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Real Estate Investing In Portugal At A Turning Point

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jul 10, 2015
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The Absolute Right Time To Act

In 2000, Lief traveled to the coast of Spain to scout. He wasn’t planning to buy anything, just to get a feel for the Spanish costas market at the time. Everyone he met everywhere he went, though, made the same point: It was a good time to be buying. So Lief did. Before he returned home from that trip, he signed the paperwork and made the first payment on a pre-construction apartment in the seaside town of Estepona.

He sold that apartment before having to close on the pre-construction purchase (meaning he didn’t have to come up with the big final payment) for an annualized return of 35% per year.

In 2002, Lief traveled to Buenos Aires. This time he did plan to buy. Argentina had removed the peg between the U.S. dollar and its peso, and the ensuing collapse created a window of opportunity to purchase property in this country for discounts of 50% and more off precrisis prices. In this case, Lief and partners bought three classic-style apartments in central Buenos Aires. These were spruced up and rented out and eventually resold, doubling investors’ money.

It isn’t often that you’re on the scene at precisely the right time to be investing, but, when you are, you should act, as Lief has done in the past and as he and I are preparing to do again now.

“We are here in Portugal at the absolute best time to be buying,” professed one property expert presenting at this week’s Live and Invest in Portugal Conference. “Prices are just beginning to stiffen. We’ve turned the corner, and values are going to appreciate from here. Moreover, the market is more active than it has been in eight years. Properties are turning over in weeks or months rather than months or years. Unless you are looking at commodity-level inventory, you need to move when you see something you like. It may not be available next month or even next week.

“The exception, again, is bread-and-butter properties. There is a lot of inventory of this kind of resort rental. But inventory of everything else is limited. There has been no new construction in this country to speak of since 2008. The supply today is the supply we had back then. People are beginning to think and plan for new developments now, but it will be a while before new inventory hits the market.”

Lief and I like markets at turning points, and Portugal is at a turning point. This country has been through a hard time. People here have been struggling. They aren’t sitting around complaining about the situation, though. They are using it as a chance to reinvent themselves and their country. Lots of innovation is coming into play, to do with residency visas, for example, and investor incentive programs.

Financing can be available, though it’s harder for a foreign buyer to borrow from a local bank today than pre-2008. In addition, bank foreclosures are an interesting opportunity and can qualify for 100% financing.

Most rentals can net 8% per year or better, as much as maybe 12% net per year, depending on what and where you buy and how effective the rental manager you engage.

The biggest frustration we’ve found so far is that it can be hard to get in to view properties this time of year. Everything is rented out.

That is, the rental occupancy claims are not exaggerated.

One important thing to research before purchasing are the tax implications, both in Portugal and, if you’re an American, in the United States. Portugal is not a low-tax jurisdiction, generally speaking, but it is possible to mitigate your local tax hit if you organize yourself properly, as Portuguese experts presenting at this week’s event have explained.

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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