Global Real Estate Investor and Consultant
Lief Simon has lived and worked on 5 continents and traveled to more than 50 countries. His real estate investing experience began nearly 20 years ago with a multi-unit building in Chicago. After selling that building for an incredible leveraged total return of more than 1,800% in 2 ½ years, Lief began to diversify internationally. In the near-two decades since, he has personally bought and sold property in 18 countries.
As the Founding Editor of Global Real Estate Investor and Real Estate Editor for International Living for 10 years and, more recently, as founder of Global Property Investor’s Marketwatch and Editor of The Simon Letter, Lief has spent more than three weeks out of four on the road for the better part of the past two decades, travelling almost constantly in search of the world's top emerging real estate opportunities.
Lief looks for one of two market situations when evaluating a potential investment: an abundance of opportunity created by a market distortion (crisis investing) or a chance to position yourself ahead of new infrastructure or some other local trend (the path of progress).
For example, Lief told his readers to buy in Argentina immediately after the 2001 financial crisis in that country, a time when CNN was showing riots in the streets and warning people to stay away. Lief saw not crisis but opportunity. Forward-thinking readers who followed his lead enjoyed appreciation rates of 100% and more in fewer than three years on buys in Buenos Aires.
In recent years, Lief has also turned readers on to targeted investments suitable for the individual investor in Mexico, Nicaragua, Romania, Panama, Belize, the Philippines, and, most recently, Colombia and Brazil.
In his long career as a global property investor, Lief has also managed multi-million-dollar portfolios of rental properties, for others and for himself. Lief’s current development project, an upscale, full-amenity, private community called Los Islotes, is in Panama, on the west coast of that country’s beautiful Azuero Peninsula.
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