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Category: Real Estate

28 Feb
panama city bay view

Find Out The Top 5 Panama Property Markets In 2019

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 [...]
21 Feb
Caribbean property, a colorful house in the beachfront with clear water, white sand and palm trees

How We Choose An Overseas Property Investment

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 [...]
11 Feb
A monopoly board with houses and hotels and a card that reads "overseas property investments"

Things To Consider When Investing In Properties Overseas

If you purchase a piece of real estate in another country, should you have the ownership documents issued in your name or, perhaps, in the name of a corporation? If a corporation, should it be a local company (formed in the jurisdiction where you’re purchasing) or one based somewhere else? I get these questions from […]

27 Dec
overseas property investment

The 6 Best Markets For Investing In 2019

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... [...]
17 Dec
a typical apartment building in Paris, France

Find Out How You Can Benefit From The Brexit Confusion

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 [...]
30 Jul
Panama City Skyline residential and banking towers

Why Panama City’s Property Market Is Unlike Anywhere Else

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 [...]
09 Jul
Town in Abruzzo, Italy

Top 4 Countries With Real Estate You Should Invest In Now

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 […]

28 May
An aerial view of the Fortaleza beachfront

Fortaleza, Brazil: Earn 18% To 20% Return On Your Investment

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 [...]