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Finding A Home In Panama

At Home In Panama—The World’s Top Retirement Haven

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
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It’s the most recent in a long history of Panama picks.

I’ve made a career of scouting the globe to identify interesting places for people to spend time and money.

My first recommendation was Costa Rica, in the mid-1980s, followed by Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras…

In 1996 I sent my property scout Bob Fordi to Panama City. “This place is shaping up to become the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetimes,” he reported.

“And right now it’s a screaming bargain.”

I visited for the first time later that year. Over the decades to follow, I put Panama on the map for global retirees and investors.

I started by covering the sale of former U.S. miliary housing. After the turnover of the Canal, Panama owned this inventory. They put officers’ homes in Clayton and Albook on the market for US$20,000. Today these sell for a million dollars and more.

Next I targeted Avenida Balboa in Panama City, then Coronado and the City Beaches, Panama Pacifico, and Costa del Este. Homes and condos I recommended in those spots two decades ago are worth multiples as much now.

I toured Boquete with U.S. developer Sam Taliaferro in 2000. He showed me the valley he intended to purchase to create the world’s first expat retiree community. I reported on Valle Escondido in real time and named Boquete the world’s best place to retire overseas in 2001.

The AARP claimed the same of this flower-covered valley of eternal spring in 2010.

From the capital city, the nearby beaches, and the central highlands, I expanded my Panama search to the east coast of the Azuero Peninsula. I told readers in the market for a comfortable, affordable retirement and investors shopping for an undervalued beach property play to look at Pedasí. I predicted this beach town was set to boom and it did.

The Next Big Thing In Panama

Then, in 2008, Lief and I identified the next big thing in Panama—the other side of the Azuero Peninsula, this country’s Veraguas coast. On this Sunset Coast we doubled down on Panama with the purchase of Los Islotes. We’re all in on Panama.

This year we’ve returned our focus—and yours—to this little powerhouse of a nation that continues to stack up in every way.

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Twenty-seven years after my original Panama recommendation, we’re not the only ones who think so.

Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, and The New York Times all have published articles within the past few months spotlighting particularly appealing aspects of life in this hub of the Americas.

The New York Times piece published just a few weeks ago recognized Panama City as the world’s “unsung cosmopolitan capital.”

I’ve just finished a new book sharing Lief and my experiences in Panama these past two-and-a-half decades. This tell-all is a real behind-the-scenes, insider’s guide to the real Panama—the good, the bad, and the maddening.

We know Panama from every angle and aspect. We’ve bought pre-construction condos, renovated historic buildings, invested in residential and commercial rentals, purchased productive land and teak plantations, and, at Los Islotes, settled in for the very long haul.

No place is perfect. But at this stage of our lives, Lief and I could be anywhere doing anything…

And we continue to choose Panama.

If you’ve yet to take a position in this country, I suggest you take a close look right now. The opportunities on the table for the retiree, the investor, the entrepreneur, and the adventurer are irresistible.

Get started here now.

Until next time,
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Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher, Overseas Opportunity Letter

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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