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Live And Invest In Panama Conference Explores Top Options For Living, Retiring, Investing, And Starting A Business In Panama

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Apr 14, 2015
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Live And Invest In Panama Conference

These Folks Are Serious

These folks are serious.

The group with us in Panama City for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference is diverse. We’re enjoying the company these three days together, of retired couples, young singles, and families with small children… investors, entrepreneurs, and adventurers… in search of options for retiring better, getting out, starting over, diversifying, safeguarding, and protecting… hungry for opportunities for living well, making money, and having a good time.

And these aren’t daydreamers. These folks are doers.

One young couple is here with their 5-year-old son. “We’re staying on in the country through July,” they told me. “We’re going to visit with schools and try to determine exactly where we want to settle. Then we’ll go home to pack. We want to make our move and be back in Panama in time for our son to begin school next fall…”

Another couple, older, is likewise counting down to their move. “We’ve sold our house and rented a small place where we’ve been living while we’ve been working out our plan. We didn’t want anything holding us back, though, so we didn’t even install cable. A six-month cable contract seemed like too much of a commitment. We want to get this next phase of our lives started asap…”

One gentleman is here on his own. He’s not ready to make his move to Panama yet, but he’s got some assets he’d like to shift from home to here as quick as he can. “I don’t feel comfortable with everything I’ve got all confined within U.S. borders right now,” he says.

One nice lady is trying to identify the best place to retire as a single woman… another is comparing Panama with Belize… many in the room are contemplating starting a business in Panama… and most all are considering the idea of buying a piece of real estate in this country.

We’re making some big-picture points for these folks, then drilling down.

First, Panama City is not representative of Panama. Outside the city, this country is a different place—sleepier, less developed, and definitely cheaper.

“I’m glad you made the point in your opening remarks, Kathleen,” one attendee told me, “about Panama City not being cheap. I’ve been here a few days, and I’ve stopped in grocery stores and other shops, and it didn’t seem to me that prices were much lower than where I’m living in the United States. In some cases, prices were higher.”

Panama City is no longer a bargain, but real estate in Panama City can still be a good investment, especially when you think about what you’re buying.

Panama City is not the struggling Third World outpost it was when I first laid eyes on it. Panama City today is a city working hard to compete with the likes of Singapore and Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is the biggest free-trade zone in the world. Panama is the second biggest free-trade zone in the world. An apartment in downtown Hong Kong sells for nearly US$20,000 per square meter. A best-address apartment in Panama City sells for one-tenth as much (about US$2,000 per square meter).

How much more valuable will Panama City apartments become? This is a much-debated question. Post-2008, many called for the collapse of the Panama City property market. They were disappointed. The Panama City property market cooled, but it did not collapse. Today, many are saying the market is over-supplied and will cool again over the coming few years.

Maybe we’re amidst another downward blip in the Panama City property values chart.

Buy on the dips, as they say.

Where and what, specifically, makes sense for property investment in Panama City and elsewhere in this country exploding with opportunity? Our real estate resources on the ground are detailing the best current opportunities for those in the room with us this week. I’ll share some details tomorrow…

Kathleen Peddicord
Reporting live from the scene of this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference

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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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