Colombia
Main Event Clash: Residency In Panama Or Colombia?
If you’ve got U.S. dollars in your wallet or your purse, it’s like much of the world is on sale...
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Six Reasons (And More) To Love The City Of Medellin
Four days into my first visit to Medellín, Colombia, in 2008, here's what I had to say: The Euro-undertones are...
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Today’s Top 7 Property Investments… All Under $50K
Thinking about dipping a toe into global property markets but wondering how and where to get started? The benefits of...
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Carnival In Barranquilla: The Second-Biggest Carnival In The World
Across Latin America, the countdown is on to the biggest party of the year: Carnival! Everyone’s heard of carnival in...
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Celebrating The Festival Of Lights And Christmas In Medellin
The World’s Best Christmas Festival Of Lights I’ve been spending Christmas abroad since 2001 and have come to love the...
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The 10 Best Places To Live Overseas In 2017
As we come around the bend of 2016 and look ahead to the New Year, we here at Live and...
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The 9 Best Places To Buy Real Estate Overseas In 2017
9 Best Places To Buy Real Estate Overseas In 2017 Time to take stock, regroup, project, and predict... [UPDATED:...
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The Real Secret To Our Success Investing Overseas (Hint: It’s Trust)
Even I... a woman who really prefers to do things for herself and by herself... have learned an important lesson:...
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Finding A Luxury Lifestyle In Medellin On A Bargain Budget
Bona Fide Luxury Living At A Better-Than-Bargain Cost Medellín, Colombia, offers a luxury high-end lifestyle without the high-end costs. I...
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Nancy Kiernan’s 5 Critical Steps To Retire And Move Overseas
The Most Critical Requirement For Realizing Your Dream Of A New Life Overseas For years, my husband Mike and I...
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Christmas In Colombia Atop Bogota’s Monserrate Mountain
White Christmas In Colombia At more than 10,000 feet above sea level, Christmas atop Monserrate mountain feels like something out...
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Colombia’s Peace Treaty With FARC Is Big News For Investors
Well-Deserved Peace At Last In This Country Of Promise When I began paying attention to Colombia, in 2008, the country...
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Why Big Investors And Future Innovators Are Sold On Medellin
No Longer Scary Or Secret, Colombia's Time Has Come A bad reputation, even one that's completely undeserved, can be a...
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Santa Marta: A Hidden Gem On Colombia’s Caribbean Coast
Best Caribbean Seaside City You’ve Never Heard Of Cartagena continues to boost its profile as a prime travel and investment...
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Bogotá Street Artists Praised As Spray-Can Picassos
Street Art Revival In Bogotá The word "graffiti" usually conjures images of Bart Simpson vandalizing the side of the Kwik-E-Mart...
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3 Top Spots For Enjoying Spring-Like Weather All Year Long
Not Cut Out For Life In The Tropics? Consider These Cool-Weather Escapes The first retire-overseas choices to come to mind...
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Ready To Move From The U.S.? Here Are Your 6 Best Options
Our Top 6 Picks For Sunny Post-Election Living Searches for "How can I move to Canada?" spiked during the just-finished...
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Investing In Your Own Coffee Farm Overseas
Retire To Coffee Country Back in 2000, on one of my final retire-overseas exploratory trips, I looked at a small,...
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Mosquito-Free Countries For Retirement Overseas
Three Top Options For Mosquito-Free Retirement Overseas If you’ve been paying attention to the news recently, you’ve heard about the...
Read moreAdventure And Travel In Santa Marta, Colombia
"The mountains are beautiful, but where is the closest beach?" If you're a water lover like me, your first impression...
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The Top 20 Countries For Investing In Real Estate Today
Our New Survey Names World’s Best-Value Property Markets Spain’s housing bubble, Greece’s debt crisis, and recession in Portugal resulted in drops...
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How Life In Medellin Is Better Than You Could Imagine
Fallout From Last Week's Meetings In Medellín—Your Fellow Readers Were Shocked We work hard to tell the truth. Still, sometimes,...
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Retirement In Medellin: The World’s Next Top Living Choice
Top Lifestyle And Investment Haven In All Latin America—You Read It Here First I was one of the first people...
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New Timber Investment In Colombia: Act Right Now
Buy Colombian Timber Now A timber investment holds a special place on any risk/reward chart. The volatility of stocks and...
Read moreWhy This Tested Expat Settled For Life In Medellin, Colombia
This City Stands Out Among Top Lifestyle Options In All Latin America "I can admit it to you now... I...
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This Couple Is Living The Dream Life In Medellin, Colombia
Welcoming Neighbors, Bargain Prices, Investment Upside, And No Snow! "A snowdrift is a beautiful thing—if it doesn't lie across the...
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Timber Investment In Colombia In Ever Higher Demand
Planet-Saving And Income-Earning Both Our planet is home to more than 7.5 billion people. The United Nations estimates another billion...
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Medellín, Colombia: Investment Opportunities You Can’t Miss
The Beautiful Women Are Still Here I have a quick-fire question for you... When you hear mention of "Colombia," what's...
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El Poblado, Medellin: The World’s Best Location For City Living
8 Reasons This Is A Top Live And Invest Overseas Option In 2016 "I can't believe this place has stayed...
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Why Property In Medellin, Colombia, Should Be First On Your List
It’s Ludicrous Everybody Doesn’t Want To Live Here Abundance of opportunity. I think that was the biggest takeaway from this...
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Overseas Real Estate Investments With Real Cash Flow
Real Estate Overseas For Cash Flow Total world population is projected to reach 9 billion by 2050. That's a lot...
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Hottest Turn-Key Global Property Investment Opportunities
Global Property Gold Rush Profits Made Easy "Welcome to Panama and welcome to Lief Simon's Third Annual Global Property Summit..."...
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Comparing Latin America’s Property Prices Across Markets
Our Annual Global Property Survey Reveals Cheapest Markets, Biggest Currency Discounts, And Best Lifestyle Buys If you'd like to see...
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Where Can You Profit From Property Overseas?
Golden-Age Opportunities To Profit From Property Overseas I've been making this point for the past few months, but I'll make...
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More Top Retirement Havens For 2016
We want to do everything we can to help make 2016 your year, the year you get up and get...
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Comparing Retirement In Medellin and Panama City
Medellín Versus Panama City—How This Young Turk Stacks Up Our world doesn't deal in absolutes. It's all relative. Meaning the...
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12 Top Foreign Retirement Havens For 2016, Pt. 2
World's #1 Retirement Haven For 2016 As I explained yesterday, my Overseas Retirement Letter team is all out this week...
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Christmas Shopping In Medellin, Colombia
Gorditas Sexy And Big Johns—Christmas Shopping In Medellín After living in Medellín, Colombia, for a few months, I grew tired...
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Medellin Neighborhoods: El Poblado, Envigado, and Laurels
Three Top Lifestyle Options In This Pretty City Of Flowers, All A Bargain One of Medellín, Colombia's, wealthiest areas, El...
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Things To Do In Bogota, Colombia, For Travelers And Expats
More Than Just Hookers And Blow In Bogotá, The Athens Of Latin America Usually, Medellín and Cartagena receive all the...
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Touring The Colombian Wine Country
Colombian Wine Country? My husband was a wine distributor when we lived in Illinois, and we spent many vacations in...
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Top Overseas Property Markets For 2016
My 5 Favorite Property Markets For 2016 A reporter from Realtor.com contacted me this week to ask about my top...
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Factoring Investment In Colombia
Earn 12% A Year On This Unusual Colombian Investment In the United States recently, I happened to be someplace where...
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Touring The Coffee Triangle Of Colombia
Discovering Colombia's Coffee Country If you are like me, you probably start your day with a fragrant cup of roasted...
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Medellin, Colombia Named To World’s Most Innovative Cities List
World's Most Innovative City Continues To Impress Twenty years ago if you told anyone inside or outside of Colombia that...
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Christmas Festival Of Lights In Medellin, Colombia
World's Best Festival Of Christmas Lights Begins Today France has the City of Light... and Colombia has the City of...
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4 Discounted Property Markets Riding The Strong Dollar
How To Choose Among These Top Four Property Markets Over the past few months, you've heard a lot from us about...
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The World Is Alive With International Opportunities
International Opportunities Still Exist Things are bad all over... one might be thinking right now... The world is coming apart...
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How To Profit From Real Estate Overseas
Four Ways To Profit From Real Estate Overseas (With As Little As $17,000) I'm finalizing the line-up for my 2016...
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Investment Real Estate In Colombia Is A Bargain
Strong Dollar Makes This Market A Screaming Bargain One important and timely topic of discussion at my Global Asset Protection...
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