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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Final Chance To Invest In Aquaponics Before The Price Rises
Agricultural production using aquaponics technology is on the rise… and so is the cost of investing in the opportunity that...
Why My 2019 Diversification Plans Include Buying More Stocks
As a New Year's exercise last year, I ran the numbers for a rough comparison. I was wondering how the...
My Top Three Picks For Agricultural Investment In 2019
No matter how big or small your real estate investment portfolio, it should include agriculture. We live in a world...
Why Portugal Is Europe’s Easiest Place To Finance Property
Where in the world can you obtain bank financing as a foreigner for the purchase of real estate? I get...
Why Portugal Could Be Your Best Bet In A Doomsday Scenario
A reader wrote this week to ask where I’d recommend as the ideal destination in a doomsday scenario. Where would...
The Three Ways You Can Qualify For Portugal’s Golden Visa
Dozens of countries offer residency- and citizenship-through-investment programs. The United States and Canada, for example, have used these kinds of...
Investing In Wine In France: A Good (And Tasty) Venture
After Thanksgiving with family and old friends in Baltimore, Kathleen and I returned to Paris for six weeks. We seldom...
How And Why To Obtain Ecuadorean Citizenship
Other than for random, one-off real estate investment opportunities, Ecuador has never been high on my list of top offshore...
Bargain Real Estate And A Warm Welcome In Abruzzo, Italy
Last week's Live and Invest in Italy Conference proved to be an exciting, high-profile affair. Local news stations camped out at the...
Find Out Where Money Grows On Trees For Up To 80 Years
2018 has been a great year for us global property investors... And it's not over yet. In fact, I'd say...
Top 5 Global Investments To Suit Any Portfolio
At the Retire Overseas Conference we hosted a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the question I was most frequently...
3 Ways To Profit From Panama City’s Property Market
Panama City property values have been impressively resilient over the past 10 years. The global real estate crisis of 2008...
Is Panama Setting The Stage To Become The Next Singapore?
Panama City will be the next Singapore… I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that prediction—from Panama property...
You May Be Surprised At How Low Taxes In Europe Can Be
People often take Europe off the list of possibilities for where to move or invest overseas because they assume the...
Is Singapore A Suitable Destination For Diversification?
Singapore sits on the path of ancient shipping lanes... which is why it has long been an attractive destination, first...
Thailand Aquaponics Project (And Profits) Continue To Grow
Two years ago I made a quick trip from France to Thailand to visit with a developer embarking on a...
Why My Property Portfolio Is Doubled Down On Diversification
Lief Simon’s Personal Global Property Investing Strategy As longtime readers know, 99% of my investment portfolio is in real estate....
Top 4 Countries With Real Estate You Should Invest In Now
This Is How You Make Real Money From Real Estate Overseas Yesterday, Kathleen Peddicord laid out the phases of development an...
Three Important Lessons I Learned Internationalizing My Life
The Biggest Mistake Of My Life Overseas I've been working to internationalize my life for more than two decades. It...
How To Go Offshore And Diversify Your Life In 5 Simple Steps
5 Steps To Hedge Your Economic Bets And Ensure A Legacy For Your Heirs In the financial world, diversification is...
Why You Should Diversify Your Life Offshore And How I Started
What Kathleen And I Are Getting Up To In Paris This Week “Think back,” my editor wife counseled... “Why, originally,...
3 Solid Reasons To Start Investing In The Dominican Republic
The World’s #1 Offshore Haven The Dominican Republic first came onto my radar in 2005. It was the country's undervalued...
Why An Integrated Lifestyle Overseas Is Your Best Backup Plan
Three Paths To Your Ideal Life Overseas I'm preparing the program for my Offshore Wealth Summit taking place July 25–27 in...
Real Estate In Bogotá Is A Bargain: But For How Much Longer?
The Next Generation Effect In This Country Is Pushing Property Values Ever-Higher One of the best indicators of a healthy...
Why My Next Real Estate Investment Will Be In Colombia
Today’s Exchange Rate Makes This Market A Better Opportunity Than Ever I don't try to predict currency exchange rates when...
How Can You Create A Bigger, More Interesting Life Overseas?
I decided in high school that I wanted an international life. Of course, I wouldn't have articulated it that way...
Thailand Aquaponics Project Outperforming Projected Returns
I've received good news from a developer I've been working with... It's in regards to the aquaponics project in Thailand...
Abruzzo, Italy: Best Of Italian Living At An Affordable Price
Italy isn't an offshore haven. You have to be a resident in the country for 10 years before you can...
Real Estate In Lisbon: A Golden Opportunity For A Golden Visa
Too Late For Lisbon? The question on many minds at last week's Live and Invest in Portugal Conference was whether...
Why A Plan B Residency In Colombia Should Be Your Plan A
World’s Best Residency Option? I spent the past several months working on a massive expansion and a complete updating of...
These Brazilian Beach Townhouses Can Net You 20% Returns
Net Up To 20% A Year From US$99K Beach Townhouses If you've been paying attention to what I've been reporting...
Navigating The World’s Top Residency Options Firsthand
At the opening of every conference we host, I ask a few general questions to get an idea of the...
Portugal: Europe’s Hidden Gem That’s Getting Harder To Ignore
Ireland, Spain, France, and Italy might all make it into the answers of a Family Feud survey about where people...
Life In the United States Can Be Cheap, But Is It Fulfilling?
I'm just back from a cross-country road trip... followed by a few days in New York City. I drove from...
There Are Many Reasons For Going Offshore, Taxes Aren’t One
Last week was the end of the official tax season for Americans. We all got an extra day this year...
Weighing Risk Vs Reward For Long-Term Subsidized Renters
I'm receiving emails and alerts daily from U.K. real estate promoters touting U.S. property investment opportunities to their British investor...
Is Santo Domingo The World’s Next Big Property Market?
I visited Panama for the first time in early 2000. The United States had just handed over the Canal Zone...
Why I Don’t Recommend Offshore Banks Anymore (From An Offshore Expert)
Banking overseas is more challenging today than it's ever been and more challenging all the time thanks to the constantly...
How Trump’s Tax Changes Impact Americans Offshore
Trump threw us Americans with businesses overseas a curveball in December. His tax changes eliminated the deferred tax status for...
Why It’s More Urgent Than Ever To Be Diversified Offshore
The key advantage to "going offshore," as we refer to it, is diversification. The very good news is that you...
3 Solid Reasons To Start Investing In The Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic first came onto my radar in 2005. It was the country’s undervalued beachfront property that got my...
4 Reasons Life In Medellín, Colombia, Might Not Be For You
I've been spending time and investing money in Colombia and reporting on those adventures for almost 10 years. Still, people...
