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How To Filter The Best Real Estate Investment Opportunities Of 2010

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
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New Year, New Life, New World

2010 is your chance. 2010 is your year.

This is a great big world bursting with opportunity. Seize it.

Here’s the help you need to get started, the reassurance and expertise to launch your journey overseas. This is the best resource available anywhere to help you map out a plan for your new life in the overseas haven with your name on it.

Where should you be thinking about heading this New Year 2010?

We’ve identified the top and best-value options for living, investing, and retiring in all corners of this big, wonderful world, and the Overseas Retirement Letter is going to introduce you to every one of them with thoughtful, in-depth coverage written not by journalists or desk-side editors but longtime expats and correspondents who know each locale from firsthand experience.

We’ll bring you the most appealing beachside communities…mountain escapes…vineyard retreats…and everything in between…from Argentina to Belize, from Croatia to the Dominican Republic, from France to Malaysia, from Panama to Uruguay, from Chile to Vietnam…and beyond…

“Falling markets over the past 18-plus months have created crisis buy opportunities,” writes resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon, “for personal use and for investment. New Year 2010 is a year for action. I’ll present specific opportunities starting next week.

“Meantime…invest in a piece of real estate in another country? How do you get started?

“First, you ask yourself why you’re buying–for investment or for personal use. The answer may not be clear-cut. And the best case is when you find a piece of real estate that holds out the potential for an investment return (in the form of capital appreciation and/or a yield from rental) and that also happens to lie in a place where you want to spend time.

“State your objectives and exit strategy expectations clearly for yourself and for anyone else buying with you. Every decision you make related to the eventual purchase is affected by the property’s intended use. If you’re buying straight up for profit, things are simplified, as every decision is based on the numbers. If you’re buying for personal use, on the other hand, even part-time, you’ll make your choices based on many things, including some that can’t be quantified in a spreadsheet.

“Now that you understand why you’re buying, you need to decide where you want to buy what. I’m personally excited about the opportunities I see on offer as we enter 2010 and, again, will introduce you to them in coming days. How will I determine where I’ll put my own money this New Year? I make all my buy decisions after passing every opportunity through the following filters:

  • Path of Progress. This is a key factor when buying for investment but important if you’re buying a retirement or second home overseas, as well. What infrastructure improvements are planned? A new airport, new train station, new highway, new hospital, etc., can mean a new universe of potential buyers…which is good news if you’re buying as an investor looking to develop or to flip. These things, though, also translate to better living.
  • Inventory Supply and Demand. In Panama City, right now, for example, a glut of high-rise condos is coming online. These units were launched and sold pre-construction over the past two-plus years. Now they’re being delivered…and their volume is one reason Panama’s capital market continues to soften.
  • Costs of Acquisition. Remember that they go beyond agent commissions. Depending on the market, they can also include: legal fees, notary fees, registration fees, title insurance (we strongly recommend it), and transfer taxes (sometimes called “stamp duty”). In Ireland, for example, stamp duty can be as much as 9% of the purchase price.
  • Carrying Costs. Including: maintenance (a house on the beach requires a lot of it, for example); a caretaker (if you won’t be in residence full-time yourself); property taxes (not every country charges them, and, in some countries, they’re negligible); income taxes (if you’ll be earning rental income); capital gains taxes (when you eventually resell…again, not every country charges them); other local taxes; property management expense (you’ll need a property manager if you intend to rent); rental management expense (separate from property management and, again, necessary unless you’re going to manage all the details of your rental investment yourself…something I don’t advise); and homeowner’s association/building/condo fees.
  • Economic Outlook. Critical if you’re buying for investment, but you don’t want to ignore the market climate even if you’re buying purely for personal use. Markets move up and down…and then up again. At what point in this cycle is the market where you’re thinking about buying right now? In which direction is it moving?
  • Opportunity for Diversification. In terms of market, type of investment, type of property, and currency.
  • Budget and Cash Flow. Everything follows from this. Be clear on not only how much capital you have but also how much you want to put into any particular investment. Make this determination before you start shopping, and don’t forget to include the total costs of acquisition in your calculations.”

Kathleen Peddicord

P.S. Lief Simon has more than 12 years experience and an impressive track record buying and selling real estate around the world for profit. That’s why I was delighted last month when he agreed, after months of resistance, to work with us this New Year to produce a private global real estate investing service.

Why the reluctance? Lief knows better than anyone how much time and travel is involved with making a serious go of this. The scouting, the research, the on-the-ground time is considerable, more than Lief believed he’d be able to commit to.

Finally, however, Lief has agreed to reprioritize his current projects to make time to return to this beat. Details of the service he will provide are being finalized, and we’ll get them to you as quickly as we can. As Lief explains, 2010 is positioned to be a year of big opportunity. He’s keen to get started helping you to exploit as much of it as you can as soon as possible.

 

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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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