Opportunities and benefits of investing in Ukraine

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Ukraine and the entire Intermarium region is an attractive area for investors due to the availability of natural and labor resources, an educated and economically active population, high-quality infrastructure and presence of the economic niches with low level of competition.

For a foreign citizen investing an amount of 100,000 euros or more, the following opportunities are open:

• obtaining a permanent residence permit, which gives all the same rights that citizens of Ukraine have, except for participation in elections, voting and holding public positions
• the presence of a company registered in accordance with Ukrainian legislation, and, accordingly, the possibility of conducting business, concluding contracts with counterparties and expanding into the Ukrainian market;
• the possibility of receiving regular income from the investment object, for example, if it is a commercial, residential or warehouse property for rent.

If a foreign citizen belongs to the migration risk countries, then in addition to the above-mentioned advantages of investing and doing business in the Ukrainian jurisdiction, it is also an easy opportunity to obtain Schengen visas and visas to the USA, Great Britain, and Canada thanks to the presence of a Ukrainian permanent residence permit, since citizens of African and Asian countries, it will be much easier to get a Schengen visa with such a document than, for example, in the case of living in Ukraine as a student.

Despite of all the risks and hostilities that are still going on in the East and South of Ukraine, now is the best time to invest, due to the relatively low entry threshold, falling prices for real estate and other investment objects, and lower competition. Immediately after the end of martial law, the prices for the same real estate will not only reach the pre-war level, although this is already relevant for regional centres in the West of Ukraine, but will also increase by at least 20% only in the first post-war year due to the return of a large number of Ukrainian refugees and temporary asylum seekers , as well as an influx of investors who will intensively buy assets in anticipation of rapid economic growth and the possibility of further income generation. Accordingly, there will be a steadily growing demand among buyers for hundreds of thousands of square meters of real estate and millions of hectares of land in the center of Europe.

In the context of buying land, it is now the easiest and most relevant to buy land for development, since in the period of post-war reconstruction there will be a stable demand for land for houses, residential complexes, warehouses, logistics and industrial complexes, especially in large cities and surrounding villages, united with them in economic and logistic agglomerations.

There is an increased interest of foreigners in agricultural land, but now in Ukraine there is a moratorium on the purchase of agricultural land by foreigners, and in order to make such a purchase, it is necessary to register a company where one of the co-owners will be a citizen of Ukraine – a partner or trustee. At the same time, if such restrictions are lifted, foreigners will have a full opportunity to independently invest in agricultural land and access to the world’s best soils, which, in the conditions of constant growth of the global population and the need for agro-industrial products, guarantees a quick return on investment and stable profits.

Subject to professional legal and financial support of investors, foreigners can receive the benefits of resident status in Ukraine and obtain a stable economic basis for living and doing business in Ukraine.