Cash is king, right? Not really. It’s cash flow you should care about. Cash flow is critical to most aspects ...

Any global real estate investment portfolio should include at least one rental property. A rental investment won't make you rich, ...

Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most ...

In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellín, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally ...

Years ago, my mother knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast ...

My first trip to Belize, about 30 years ago, was organized courtesy of the Belize Tourism Authority. I was a ...

Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor’s kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses ...

This spring, my family has planted more vegetables in our garden than ever before. We don’t expect to be able ...

"But haven't we done this already? “Haven't we already bought an old stone house surrounded by mud? Isn't that what ...

Owning a piece of real estate in a foreign country doesn't only give you the opportunity to diversify. Depending on ...

At our most recent Live and Invest in Portugal Virtual Conference, it was exciting to see how that country's market ...

Before the pandemic, back when it never would've occurred to us that face masks would be essential parts of our ...

One big loss can wipe out a lot of gains. After more than two-and-a-half decades of property investing experience across ...

I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could do it—and lost ...

Given a budget of US$150,000, how would you start your global property portfolio? Each year at our annual Global Property ...

You do not need a jet-set budget to take advantage of the world's number-one wealth-building strategy. I’m talking about opportunities ...

If you want to find the best beaches in Central America, follow the surfers. You don’t need to be a ...

U.S. second-home markets are seeing exploding interest. It's understandable. Seems like a good time to have a second home somewhere ...

It’s finally happening… the world is finally, slowly opening back up again. Here in France, museums and monuments have been ...

Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and ...

Have you ever gone on vacation and fallen in love with the place you were visiting? Perhaps you even fantasized ...

We’re speaking this week about how to purchase real estate overseas, sharing hard-won wisdom and decades of experience to help ...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd ...

Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all ...

The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean paradise, with islands and endless white sand beaches, turquoise sea, corals, humpback whales, jungles, ...

There are two reasons to purchase real estate overseas... First, because you have moved there and you decide you want ...

What if the country where you'd like to retire uses a currency other than the U.S. dollar? That is, how ...

A little more than a year since pandemic restrictions first were instituted in Panama, the country is vaccinating (including foreign ...

“This question is directed to both Kathleen and Lief. “Thank you so much for your recent article about Lahardan House in ...

Nearly two-and-a-half decades living overseas—in Ireland, France, and Panama—have taught me...  1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn doing ...

It might be easy to get on board with the idea of retiring overseas... But it’s not as easy to ...

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve heard me say it often… If you’re interested in taking an action offshore, do ...

I receive your Mailbag questions for me direct to my inbox each morning. I read through them before I do ...

Creole Proverb: Wen teef teef fram teef, God laff. Literally: When a thief steals from another thief, God laughs. (When ...

Driving from Nicosia, Cyprus’s capital, along a straight road ascending the Kyrenia mountain range, you arrive at the pass and ...

In a make-or-break year like 2021, it’s critical to make the smartest possible investment choices. Property is a safe bet, ...

My 14 favorite things about living in Belize? They'd have to be… #1: Tubing on the Mopan River around Bullet ...

Whenever I tell people that I live in Puerto Vallarta, I hear, “Isn’t it really touristy?” The short answer is ...

As more and more of the U.S. population is vaccinated, the American tourist is becoming an ever-more desirable visitor worldwide. ...

Fine white sand, clear blue waters, hammocks swaying in the sea breeze, and the sun bathing you as you relax… ...

Panama may not be known as a global environmental steward... especially when compared with its neighbor to the west, Costa ...

Renovating a property overseas is something many of us dream about. But I can't go any further without asking you ...

I'm a city girl. I love living in cities and have been unhappy whenever I've lived, even briefly, in smaller ...

In my mission to uncover the best deals—world-class properties in prime locations that I know will recover fast—Panama remains high ...

Where Have All The Expats Gone? 9 Top Expat Havens One of the fundamental issues you should consider early on in ...

Panama is a country blessed to be surrounded by water on two sides, with the Caribbean Sea on the north, ...

Most countries make it possible to acquire citizenship through residency. After you’ve been a full-time resident of the country for ...

You might have heard about home exchanges in popular culture before. In fact, it’s the theme of a romantic comedy ...

If anyone had told me six years ago that today I would be living in Colombia, I would have laughed. Back ...

Medellín versus Cartagena... which is the better city for living and investing? We hear this question a lot, so today ...