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This Sunday before Christmas, I write from Baltimore, Maryland, my home town. I’m here with Lief, along with our daughter...

When Peta Lowry looks from her window, she sees a beautiful valley and the Apennine Mountains… “I pinch myself looking...

You hear from me every day in these dispatches on some aspect of living and retiring overseas. One day I’m...

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

We focus a lot on the benefits of retiring overseas, or buying a second home overseas. But what about if...

I’ve been reviewing the schedule of confirmed speakers for my Offshore Wealth Summit in Porto, Portugal, this Oct. 16-18, to...

8938. That is the number of the IRS form you have to fill out to report foreign financial assets. If...

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

There is a scene in the 2003 movie "Under The Tuscan Sun" that I now can identify as the moment...

How do you get started investing in real estate overseas? To borrow a page from Nike’s playbook... You just do...

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

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

This will be a piece of cake, I told myself as we prepared for our move from Baltimore to Waterford...

I’ve been hosting conferences on living, retiring, and investing overseas for more than 30 years. At these events I’ve met...

For better than two-and-a-half decades, Lief and I have been working together to identify and then position pieces of our...

You hear from me every day in these dispatches on some aspect of living and retiring overseas. One day I’m...

The first and perhaps most important step you must take to make sure that you arrive where you want to...

You probably followed the recent shenanigans that almost resulted in a U.S. government shutdown… Congress, at the last minute, finally...

Do I feel more or less American living overseas? I get this question a lot. And, as the United States...

How would you like to opt out of the daily grind and take off for grand global adventures? Today’s technology...

You want to be sober when considering a property purchase in a foreign land. Certainly, you want your wits about...

I started to think of expert tips for renovating rental property overseas, in advance of the purchase of the property...

Yesterday I began a list of 10 things you'll need to think about when you're planning for a move overseas....

One of the best ways to generate cash flow from a property investment is through rental yields. But sometimes, keeping...

Moving overseas comes with a lot of goodbyes. We say farewell to our houses, our families, our coworkers, and our...

Why would anyone want to become a legal resident of another country? If you're interested in becoming a resident of...

Day by day in these dispatches, I work to show you that you can reinvent your life for the better...

If you’ve done any reading about living or retiring abroad, you’ve heard these words: "Rent before you buy." In fact,...

Often, people move abroad at the request of their employer. And, just as often, the opportunity to be placed overseas...

Dollar-euro parity? We’re closing in. As I write, US$1 equates to 1.01 euro. The U.S. dollar holder has noteworthy buying...

The dictionary defines "retirement" as a state of "being withdrawn from the rest of the world or from a former...

Before you're ready to retire, you're likely to notice places around the world where you'd like to be able to...

Lief used Other People's Money (OPM) to launch his real estate investing career in the United States, and we were...

When is the right time for you to make a move overseas? Right now. OK, I don't know you personally,...

8938. That is the number of the IRS form you have to fill out to report foreign financial assets. If...

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

We Americans have it rough when it comes to taxes. The Big Bad Wolf of the world’s financial arena—the IRS—calls...

We've all read axioms about travel... "It's not the destination, it's the journey... " Or this from J.R.R. Tolkien: "Not...

Most people know it as "medical tourism." I think of it as being a thrifty and educated user of global...

Two decades living overseas, in Ireland, Panama, and France, have taught me... 1. Patience... the kind of patience you learn...

One thing, one day. If you get one thing accomplished in a day... you've won. That's the best piece of...

If you're interested in living, retiring, or working in the Old World, you have more options than ever in history....

When Lief and I sat down to map out the plan for our book "How To Buy Real Estate Overseas...

In 2008, I took my leave from the publishing company where I'd been working for 23 years. I was 45...

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

About 30 years ago, I was sitting at a palapa bar in Playa del Carmen waiting for the ferry to...

Bright and early this morning, our entire far-flung Live and Invest Overseas team convened for this year's Retire Overseas Virtual...

"I read something you wrote on Thailand several months ago and decided that that was the place for me," explained...