Over the summer, 470 places across the island competed for the title of “Best Place To Live In Ireland.” The...

"Who has my pig?" These words are uttered by desperate Oregon recluse Rob, played by Nicolas Cage, in the recently...

I'm most of the way through Alain De Botton's "The Consolations Of Philosophy." It's an entertaining collection of teachings from...

How can you fund the purchase of your second home or investment property in a foreign country? First, you need...

Aside from the dozens of queries that fill our mailbags every week from readers looking for a warm, sunny destination,...

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

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

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

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

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One of the big lessons we learned over the last year is our ability to be more self-sufficient. Between restaurant...

Among the new trends we faced last summer in Ireland, a country home being snapped up by a foreign buyer...

What a dicey year. Just when we thought our respective countries had a grip on the pandemic, a second or...

James Joyce’s “The Dead” is often praised as the greatest Irish short story ever written. Though I first read the...

If you’d been thinking about taking your job on the road and embracing the digital-nomad lifestyle sometime in the future,...

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I’m a big fan of the tiny home. Many times, I find myself dreaming of less clutter...better economy... a simpler...

How can you keep up with your plans of moving and/or buying property overseas in the middle of a pandemic?...

Last December,  I highlighted the top 10 property markets to watch in 2020 . One place on the list that...

None of us can tell what's around the corner. From Europe to the United States to Latin America, we can't...

We’re going to kick off today by putting two beach properties head to head. I’m not going to tell you...

In 2018, the number of people aged over 65 living in the United States was 52 million. That's expected to...

If you could take your work anywhere, where would you go? One thing this pandemic has shown us is how...

"Can an evergreen tree die?" my son asked as I ran alongside his bike. Under Irish lockdown laws, we're free...

Over the past two years, we've been highlighting Colombia as a place where U.S.-dollar-holders have increased buying power. Now that...

In 1989, Italian schoolteacher Mauro Morandi was sailing between Corsica and Sardinia when the engine of his catamaran gave up....

We talked recently about the signs to look out for when identifying a market that's ripe for investment. One of...

"Where can I buy a home on the beach for US$250,000 cash?" a reader recently wrote to ask. In Florida...

"Why do you talk about Brazil... isn't it a mess?" a reader wrote in last week. On a generic claim...

I drew the short straw this morning... My husband Dara dibbed the only desk in the house. He has a...

A few weeks ago, I was asked to be a guest on the Jetsetter Show Podcast with host Jason Hartman....

When I covered the Paris property market a couple of months ago, I promised you I'd follow up with some...

In an episode of This American Life recorded back in 2000, writer David Sedaris takes host Ira Glass on a tour of...

Twelve years ago, when my husband and I bought our home in Waterford, Ireland, we never gave much thought to...

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