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About 20 of us sat around the tables of the open-air “rancho on the hill,” as we call it, sipping Panama beers and Abuelo rum and Cokes and staring out at the crashing surf and the three little islands just offshore that give their name to my Los Islotes development project on Panama’s western Azuero […]
Using the wrong type of entity can create tax and administrative issues that can be costly to remedy… especially for Americans. If an American uses an S.A. (Sociedad Anonima) from Panama to hold passive-income-producing investments, for example, he can
One of the first buyers at Los Islotes, the beachfront community Lief and I are developing on Panama’s Azuero Sunset Coast, was a man named John. John had two children and a long-term girlfriend, but he came down to visit the property on his own. John was in his early 70s. Los Islotes was just […]
From 2003 to 2005, I recommended real estate investment in Brazil, specifically apartments in Rio de Janeiro. Many readers did well with that recommendation. In more recent years, I’ve shied away from Brazil. Investing in this country comes with complications. When Brazil’s currency is strong, most opportunities are too expensive to be worth the hassle. […]
If I had a quarter for every time someone has written in to tell me I’m out of my mind for suggesting people move to or invest in Colombia, I’d have a whole lot more money to invest in Colombia. Even at last week’s Global Property Summit, some of the attendees raised their eyebrows when […]
“Welcome to Panama and welcome to Lief Simon’s Third Annual Global Property Summit…” So I began bright and early this sunny Panama morning in the meeting rooms of Panama City’s Marriott Hotel. “I’ve been scouting foreign property markets for more than 30 years… since 1985,” I continued for all assembled. “I made my first foreign […]
Negative interest rates are in the headlines. Japan has just recently caused a media uproar by joining the ranks of the ECB and central banks in Sweden, Switzerland, and Denmark, who are all charging commercial banks to store their extra cash. One investment strategy touted by a colleague in the past to take advantage of […]
It’s been two years since I first recommended what was at the time an innovative new agricultural investment opportunity in Panama—specifically, a mango plantation. The project was launched in February 2014. After a couple of months of preparation on the ground with the help of topography maps and drones, the developers began clearing the land. […]
As Mark Twain might have put it (and as our correspondent Paul Terhorst observes in the latest issue of my Simon Letter service), news of the dollar’s demise these past several years has been premature. How much longer will the U.S. dollar remain as strong as it is today versus currencies worldwide? Will it get […]
The beach resort of Santa Marta, Colombia, wins the prize for biggest price drop in 2015. Properties in this popular seaside getaway fell from US$2,091 per square meter last year to US$1,032 at the start of 2016… a drop of more than 50%. Values in Santa Marta actually increased in Colombian peso terms, but the […]
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