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A Colombian seller offering to put a lower number on the deed is not doing you a favour. For a foreign buyer using property as a residency route, it is the most expensive saving on the table.

The requirement is not a peso figure. It is 350 times a number the government resets every December — and it rose 23.7% going into 2026.

Most comparisons line up dollar thresholds side by side. That misses the difference that actually affects you: what the number is pegged to, and whether the route still exists.

The property can be perfect and the application still fails, because of the route your money took to get there. This is the step that cannot be done retroactively.

Standard investment advice says hold real estate in a company. The Colombian investor visa says the property has to be in your name. Both cannot be satisfied.

We are paid when people buy. Here is the case against it anyway, because the version where you buy something wrong helps nobody.