22-05-2025
The end of Spain's golden visa: winners, losers and how to move now
Kelly Scales from East Sussex discovered that she'd been granted a Spanish golden visa just six days after the country's residency-by-investment scheme ended on April 3.
Although she had dreamt of moving to Spain for nine years, it was only after selling her short-term rentals business last year that she was able to purchase a property over the €500,000 minimum investment — but it was a rush to beat the deadline.
'In my wildest imagination I never dreamt that I might buy a house on January 1, complete on February 20 and then get my visa in three weeks,' says Scales, 54, whose three-bedroom property is in Competa, a quintessential white village in the mountains, half an hour from the Andalusian coast.
'I've been navigating
