Coronavirus Profits As the death toll ticks up, traditional investors don't know how to treat the spread of the coronavirus. Most investors are experiencing one heck of a roller-coaster ride. Good thing we're not most investors. Cash-flowing global property investments—especially productive land investments—are looking smarter than ever right now. Meantime, the good ole American dollar [...]
What Frank Lloyd Wright Taught Me About Other People’s Money My first real estate purchase was in Chicago. I was renting in a three-flat when the owner sent a notice to all the tenants informing them he was listing the property for sale. It was a Frank Lloyd Wright building. My apartment was big, the [...]
What’s This About A U.S. Wealth Tax? It’s that time of year again… It’s tax season. Thankfully, no big changes for U.S. tax filers this year. However, one big potential tax change is being discussed among the Democratic presidential nominees—a wealth tax. Each presidential hopeful suggesting the United States begin taxing its “wealthy” has his [...]
Latin Beauties And A Police Shoot-out I traveled to Ecuador for the first time in 1999. This was before the country dollarized. The sucre fell from about 7,000 to the U.S. dollar to 24,000 to the U.S. dollar that year. Meantime, El Niño had devastated Ecuador's coastal regions, contributing to the economic chaos. Chaos breeds [...]
Portugal’s NHR Tax Program Is Undergoing Changes—Here’s What You Need To Know Many readers have written to me over the last couple of months asking for confirmation and clarification of rumors they’ve read online about changes to Portugal’s Non-Habitual Residency (NHR) tax program. I’ve seen the articles myself. Some say the NHR is being eliminated [...]
This Market Is Uniquely Positioned To Benefit From The Exploding Global Demands For Food And Fuel Our planet is home to more than 7.7 billion people. The United Nations estimates another billion in the next 10 years and a total of nearly 10 billion by mid-century. At the same time, the global middle class is [...]
My Annual Global Property Survey Reveals... About this time every year, with the help of fellow global property investor Lee Harrison, I take a snapshot of property prices worldwide. Our annual survey shows where values are rapidly appreciating... or collapsing. It identifies emerging bargain markets and shows which formerly undervalued destinations are becoming too expensive [...]
I've Tripled My Money In This Market And Am Diving Back In For More If you're holding U.S. dollars, you have a window of opportunity right now to take advantage of super-charged buying power in key overseas markets. The dollar's current strength is creating irresistible bargains in some countries where real estate trades in the [...]
4 Predictions As We Embark On A New Decade So… we’re starting the ‘20s. Before we consider what this new decade might look like, let’s take a look at the ‘10s and what they brought. At the start of last decade, offshore and investment gurus were calling for the collapse of the U.S. dollar. The [...]
4 Ways To Sell Your Overseas Property For Top Dollar When I sold the three-flat investment property in Chicago in 1998, marking the start of my overseas property investment career, the Windy City market was overheated. I listed the property at an inflated price relative to going market rates, thinking I was allowing myself room [...]
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