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A little more than a month ago (late July), I wrote to report that a development group I’ve been working with in Panama since early 2014 was launching a new plantation project on the heels of their very successful Lady Victoria mango plantation. Originally, this latest plantation, limes, was planned at 100 hectares. However, those […]
Among the benefits of living an international lifestyle are the arbitrage opportunities you come across. I was reminded of this a couple of weeks ago when we visited with old friends in Waterford, Ireland. Living in Ireland years ago, we found that good-quality antiques were available for bargain prices compared with prices in the States. […]
Property values in Nicaragua began to tumble starting in 2007, even before the global real estate crisis pushed property prices down in markets worldwide. Nicaragua got a jump on its downturn thanks to the results of the 2006 elections. The Sandinista Daniel Ortega won that race, retaking his position as president after a 17-year absence […]
Meanwhile, my real estate portfolio has held steady this week, as it does most weeks. No violent, overnight ups and downs with real estate. Yes, prices can go down, even dramatically, as they did in many markets in 2008/2009. Those downs present buying opportunities… just as this week’s down stock values created buying opportunities for […]
My wife would put it down to luck. I’d say that what in hindsight was almost perfect timing
Panama is, indeed, the Hub of the Americas, and, living in Panama City, you’d think that traveling around Latin America would be easy and cheap. Easy, yes… cheap, not so much. Copa flies to most major cities in Central and South America and continues to expand its destinations in the United States, the Caribbean, and […]
I’m reviewing and clarifying my ideas related to the Five Flags theory of diversification in preparation for my opening remarks at the Wealth Summit I’m hosting in Panama in October. If you’re new to the idea, the Five Flags are to do with residency, citizenship, banking, assets, and business. Not everyone needs all five flags […]
As Mark Twain might have put it, the death of the U.S. dollar has been exaggerated. Or at least prematurely prognosticated. Dollar doom pundits continue to point out all the negative things going on in the United States—stifling debt, exploding credit, polarized political arena, fundamentally unsound fundamentals. And, as a result, they continue to predict […]
Example: Croatia Croatia was a good example of this a decade ago, before this country joined the EU. Back then (which is when I invested here), Croatia imposed a restriction on the foreign purchase of real estate… a form of reciprocity. For you to be able to buy property in Croatia, Croatians had to be […]
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