Colombia
Visa M Inversionista, property route. COP 612,816,750.
Residency by investment, after the European exits
The number you are budgeting against is probably wrong.
Spain closed its investor visa in April 2025. Portugal removed property from its golden visa in October 2023. Greece raised the Athens threshold to EUR 800,000. The money went looking for somewhere else, and the English language research it found was already out of date.
Colombia, investor visa, property route
USD 195,884COP 612,816,750, which is 350 monthly minimum wages
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Converted at 3,128 COP per USD
(official rate of 17 September 2026)
Why every site quotes a different number for the same visa
Colombia does not set its investor visa threshold in dollars. It sets it at 350 monthly minimum wages, and the minimum wage is re set by decree every January.
For 2026 that wage is COP 1,750,905, so the legal requirement is COP 612,816,750. Then the peso appreciated about 17 percent across the year. The law did not move. The price in dollars did, by roughly forty thousand of them.
Pages published earlier in 2026 put that same unchanged peso figure at USD 153,000, at 155,000 to 165,000, at 161,300 and at 170,000. Today it converts to close to USD 196,000. Nobody is lying. They each converted once, on the day they hit publish, and never came back.
If you budgeted against a number you read in February, you are short. That is the entire reason this site exists. It converts at the official rate on page load and stamps the result with the time it was read, and when the January wage decree lands, every figure here moves the same week.
Colombia, all four thresholds
Indexed to the 2026 minimum wage of COP 1,750,905, set by Decreto 1469 of 29 December 2025, restated transitionally by Decreto 0159 of 19 February 2026.
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| Route | Multiple | In pesos | Converted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property | 350 SMMLV | COP 612,816,750 | USD |
| Title in your own name, declared value on the escritura at or above the threshold, and the purchase registered as foreign investment with the Banco de la Republica. | |||
| Foreign direct investment | 650 SMMLV | COP 1,138,088,250 | USD |
| The alternative proof, not an addition. Registered direct investment in your own name instead of a property. You use one prong or the other. | |||
| Company partner or owner | 100 SMMLV | COP 175,090,500 | USD |
| A different visa category entirely, the Visa M Socio o Propietario. Paid in capital, documented. Do not confuse it with the investor visa. | |||
| Pension or remote income | 3 SMMLV | COP 5,252,715 | USD |
| Monthly, not one time. The pension and digital nomad categories, included here because the same wage figure drives them. | |||
Open the full calculator to run your own purchase price against the threshold, including the gap if you are short.
Where you can still buy residency
Eighteen programs, their real status today, and what each one actually grants. Not a listicle of countries with beaches.
| Program | Status | Threshold | In your currency | What it grants | Stay requirement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ColombiaVisa M Inversionista, property route | Open | COP 612,816,750350 SMMLV, recalculated every January | USD 195,884 | Temporary migrant visa, up to 3 years | Lapses after 180 consecutive days abroad |
| EcuadorVisa de residencia temporal inversionista | Open | USD 48,200100 SBU, recalculated every January | USD 48,200 | Temporary, 2 years, renewable | Multiple entry, no published absence cap |
| ParaguayInvestor Pass, real estate route | Open | USD 200,000Real estate track, applicable from 30 percent paid | USD 200,000 | Direct permanent residency | In person filing, then light |
| BrazilReal estate residence authorization | Open | BRL 700,000 to BRL 1,000,000700,000 in the North and Northeast, 1,000,000 elsewhere | Roughly USD 135,000 to USD 196,000 | Temporary residence, convertible to permanent | Light, commonly cited at 14 days per 2 years |
| Costa RicaInversionista residency | Repriced | USD 200,000Reverted from USD 150,000 on 15 July 2026 | USD 200,000 | Temporary, renewable, permanent at year 3 | Real presence expected at renewal |
| PanamaQualified Investor Visa | Open, disputed | USD 300,000Real estate route, held five years | USD 300,000 | Permanent residency from day one | One entry every two years |
Read the program, not the brochure
Ecuador
Visa de residencia temporal inversionista. USD 48,200.
Paraguay
Investor Pass, real estate route. USD 200,000.
Brazil
Real estate residence authorization. BRL 700,000 to BRL 1,000,000.
Costa Rica
Inversionista residency. USD 200,000.
Panama
Qualified Investor Visa. USD 300,000.
Illustrative imagery throughout. No image depicts a specific property, building or address.
What this site is
Research, dated
Every threshold carries the law or decree that sets it and the date we last checked it. Where sources genuinely conflict, such as the Panama sunset question, we say they conflict instead of picking the version that sells better.
An introduction, not a service
We are not lawyers and we do not process applications. We introduce people to immigration lawyers and to brokers who have closed for foreign buyers, and we are paid for the introduction. That is disclosed when it happens.
A house view
We think Colombia is the best value property linked residency in the Americas right now for people who intend to actually live somewhere. We also tell you the three situations where it is the wrong answer.
Find out whether your budget clears a real threshold
Tell us the budget, the goal and the timeline. If Colombia fits, we introduce you to an immigration lawyer and a broker who has closed for foreign buyers before. If it does not fit, we say so and point you at the program that does.