Spain golden visa: what is left after it ended in April 2025
It no longer exists. Spain's golden visa, the investor residence visa most people obtained by buying property, stopped being granted on 3 April 2025 under Organic Law 1/2025.
What the consulates show today
The consular services menu of London, Manchester and Edinburgh still lists «National visas – Investor visa», and choosing it returns no consular service found for those criteria, in all three. That empty page is what keeps the searches coming.
And there is a loose end worth knowing: the 2026 fee list in pounds of London and Manchester still carries a line for investor visas at £1,884.00 for British nationals. A fee on a list does not mean the route is open: the service page is the one to trust.
What is left for people with capital
The entrepreneur visa, for a business project in Spain, and the highly qualified professional visa remain in the catalogue, as do the researcher and intra-company transfer visas. They carry different requirements: none is a golden visa under another name.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Route closed | 3 April 2025 |
| Law | Organic Law 1/2025 |
| Consular page | no service, in all three consulates |
| Line on the 2026 list | £1,884.00 |
The realistic alternative
If the plan was to live in Spain without working there, today's route is the non-lucrative visa: income of 400% of the IPREM, private health insurance and a clean criminal record, with no purchase needed. If you will keep working remotely, the digital nomad visa.
If you will live without working, the non-lucrative visa does not require buying anything.Related guides
Checked against the official pages on 10 November 2026.
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