Real Estate

Buenos Aires is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Although most surnames are Spanish or Italian, the...

However you feel about sand between your toes, as an investor, the beach is your ally. Especially when that beach...

There's no single secret to making money from a rental property overseas. Instead, four factors need to come together to...

Of all the investment options out there, why put your money into real estate? For international real estate guru Lief...

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...

On stage yesterday for the opening morning of this week’s Global Property Summit taking place in Panama City, with the...

This morning, Lief and I took to the stage in the meeting rooms of the Playa Bonita Beach Resort just...

I'm watching the latest season of "Tiny House Nation" on Netflix. If you've never seen the show, each episode follows...

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

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

How do I assess the potential risks of a real estate investment opportunity I'm considering making in another country? That...

One sunny summer afternoon in 2012 I had the most expensive lunch of my life. Kathleen, the kids, and I...

In 2014, we reported for the first time on a group in Panama developing an organic fruit tree plantation and...

In the summer of 2005, I took a day trip with friends and work colleagues to Isla Contadora—one of the...

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

This month’s issue of my Global Property Advisor has a theme: It reveals a series of opportunities that share a common target...

My latest agriculture discovery is in Europe... But it's not a vineyard. It's a truffle plantation. What's a truffle? Well,...

For the past few years, I've been working systematically to consolidate my existing real estate holdings... while, at the same...

In preparation for our recent move to Paris, my husband Harry and I had a plan. Because we were visiting...

We've been beating this drum lately, but I'll make the point here again, one more time, for the record: We...

Any global real estate investment portfolio should include at least one rental property. A rental investment won't make you rich,...

The advantages and rewards of buying and owning property overseas are greater right now than ever before in our lifetime....

If you're holding U.S. dollars, 2019 is the best year in a long time for harnessing your buying power abroad....

I don’t usually pay attention to exchange rates on a daily basis. However, being in Europe for the last month,...

While I feel very lucky to wake up every day in my new Portuguese home, it took more than good...

As one of the most unassuming countries of Europe today, it’s easy to forget the power trip that Portugal enjoyed...

How We Ended Up In Tavira When my husband and I decided we were moving to Portugal to the Algarve......

As they say, it can be better to be lucky than to be smart. Best case, of course, is when...

Driving from Lisbon to Lagos yesterday afternoon, as I’ve done several times in the past when coming to the Algarve...

Until 2008, Salinas and this country’s coast were part of Guayaquil Province. As a result, the coast was largely overlooked....

Broad market statistics show that property prices in Portugal bottomed out in the first quarter of 2015. I bought an...

Generally speaking, a successful residential rental investment will give you net yields of between 5% and 8% a year. I've...

One Panama City developer has identified a real estate market niche that no other developer has noticed. I think of...

At lunch yesterday, a friend in town for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference broke out his phone and started...

Yesterday, Lief Simon shared his picks for top property investment markets in 2019. Today, I'd like to share mine... Brazil...

If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...

Agricultural production using aquaponics technology is on the rise… and so is the cost of investing in the opportunity that...

Where in the world can you obtain bank financing as a foreigner for the purchase of real estate? I get...

In 2013, I visited Ecuador as part of my personal search for an overseas home. After attending the Live and...

In your new life overseas, you could support yourself by going to work for someone else... but who wants a...

Abruzzo is fantastically cheap. You can eat like royalty here on a pittance. So much (pasta... wine... oil...) is produced...

2018 has been a great year for us global property investors... And it's not over yet. In fact, I'd say...

At the Retire Overseas Conference we hosted a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, the question I was most frequently...

Panama City property values have been impressively resilient over the past 10 years. The global real estate crisis of 2008...

The decision to buy a house in Abruzzo was an easy one for me—it was figuring out the exact location...

If Belize has been on your radar, focusing on Placencia couldn't come at a better time. Seventeen miles of white-sand...

Over the weekend, Lief and I traveled from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where we hosted last week's Offshore Wealth Summit, to...

Vallarta South—The Town Richard Burton Put On The Map The city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and its famous Centro and...

As longtime readers know, 99% of my investment portfolio is in real estate. Yet my overriding mantra is: Diversification, diversification,...