World Borders Are Closing... Here's What You Need To Know When the doors closed, they closed fast and hard. Panama has stopped all flights from Europe and Asia. Germany has closed its land borders to all traffic except goods and people commuting for work. Poland had already closed its border with Germany in an effort [...]
If This Week's Blood Bath Isn't Showing You The Importance Of Diversifying Offshore, I Don't Know What Will Our son Jackson came to spend Christmas and his winter break with us in Paris. He was due to return to NYU Shanghai to finish his sophomore year the first of February. He didn't because, at the [...]
Coronavirus, The Tokyo Olympics, The Copa America 2020, And Other Strategies For Spiking Rental Returns To identify the ideal rental property for investment overseas, first you consider the market and satisfy yourself that it's got legs and upside... Then you evaluate the specific property's expected income, expenses, and return on investment... Finally, you research and [...]
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 [...]
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