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World’s Best Residency Options Listen to the news for 10 minutes these days, and you’re convinced. We all need a…

Why Go Offshore In The First Place? Yesterday we looked at options for forming an offshore structure and wondered:…

Who Really Needs An Offshore Structure? Lief Simon's Offshore Wealth Summit in Panama City this week is built…

7 Things You Need To Know About Moving Money Across Borders In Today’s World Living or retired in another country,…

World’s Best Residency Programs One important piece of internationalizing your life is establishing residency in…

When we convene in Orlando, Florida, Aug. 27–30, for this year's Retire Overseas Conference, we'll be joined by our…

My Mom Is Struggling With This, Too It was early one morning during my most recent visit with my family back in…

Our Hectic, Stressful Former Lives Are Now A Distant Memory We sat at an outdoor table at a cafe in the square of…

This Is Not For Retirees Only For more than 30 years, "retire overseas" has been my beat... but it’s never been my…

A Single Woman Of A "Certain Age" Reinvents Her Life In Madrid It is an odd feeling. Definitely something is…

9 Places To Chase Self-Funded Adventure Overseas (Working As Little As 10 Hours A Week) How would you like to opt…

Easiest And Best Residency? We’re updating our guide to foreign residency and second citizenship. I’m reviewing the…

Answers To 24 Live Overseas FAQs Our editors, contributors, correspondents, and friends across the globe are all…

One Couple’s Search For Their "Just Right" Second Home In The Caribbean Led Them Here Remember Goldilocks? She…

Answer These 9 Questions Honestly Every year, I speak with hundreds of potential expats at events and get…

How To Get The Most Out Of Your New Life Overseas You’re doing it. You’re taking the plunge. Soon you will be an…

Road Trip Of A Lifetime My wife and I have been traveling the world for two decades. We have visited more than 100…

Our Next Move Is Completely Up To Us We are house-sitting in Tulum, Mexico, for an expat family from the United…

Cherif Should Never Buy Real Estate Overseas A reader sent this earlier this week: "Lief, I have seen a recent…

The Enormous Upsides Of Being A Medical Tourist Most people know it as "medical tourism." I think of it as being a…

Don’t Rent A Home Overseas Unless... If you’re moving overseas for fun rather than profit—that is, if your agenda…

Kathleen Peddicord’s Top 19 Travel Tips Whether you’re moving to a new country or taking off on a two-week holiday,…

Three LIOS Members Share Their Real Life Stories Of Success Overseas This month we celebrate the four-year…

All The Con Men I’ve Known... You know you can’t believe everything you read on the internet. You know that if it…

How To Earn Safe Returns In Panama Of As Much As 100% I spent last weekend in the United States, in Atlanta and…

The Real Estate Agents Will Wear Pants, I Promise I hosted the first conference of my career some 30 years ago in…

Better Call Joel—How To Make Your Wealth Untouchable Moving assets offshore isn’t a new idea. But, in the minds of…

Why Waterford, Ireland, Is Again Part Of The Plan When Lief and I decided to relocate from the United States to…

7 Things to Know Before Building Your Dream Home in a Foreign Country… I’ve bought, sold, and renovated houses in…

8 Secrets To Profiting In Emerging Markets It was a very hot, humid few days in the middle of the summer of 1997. I…

The Single Best Bargain In Asia Many are the reasons to visit the exotic and enthralling countries of Southeast…

Apples To Apples—And Other Live And Retire Overseas Fundamentals Apples to apples. That's the principle to keep in…

If Your Panama Attorney Insists You Need A Panama Corporation, Just Say No When I first began spending time and…

This Is How To Build Your Fortune From Real Estate Overseas On stage at this week’s Global Property Summit in…

Passive Cash Flow To Support Your New Life Overseas We have two agendas in Panama City this week. First, we are…

This Is About The Extraordinary Return, Plain And Simple "It’s a magic spot," Juan Darío said simply as he began…

Is This The Beach You Want To Grow Old With? Rum and real estate don’t mix. You want to be sober when considering…

Where Is The Right Place In The World For You? Here’s One Way To Choose As you consider locations for where you…

7 Property Investments Under $50K To Buy Now Thinking about dipping a toe into global property markets but…

How To Use Real Estate Overseas To Fund Your Retirement I bought my first overseas property almost 16 years ago.…

How To Time Your Overseas Property Purchase The U.S. dollar continues at highs against currencies around the world,…

How To Find Your Ideal Second Home Overseas Before you’re ready to retire, you’re likely to notice places around…

How To Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too, When Living Overseas We’ve all read axioms about travel... "It’s not the…

Your Dollar Discount Is Shrinking I believe we are at the start of the end of the U.S. dollar’s extraordinary bull…

Two Biggest Worries Living Overseas The Forbes reporter who interviewed me this week wanted me to give it to him…

Why We Continue To Double Down For Property Profits In This Top Market Over the past two decades, my husband Lief…

Four Secrets To Making The Right Property Purchase Overseas I write today from my new home in Mazatlán... The…

The Secret To Being Happy In Your New Life Overseas—Confessions Of A Serial Expat Holiday travels in the States…

What Happens If Your New Life Overseas Doesn’t Work Out? When is the right time for you to retire and move abroad?…

How To Make Your Live And Invest Overseas Dreams Come True In 2017, Step 2 You've got your list. (If you missed…