5 Ways To Make Money In Panama In 2019 The death of Panama’s property market has been rumored for the last 10 years at least. Starting in 2003 and continuing through 2008, this country enjoyed a mega construction boom. Then came the crash of real estate markets around the globe. Would-be investors worried about the [...]
Why Was This Man Showing His Photos To My Wife? At lunch yesterday, a friend in town for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference broke out his phone and started showing my wife, Kathleen, photos of properties from a Portugal real estate e-letter he gets. The cheapest one was a farmhouse in the countryside on [...]
6 Top Overseas Property Markets For 2019 As my Global Property Advisor Editor Samantha Russell laid out in her year-end round-up, 2018 has been very good to us global property investors. This past year we've positioned ourselves for profit from townhouses on the coast of Brazil... and long-term care homes in the U.K.... From turnkey rentals in Colombia, Portugal, and the Dominican Republic... [...]
Four Markets Set To Benefit Big Time From The Brexit Effect Theresa May battles on in the U.K., getting little sleep, I imagine, as she racks up frequent flier miles jetting among EU capital cities trying to save her Brexit deal. Whatever happens—soft Brexit deal, hard Brexit deal, or no deal but an unceremonious divorce [...]
When It Comes To Rental Yields, This Can Make Or Break You My first rental property was a three-flat apartment building I managed myself in the United States. I lived in one of the apartments and rented out the other two long term and unfurnished. I might have had an empty apartment for a few [...]
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Why I Moved From Costa Rica To Panama... One Global Property Investor's Remarkable Success Story Back in Panama following his Offshore Wealth Summit last week in the Dominican Republic, Lief Simon is otherwise occupied today. As you read this, Lief is at the Chinese Embassy in Panama City trying to finalize the paperwork for the student [...]
Yesterday, Kathleen Peddicord laid out the phases of development an overseas property market moves through as it finds its way onto the world’s radar. As she explained, each phase attracts different kinds of buyers and different kinds of end-users and presents different levels of opportunity for the would-be real estate investor. Get in on a new […]
I don’t try to predict currency exchange rates when shopping for real estate investments overseas. I focus on finding a good opportunity in a market I believe in. I don’t then wait to make the buy depending on whether the local currency is over- or undervalued relative to the currency I’m shopping with. In 2011, […]
Earn 18% To 20% Net From This Coastal Rental? Too Good To Be True? A developer in Brazil is projecting what any serious investor (including me) would initially consider to be unrealistic net rental yields of 18% to 20% for his new coastal townhouse development. However, stick with me. These returns are extraordinary... but I [...]
If You Don't See The Opportunity In This Top Euro-Market, You Aren't Looking Hard Enough The question on many minds at last week's Live and Invest in Portugal Conference was whether the Lisbon real estate market is a bubble... or not. Prices in the Portuguese capital have pushed beyond 7,000 euros a square meter... In [...]
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