Make A Difference: Volunteer With Fundacion Bolivar, Ecuador
Since 2004, the Fundación Bolívar has been helping foreigners, both resident and visiting the country, to share their time, their ...
Welcome To “Little Miami”! Life As An Expat In Salinas, Ecuador
Until 2008, Salinas and this country’s coast were part of Guayaquil Province. As a result, the coast was largely overlooked. ...
The Cost Of Living Is Low, But Should You Retire In Ecuador?
I came to Ecuador for the first time 20 years ago. This was pre-dollarization. The place was crazy cheap… but ...
Free Lesson On The Best Portfolio Management Strategy
I come from humble beginnings. The village where I grew up had fewer than a hundred houses… most of them ...
Where To Find The Best Real Estate Buys In Portugal
Broad market statistics show that property prices in Portugal bottomed out in the first quarter of 2015. I bought an ...
9 Critical Issues To Consider Before Deciding To Live Overseas
Yesterday, we walked through the six big issues you must address as you work to make a plan for reinventing ...
A Taste of the World’s Best Spice Markets
“He who controls the spice, controls the universe.” – Frank Herbert, Dune Like a lot of things in modern life, ...
The Six Things You Need To Do If You Are Retiring Overseas
How do you retire overseas? After more than 30 years thinking this through, I feel pretty confident in my answer ...
What I Enjoy Most About Living And Working In The Algarve
One advantage of making my living as a writer, journalist, and translator is that I can work from anywhere in ...
11 Reasons The Algarve Is Our Favorite European Escape
"We have a word in Portuguese," a friend from Lisbon, Miguel, told me once, "that doesn't exist in any other ...
10 Best Places To Buy Real Estate Overseas In 2019
In today's complicated world, international property stands out among investment options because it is both a hard asset and one ...
Our Most Popular FAQs On Moving Abroad: Portugal Edition
When making any move overseas, you'll have lots and lots of questions. Maybe you won't be sure who to ask... ...
A Guide To Some Of Belize’s Lesser-Known Small Towns
Shortly after graduating college in 2004, I applied and was accepted to the Peace Corps. On a cold January day ...
The World’s 12 Best Places To Honeymoon In 2019
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day ...
This Beautiful Country Is The Best Place To Retire Overseas
The #1 most frequently asked question I've received over the more than 30 years that I've been covering the live-and-invest-overseas ...
All The Info On Moving To Portugal At Our 2019 Conference
"About a year ago, my wife and I made the leap," writes Terry O'Halloran. "We moved halfway around the world, ...
Celebrating St Patrick’s Day 2019 Around The World
While many people are aware that Saint Patrick wasn’t actually born in Ireland, the story of how he ended up ...
An Update On Tax Changes And Qualified Opportunity Zones
The U.S. tax code is nearly 75,000 pages long. That is to say… U.S. taxes are the most complicated in ...
Fortaleza, Brazil: Earn 18% To 20% Return On Your Investment
Generally speaking, a successful residential rental investment will give you net yields of between 5% and 8% a year. I've ...
Keys To A Happy Retired Life Overseas
"Who should be thinking about retiring to a new country?" wondered the Money magazine editor who interviewed me recently. "That is," she ...
Expat Hugo On Setting Up And Running A Business In Panama
As the backbone of Panama’s ever-expanding economy, Panama City is constantly under pressure. Many of its residents work high-stress office ...
Heather Reviews Our 2018 Retire Overseas Conference
My husband Bob and I have been considering retiring overseas for several years. With the big retirement date drawing near, ...
How To Stay Compliant With Offshore Taxes
This month’s issue of my Simon Letter service features my annual review, overview, and update on taxes for the American abroad. The big ...
How To Buy Your First Stock
I've written to you in the past about where the market is moving, which sectors will dominate the future, and ...
An Apothecary Garden And Other News From Los Islotes
This carnaval weekend in Panama, folks are sunning, swimming, and snorkeling in the ever-present sea… singing, drinking, and dancing in the streets… ...
Why We Left It All Behind And Moved To Panama City
The reasons to diversify your investment portfolio and your lifestyle to include real estate overseas have never been more compelling ...
Dave And Shyla Larman Choose Retirement In Costa Del Este, Panama
Shyla Larman to Dave Larman: "Dear, I'm moving to Panama... and you are invited to come along." Dave Larman to ...
Cooking With Coconuts And How To Live In Belize Long-Term
I recently moved to Ambergris Caye, Belize, from Portland, Oregon… While preparing for the move, the topic of how most ...
Is Retiring In Panama Still A Good Choice? If So, Where?
Yesterday, Lief Simon detailed Panama’s five top property markets for 2019. And confirmed that Panama remains, more than 20 years after ...
Find Out The Top 5 Panama Property Markets In 2019
The death of Panama’s property market has been rumored for the last 10 years at least. Starting in 2003 and ...
Two Decades Of Growth, But Panama Is Just Getting Started
In the summer of 1997, I got a phone call in my office in Baltimore. It was my global property ...
Inventive Developers Identify Niche Market In Panama City
One Panama City developer has identified a real estate market niche that no other developer has noticed. I think of ...
How We Choose An Overseas Property Investment
At lunch yesterday, a friend in town for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference broke out his phone and started ...
The Lessons I’ve Learned Owning A Business Abroad
I don’t consider myself an investment-savvy person… Or at least I didn’t when I moved to Panama in 2005, at ...
The Only Investing Principle That Works In Any Market
Let me tell you about one of the best investing lessons I’ve ever learned. When I was in elementary school, ...
Winter Sale 2019 –Up To 52% Discounts In These Emerging Markets
The other day I walked along the local shopping avenue, where all the stores displayed large signs proclaiming "Big Winter ...
In Perfect Harmony: Enjoy The Best Of 2 Worlds In Checa, Ecuador
City living is not for everyone. The noise, traffic, pollution, and crowds you find in a typical big city can ...
11 Essential Tips To Plan Your Retirement Overseas
Here are 11 things I've learned from the school of hard knocks after four international moves across three continents with ...
How To Rent Or Buy Real Estate In Unregulated Markets Overseas
Rum and real estate don’t mix. You want to be sober when considering property purchase options in a foreign land. ...
Our Experts Answer Attendees Questions On All Things Belize
At last month's Live and Invest in Belize Conference, host Lief Simon and his dozens-strong team of Belize experts and ...
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 ...
Top 4 Countries With Currency Discounts In 2019
If you're holding U.S. dollars, 2019 is the best year in a long time for harnessing your buying power abroad. ...
How My Overseas Investments Kept Me Safe From Crisis
I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could do it—and lost ...
6 Steps To A Successful Overseas Property Investment
Years ago, I knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast of ...
The 6 Best Markets For Investing In 2019
Yesterday, Lief Simon shared his picks for top property investment markets in 2019. Today, I'd like to share mine... Brazil ...
Global Property Investment 101: Where To Start
If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital ...
Exotic Resorts: How Panama Expats Turned Retirement Into Profit
Elaborate, exotic resorts have always been alluring... but, these days, more and more people opt for small, specialized bed and ...
9 Reasons Why Real Estate Overseas Is A Great Investment
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd ...
News From Panama City After 3 Months Away
Back in our Live and Invest Overseas HQ bright and early this sunny morning after three months away, what's new... ...
Onward! Trekking Barefoot To Los Islotes Through The Jungle
“Now, when something like this happens to you when you’re older, you’ll know what to do,” offered Harry, trying to ...
