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Shopping For Yields

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
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Shopping For Yields

“Did you know that you can buy good houses for just $50,000 in the Miami area?” reports a friend. “I’m beginning to think that property is the best investment I can make now. Stocks could fall another 50%. I’ve got municipal bonds, but who knows what towns are going broke. I don’t trust the dollar. What else can I do?

“I buy a decent house, and I know what I’ve got. And right now, I can rent those $50,000 houses for $1,000 a month. So, figuring I miss a few months, I’ll get a gross return of 20% per year. I pay my expenses for half that. So I’m getting a very good yield…”

Sounds like a solid plan to me.

That is, this sounds like the start of a very solid investment strategy. I don’t trust the dollar, either…so, by all means, buy those $50,000 Miami rentals…then look further afield for other income-producing real estate investment options, as well.

For the past decade, it’s been tough to make a decent return as a landlord. Property values rose too high. In most markets, a disconnect developed between the cost of a house (or apartment or condo) and the amount of monthly rent it could command. Net rental returns shriveled.

Now, property prices are falling in key markets…and, again, in key markets, rental demand is increasing…expanding rental returns to very attractive proportions.

I told you last week about five markets where purchase prices are falling and rental rates are holding steady or better. If you’re shopping the globe right now for yield-producing real estate opportunities (as you should be), take a look first at Panama, Nicaragua, Paris, and Portugal’s Algarve.

In addition, I told you this week about a particular opportunity to buy for yields at a greatly reduced and appealingly low cost of entry on the island of Boracay in the Philippines. Each unit comes with a guaranteed yield from rental of 7.8% per year for three years. Bank financing is available. This is a hotel-condo project on both a beach and a golf course. Fully turn-key, with rental and property management on site and each unit sold furnished at no additional cost.

Crisis investing opportunities are emerging quick around the world. Those that allow you to buy at a substantial discount while, at the same time, setting yourself up for income in a market with a rental track record are among the most interesting.

Our scouts are searching out more of them as I write. Watch this space.

Kathleen Peddicord

P.S. Also this week:

  • What can the overseas investor learn from Madoff and Stanford? Eight things, specifically…
  • 10 steps to launching a new business in a Caribbean paradise…
  • Intrepid correspondent Paul Terhorst checks in from the road: “Vicki and I are traveling through rural China in southwest Yunnan province,” writes intrepid Correspondent Paul Terhorst. “Tibet and the Himalayas are just up the road a ways.”Immaculate villages with their adobe-brick houses line the river valleys. Below the villages and closer to the river, farmers tend small plots of beans, tobacco, rapeseed, and herbs. Dali, for example, is an historic jewel. Life here is so pleasant that the thought does occur to you: Maybe this wouldn’t be a bad place to settle down…to retire. Perhaps 50 Westerners have already done so, so you wouldn’t be the first.
  • When trying a place on for size, to determine whether it might be the overseas retirement haven with your name on it, we say: Rent before you buy.Maybe rent, period. In the wake of the tumble and even collapse of property markets around the world, maybe you don’t want to mess with investing in real estate at all as part of your retire overseas plans. Renting long-term, rather than owning, leaves you mobile and flexible. No maintenance, no repairs, no property taxes…Understand, though, that even renting abroad can come with complications you may not expect. Here are 11 things to know before you sign a lease in a foreign country.

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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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