local offices in Quinta do Lago, Vale do Lobo, Loulé and also at the W Algarve in Galé, where they are the exclusive sales agents. They have a growing local team of 23. Their association within the SAVILLS global network and its 700 worldwide offices put them in an optimal position to comment on their local market with a global perspective.
After so much uncertainty property has become an increasingly important asset class and sanctuary. We report on another interesting and unprecedented 6 months of activity in the market and the unique service we are proud to offer our clients and buyers.
Hand-picked prime offshore investment property launched in Lisbon’s coolest suburb This content is brought to you by Pam Golding International
Reward Properties, a joint venture between Neworld – a European-domiciled property development company established by renowned South African property development specialist, John Rabie, and RE Capital – a Geneva based property investment, development and asset management business headed up by Newman Leech, has teamed up with Pam Golding International to launch an exciting property redevelopment project in one of Lisbon’s coolest live, work, play neighbourhoods, tipped to be the Portuguese capital’s next big tech hub.
John Rabie has four decades of experience in bringing to market numerous successful projects which have created sound return on investment for home buyers across various sectors of the market, while Newman Leech has a successful real estate investment track record in Europe, spanning more than 16 years.
John Rabie has four decades of experience in bringing to market numerous successful projects which have created sound return on investment for home buyers across various sectors of the market, while Newman Leech has a successful real estate investment track record in Europe, spanning more than 16 years.
Pam Golding International has been active in marketing property in Portugal over the past five years, having assisted more than 300 South Africans with property investment and with the Golden Visa Programme.
The collaboration between Reward properties and Pam Golding Properties will initially focus on a development in the vibrant, up-and-coming area of Marvila, well positioned on the eastern fringe of Lisbon between the modern business district of Parque das Nações (Park of Nations) and Lisbon Old Town. The redevelopment project is housed in an architectural masterpiece of a building which was originally used as a winery, and its historical façade will be retained.