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04 Jun
antalya turkey

Investing And Doing Business In Turkey

Today, some still would consider Turkey a developing economy; however, its per-capita GDP is in the same neighborhood as that of Mexico, Brazil, and Russia and in the top third of all countries. Specifically, Turkey’s GDP ranks 18th in the world. Its economy has grown at an average rate of

18 May
A teak plantation

Invest For Residency In Colombia

Among the investment opportunities presented during our conference last week in Medellín, Colombia, was a new timber project in that country. Timber investing has one of the best, if not the best, risk-to-return ratios you’ll find. Trees don’t have an expiration date. You can leave them to continue growing if for some reason the market […]

01 May
Self-Sufficiency In Uruguay, Chile, And Belize

Going Offshore And Investing In Land In Paraguay And Uruguay

Paraguay is one of the easiest places in the world to establish residency and maybe the easiest and most affordable place in the world to obtain citizenship and a second passport. You can accomplish all those things without meeting any income requirement and without making any big investment in the country. Furthermore, you don’t need […]

16 Apr
panama skyline

Taking The Pulse Of Panama City’s Property Market

Panama City must be hiding some real estate bargains, a colleague in town for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference suggested over lunch yesterday. When I asked how he came to that conclusion, his response was one I’ve heard many times, not only for Panama City but for other cities with lots of […]

13 Apr
Panama’s new “Specific Countries” residency program is the easiest and quickest way to establish permanent residency in this country, even to obtain a work permit.

Panama Is One Of The World’s Top Offshore Havens, Tax Havens, And Property Investment Markets

“Panama City today is unrecognizable from the Panama City I discovered for the first time 16 years ago,” I explained this morning to the crowd convened for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference. “This city has reinvented itself over the past decade-and-a-half. When I arrived on the scene 16 years ago, this was […]

06 Apr
Retirement And Real Estate Investment In Algarve, Portugal

Retirement And Real Estate Investment In Algarve, Portugal

The euro could continue to fall and is generally expected to reach parity with the U.S. dollar. That could amount to another 10% boost in buying power for dollar holders. Should you sit back and wait for your dollars to grow even stronger? I don’t think so, for two reasons. First, I think we’re at […]

23 Mar
agriculture

Agriculture And Productive Land Are The Biggest Current Property Investment Opportunity

An important focus at last week’s Global Property Summit in Panama was agriculture. As we discussed with the help of agricultural and other relevant industry experts, an investment in productive land is the biggest opportunity of our age. The global population will surpass 9 billion by 2050. The percentage of undernourished people around the world […]

19 Mar
how to invest overseas

How And Where To Invest In Property Overseas

“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 […]

09 Mar
A white house

Current Property Investment Opportunity In Ireland

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. […]

26 Feb
View from Q1 looking north

Lief Simon Hosts Annual Global Property Summit In Panama

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 […]