Real Estate
How I Funded My Early Retirement With Overseas Real Estate
I bought a beachfront home, directly on the sand, for less than US$62,000. After furnishing the solid, 2,000-square-foot house, I...
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Overseas Property Adventures From Ireland To Paris
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...
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Global Property Investing Made Easy—Here’s How
On stage yesterday for the opening morning of this week’s Global Property Summit taking place in Panama City, with the...
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Your Ticket To Passive Income: Global Property Investing
This morning, Lief and I took to the stage in the meeting rooms of the Playa Bonita Beach Resort just...
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The Best Places To Buy A Small Property Overseas
I'm watching the latest season of "Tiny House Nation" on Netflix. If you've never seen the show, each episode follows...
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Protect Your Money From The IRS With Overseas Real Estate
8938. That is the number of the IRS form you have to fill out to report foreign financial assets. If...
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Regain Your Privacy: Top 5 Countries For Off-The-Grid Living
Twelve years ago, when my husband and I bought our home in Waterford, Ireland, we never gave much thought to...
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Be Aware Of These Risks Before Buying Overseas Real Estate
How do I assess the potential risks of a real estate investment opportunity I'm considering making in another country? That...
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Restoring A Georgian House In Waterford, Ireland
While I waited, I wandered from room to room. It was the house I'd had in mind since the day...
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How I Learned The Value Of Truffles And Why I’m Investing
One sunny summer afternoon in 2012 I had the most expensive lunch of my life. Kathleen, the kids, and I...
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Tropical Avocado Investment In Panama Promising Big Returns
In 2014, we reported for the first time on a group in Panama developing an organic fruit tree plantation and...
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100% Mortgages, Warning Signs And The Irish Property Market
In the summer of 2005, I took a day trip with friends and work colleagues to Isla Contadora—one of the...
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Achieve Your Real Estate Goals At Our Global Property Summit
Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all...
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5 Countries Where Real Estate Is Still Incredibly Cheap
Getting onto the property ladder has always been one of the safest and best ways of securing long-term wealth. Buying...
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Should You Invest In Panama’s Middle-Class Housing Market?
This month’s issue of my Global Property Advisor has a theme: It reveals a series of opportunities that share a common target...
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Black Truffle Investment: Earn Up To 19% Yearly For 30 Years
My latest agriculture discovery is in Europe... But it's not a vineyard. It's a truffle plantation. What's a truffle? Well,...
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Why I’m Freeing Up Funds To Buy Beachfront Lots In Brazil
For the past few years, I've been working systematically to consolidate my existing real estate holdings... while, at the same...
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Why Planning Is Vital For Long-Term Property Investments
In preparation for our recent move to Paris, my husband Harry and I had a plan. Because we were visiting...
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We’ve Entered The Golden Age For Global Property Investing
We've been beating this drum lately, but I'll make the point here again, one more time, for the record: We...
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What To Look For In A Rental Management Agency Overseas
Any global real estate investment portfolio should include at least one rental property. A rental investment won't make you rich,...
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6 Steps To A Successful Overseas Property Investment
The advantages and rewards of buying and owning property overseas are greater right now than ever before in our lifetime....
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Top Countries Where U.S. Dollars Get You A Big Discount
If you're holding U.S. dollars, 2019 is the best year in a long time for harnessing your buying power abroad....
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Why I Focus On Real Estate Price And Not Exchange Rate
I don’t usually pay attention to exchange rates on a daily basis. However, being in Europe for the last month,...
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Some Helpful Tips Before You Buy Real Estate In Portugal
While I feel very lucky to wake up every day in my new Portuguese home, it took more than good...
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Read This If You’re Thinking Of Buying Or Renting In Portugal
As one of the most unassuming countries of Europe today, it’s easy to forget the power trip that Portugal enjoyed...
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Our Tavira, Portugal, Real Estate Property Buying Adventure
How We Ended Up In Tavira When my husband and I decided we were moving to Portugal to the Algarve......
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Why A Farm In Portugal Should Be Your Next Investment
As they say, it can be better to be lucky than to be smart. Best case, of course, is when...
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Portugal Investments Offering Up Profit And Peace Of Mind
Driving from Lisbon to Lagos yesterday afternoon, as I’ve done several times in the past when coming to the Algarve...
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Welcome To “Little Miami”! Life As An Expat In Salinas, Ecuador
Until 2008, Salinas and this country’s coast were part of Guayaquil Province. As a result, the coast was largely overlooked....
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Where To Find The Best Real Estate Buys In Portugal
Broad market statistics show that property prices in Portugal bottomed out in the first quarter of 2015. I bought an...
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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...
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Inventive Developers Identify Niche Market In Panama City
One Panama City developer has identified a real estate market niche that no other developer has noticed. I think of...
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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...
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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...
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The 6 Best Markets For Investing In 2019
Yesterday, Lief Simon shared his picks for top property investment markets in 2019. Today, I'd like to share mine... Brazil...
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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...
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9 Reasons Why Real Estate Overseas Is A Great Investment
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...
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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...
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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...
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4 Amazing Properties In The Seaside Town Of Salinas, Ecuador
In 2013, I visited Ecuador as part of my personal search for an overseas home. After attending the Live and...
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Agricultural Investment: Relax And Watch Your Profits Grow
In your new life overseas, you could support yourself by going to work for someone else... but who wants a...
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Low Cost Of Living And Great Lifestyle In Abruzzo, Italy
Abruzzo is fantastically cheap. You can eat like royalty here on a pittance. So much (pasta... wine... oil...) is produced...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Exploring Abruzzo, Italy, To Find The Perfect Place To Live
The decision to buy a house in Abruzzo was an easy one for me—it was figuring out the exact location...
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A Placencia, Belize, Primer: Communities, Costs, And Condos
If Belize has been on your radar, focusing on Placencia couldn't come at a better time. Seventeen miles of white-sand...
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Why Panama City’s Property Market Is Unlike Anywhere Else
Over the weekend, Lief and I traveled from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where we hosted last week's Offshore Wealth Summit, to...
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Puerto Vallarta South: Tranquil Luxury And Enviable Views
Vallarta South—The Town Richard Burton Put On The Map The city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and its famous Centro and...
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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....
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