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Find Out The Top 5 Panama Property Markets In 2020

5 Ways To Make Money In Panama In 2020

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jan 26, 2020
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As we discussed on Friday, Panama remains one of the best places in the world to live or retire overseas this 2020.

It’s also one of the world’s safest investment havens.

This despite the fact that the death of Panama’s property markets has been rumored for the last dozen years at least.

Starting in 2003 and continuing through 2008, this country enjoyed a mega construction boom. Then came the crash of real estate markets around the globe. Would-be investors worried about the unfinished projects in Panama at the time, especially in Panama City.

Panama developers were forced to adjust. No longer able to sell at frothy pre-2008 prices, they retreated to “what the market would pay.” What they found was that, while their profit margins were constricted, they were still able to turn over inventory.

Most affected was the top end of the market. The highest-priced projects in 2008 suffered the biggest reductions in pricing, of course. Some buildings underway were delayed. Others in planning stages didn’t get off the ground.

However, the market in general carried on. In hindsight, we can say that apartment prices fell 25% on average in the best neighborhoods, particularly for newly completed buildings.

Meantime, though, rental rates remained strong for those who were able to take possession of their apartments, and prices recovered quickly.

What’s the scene on the ground for this market 12 years later?

To answer that question, we invited top Panama property pros, investors, and developers to join Lief on stage for last week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference.

Today this marketplace is far more niched than it was a dozen years ago. Panama City, for example, like any city of a million-and-a-half people, is many different markets, some offering more potential and upside than others.

In 2003, you could have bought almost anything in Panama and felt confident that you’d earn a good or better return. That’s no longer the case. Today you need to target your investment search.

Where, specifically, should you be shopping? On the opening morning of last week’s conference, our own Evie Brooks, Director of our Access Panama group, identified five top markets in particular:

Top Panama Market #1: Avenida Balboa

Avenida Balboa, where Lief and I made our first property investment in this country 18 years ago, continues to offer opportunity. This frontline strip along the Bay of Panama has always been and will always be one of the city’s best addresses. Pricing continues up even as new buildings and more inventory continue to appear along this oceanside boulevard. An apartment on Avenida Balboa will always find a buyer or a renter, as the case may be.

One building under construction right now in particular offers a great opportunity for early investors.

Top Panama Market #2: Costa Del Este

The other area in the city offering strong investment potential in 2020 is Costa del Este. This master-planned suburb is the focus of many top Panama developers who are hard at work building both houses and apartment towers, as well as commercial space.

In addition, this is also the area where many (most) of the many thousands of expat workers moving to Panama City for jobs with the dozens of international companies that have set up and continue to be set up in and around Panama’s capital are looking to live… especially if they are coming with families.

Prices in Costa del Este can be some of the highest in the city, but demand remains strong. Buying pre-construction either to sell or to rent at completion can be an effective and profitable strategy.

Top Panama Market #3: Veracruz

Outside the city, other dynamics are playing out and creating opportunity.

Thanks to the anticipated new (fourth) bridge over the Canal, the Veracruz neighborhood, which sits on the coast behind Panama Pacifico, is smack-dab in the path of progress. This is one of my favorite up-and-coming zones for a rental investment. It’s the nearest beach area to the city but has traditionally been overlooked by both tourists and investors.

Several we invited to participate in last week’s conference presented opportunities specifically in this prime location.

Top Panama Market #4: Penonomé

Penonomé, a couple of hours outside Panama City, is another location in this country enjoying rapid growth as new industry comes online.

Penonomé is a breadbasket, an agricultural base in this country and home today to key agricultural investment opportunities.

In addition, a large copper mine is opening up. This will increase local employment and bring in big volumes of foreign workers, all of whom will need somewhere to live.

Top Panama Market #5: Puerto Armuelles

The final growth market highlighted during last week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference was Puerto Armuelles.

When Chiquita pulled out of this coastal region in 2003, the local economy collapsed and the population decamped.

News flash: Del Monte is moving in. Last year, Panama President Varela hosted a celebration of the company’s first banana shipment from the dock here.

“Puerto Armuelles is reborn,” he said.

Property prices in the area have been rising in recent years in anticipation of this event, but we’ll see significant upside from here.

Kathleen Peddicord

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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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