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“Any overseas property investment you make should be safe, simple, enjoyable, and profitable…” –Jeff Matthews at this week’s Global Property Summit Why would you want to buy a piece of real estate overseas? That’s where we began the discussions during the opening presentations for Lief Simon’s Global Property Summit, taking place this week in the […]
Here’s another reason to have at least two bank accounts overseas: So you can move your money when one of them gets shut down. Years ago I had an account with the local Panama operation of Stanford Bank. I woke up one day to find that Stanford Bank had been taken over by Panama’s Banking […]
The tax questions are coming in fast and furious from U.S. readers as they and their tax-preparers pull together 2014 tax returns (due April 15 unless you are residing overseas or file for an extension). Some of the bad advice readers are getting from their tax “pros” would be funny if it weren’t so expensive. […]
When we arrived on the scene in Ireland in 1997, the real estate boom in that country was already in full swing. Appreciation had been running at 20% and more per year, year on year, for the previous five. We figured we were looking at the top of the market, a bubble nearing its pin. […]
One more benefit for Americans living overseas is that you are exempt from Obamacare. If you don’t want Obama’s health insurance as an American abroad, you don’t have to have it. In fact, living overseas, you can have no health insurance whatsoever if you like. Who wouldn’t want health insurance? Friends have gone without health […]
If you’re an American, it’s that time of year again. Time to begin preparing to meet your April 15 obligations. I meet mine each year by filing an extension. Living overseas allows me an automatic extension to June 15, but better, I think, to file the formal extension Form 4868 to get a full added […]
Investing pre-construction, which gained a bad rap post-2008, is again a viable option. If you were a pre-construction investor stung by losses in pre-2008 bubble markets from Florida to Spain, you may be understandably wary. However, in certain markets, pre-construction is again interesting. I recommend you take a look at Istanbul, for example, where the […]
The Dominican Republic is back on my radar. Actually, it’s been on my radar since I first visited in 2005, but one has only so much time and the world is full of opportunity. Over the last decade, this country has grown up a bit… especially the Samana Peninsula and Las Terrenas, my focus this […]
Last year about this time, I announced the launch of a new agricultural investment opportunity in Panama—a mango plantation where you could participate as a small investor, taking title to your piece of the farm and earning yields along with the developer. Today, that mango plantation is nearly sold out. In less than one year, […]
The best investment during the 20-year period from 1994 to 2013 was U.S. farmland. That’s the conclusion of a recent report in The Economist, which also considered farmland in Britain, U.S. stocks, international stocks, gold, U.S. T-Bills, U.S. forestry, and commodities. Based on the annualized returns and including appreciation of the land, U.S. farmland outperformed […]
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