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 [...]
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 [...]
I've Tripled My Money In This Market And Am Diving Back In For More If you're holding U.S. dollars, you have a window of opportunity right now to take advantage of super-charged buying power in key overseas markets. The dollar's current strength is creating irresistible bargains in some countries where real estate trades in the [...]
4 Ways To Sell Your Overseas Property For Top Dollar When I sold the three-flat investment property in Chicago in 1998, marking the start of my overseas property investment career, the Windy City market was overheated. I listed the property at an inflated price relative to going market rates, thinking I was allowing myself room [...]
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My Wife Says These Are The Two Best Places To Go Overseas In 2020 Cheapest, safest... best weather, best infrastructure, best health care... most tax-advantaged and most foreign-resident friendly... Not to mention most romantic, exotic, historic, and adventure filled... Our editors, correspondents, and scouts have been collecting data and crunching numbers for three months. The [...]
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10 Best Places To Invest In Property Overseas In 2020, Part 2 Today, part two of our two-part survey on the World’s Top Property Markets For 2020. To review, the five markets we’ve recommended already (in Part 1) are: Brazil Panama Belize Portugal Colombia Now to the final five of our picks for best places to [...]
Year-End Property Portfolio Update I try to update the spreadsheet I use to track all of my real estate investments twice a year… in June and December. This month’s update is timely, as, as I’ve mentioned, I closed on the sale of a property in Portugal in November. I can now formally calculate my IRR [...]
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10 Best Places To Invest In Property Overseas In 2020 Top property markets in 2019... that we believe will continue strong in 2020 and beyond? Here you go... Brazil Alamy/Chris Schmid Photography Right now, everything Brazil has to offer is available at a discount... The Brazilian real continues its historic low against the U.S. dollar [...]
Part of my long-term offshore lifestyle and diversification strategy includes a beach house in Panama at the Los Islotes residential community my wife Kathleen and I have been developing on this country’s western Azuero coast. I’ve been involved in different ways in dozens of developments like Los Islotes in more than two-dozen countries over the past […]
Lief Simon's 4 Favorite Overseas Property Markets Today I'm all in on real estate overseas. It's the cornerstone of my investment portfolio and of my personal Freedom Plan. In our world today, international property stands out more strongly than ever among investment options because it is both a hard asset and one of the best [...]
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