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How To Tell If You’ve Found Your Ideal Home Overseas

The Secret To More Money And A Better Retirement

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Mar 05, 2020
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Before you’re ready to retire, you’re likely to notice places around the world where you’d like to be able to spend time. Not just once every several years or so in a hotel, but more regularly, as often as possible, in the company of your family and friends, and in a place of your own.

When you identify a destination that meets this description, I recommend you take stock of its bigger picture, considering, first, whether that destination is also a place where you think you might like to spend time in retirement and, second, if the real estate market there presents potential for capital appreciation or cash flow.

If the answer to either of those questions is yes (and certainly if the answer to both of those questions is yes), then you’ve found your ideal second home overseas.

In Lief’s and my case, this line of thinking has led us to several purchases over the years… in Panama, in Colombia, in Belize, in France, and, most recently, in Portugal. These are all places we’d like to be able to return regularly, including long term, as part of our eventual “retirement” plan.

In addition, in each case, we’ve identified the potential for value appreciation over time, portfolio diversification, and, in some cases, cash flow from an active rental market to boot.

And, in each case, this perfect storm of opportunity, as we think of it, is what has motivated us to take action… to stake our small claim.

When it comes time to flip the switch to retirement, Lief and I hope to have organized our lives so that we’re able to move around during that phase of life among the handful of destinations where we most enjoy spending time, as I’ve suggested above, with established infrastructure in each so that we can come and go as residents, not tourists, with friends and connections, social circles, and, important to us, homes of our own.

When making your own plan for retirement overseas, the starting point, key to the success of the adventure, is to be honest with yourself as to what kind of lifestyle you’re after.

When Lief and I ask ourselves what kind of lifestyle we want in retirement, the answer is: varied. City and coastal, Caribbean and highland, spring and summer, fall and winter, developed and emerging, sophisticated and raw, refined and gritty, we appreciate it all.

So we’ve conceived a retirement plan that we’ve been working for some years to engineer that will allow us to enjoy it all, perpetually, in turns.

Whatever your plan, I encourage you to start developing it as soon as possible. An easy first step can be the purchase of a piece of property in a locale where you want to be able to spend time now and that you think eventually could become part of your retirement plan.

Meantime, whenever you’re not using the property yourself, it could be generating cash flow from rental, and, over time, it could be increasing in value, too. Your future retirement residence could be a nicely appreciating asset on your balance sheet.

That’s the ideal situation, the global property investing trifecta—when the holiday home-cum-retirement plan you buy also qualifies as an investment. Identifying and following through on such a multi-agenda purchase will be one important topic of discussion during our 7th Annual Global Property Summit, taking place in Cancún, Mexico, May 13–15.

In addition, we’ll be using our 2020 Global Property Summit as a forum to look closely at the 14 most appealing property investment markets in the world today and to showcase more than 20 different current offers, at least one of which you can get in on with less than US$6,480.

But, again, that’s just one piece of this picture.

That’s why the program we’ve conceived for this once-a-year event will focus on many opportunities and agendas beyond straight-up profits, yields, and cash flow. Buying real estate overseas is about making money, but it’s also about reinventing your life and saving your retirement.

This is about fun and profit… making money but also living better.

Meet me and the entire Live and Invest Overseas team of property experts in Cancún in May, and we’ll take up this important conversation together in earnest.

We open registration for this year’s Global Property Summit today.

I hope to meet you there.

Kathleen Peddicord

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Kathleen Peddicord

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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