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Top Overseas Property Markets For 2016

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Dec 06, 2015
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My 5 Favorite Property Markets For 2016

A reporter from Realtor.com contacted me this week to ask about my top 5 picks for property purchase overseas.

Here’s what I told her:

#1: Medellín, Colombia

One of my favorite cities in the world in a country whose prospects I’m more bullish on all the time, Medellín is a top choice right now for both lifestyle and investment. My husband Lief and I bought and renovated an apartment in Medellín’s El Poblado neighborhood five years ago. We look forward to every chance and any excuse to spend time in this pretty, pleasant, safe, Euro-chic city and, in fact, will be enjoying part of this year’s holiday season here with our kids.

The retiree couldn’t ask for a more comfortable or more fully appointed place to call home… and the investor couldn’t ask for better upside potential. Plus, right now, thanks to the raging greenback, which buys more Colombian pesos today than it has in more than seven years, everything in Colombia is dramatically discounted for the buyer with U.S. dollars in his wallet.

For all these reasons, we’re convening our 5th annual Live and Invest in Colombia Conference in Medellín April 20–22. Details on how to attend as a VIP are here.

#2: Algarve, Portugal

Portugal’s sunny coastal Algarve region is charming, historic, beautiful, English-speaking, and safe. Right now, it’s also a global bargain, thanks to a depressed property market (which has yet to recover post-2008) and a weak euro. This is my top pick for the retiree who wants an Old World, Continental lifestyle. Also a great choice for golfers (the Algarve region boasts 40 courses) and boaters.

Investors should be paying attention, as well, as, again, prices are undervalued and rental returns are good. This is one of Europe’s most popular tourist destinations.

#3: Argentina

We’re watching for this country to turn the corner post-Cristina. When recently elected pragmatist Mauricio Macri takes office, we think change for the better will follow quickly. This is a time, therefore, to be shopping in this country that offers one of the world’s premier brand-name cities in Buenos Aires and our favorite place for life among the vines in Mendoza.

#4: Ambergris Caye, Belize

My top choice in the Caribbean, Ambergris Caye is fringed with white sand, developed enough to be comfortable but not so developed as to be packaged, and English-speaking. The expat community is big and growing, and the barrier reef just offshore is the second largest in the world.

These are just a few of the reasons that our annual January Live and Invest in Belize Conference is nearly sold out. If you’d like to join us to see for yourself all that Belize has to offer, from Ambergris to Cayo, you should reserve your place in the room now.

#5: Panama

I’ve been including Panama on top 5 lists for more than 15 years. It still deserves the recognition. Property markets in Panama softened post 2008 but never collapsed. Panama has two secret weapons—diversified buying pools and the Panama Canal. Unlike other markets in this part of the world, Panama’s property markets are not at the mercy of what goes on in North America. This country attracts buyers and investors from the United States and Canada but also from across Central and South America, Europe, China, and beyond.

In addition, Panama has its own cash machine in the form of the Panama Canal. This is a country of about 3.5 million people. The Panama Canal returns more than US$500 million to the national treasury every year. After the Panama Canal expansion, that figure will increase to more than US$1 billion per year. In a country this size, that’s a lot of money.

From a lifestyle perspective, one of Panama’s big advantages, again, is diversity. From cosmopolitan Panama City to a Pacific coast, a Caribbean coast, many offshore islands, mountain towns, and rural escapes, Panama offers most any setting you could imagine.

Right now, U.S. dollar-holders have a big advantage in much of the world, from euro-land to Colombia and beyond. However, if you’re a dollar-holder who doesn’t want to have to worry about exchange rates, which move both ways, of course, Panama takes that risk off the table.

We’ll showcase all that Panama has to offer with the help of colleagues and contacts here on the ground at our next Live and Invest in Panama Conference, planned for June 8–10, 2016.

Meantime, we’re preparing a round-up of all our favorite markets for this month’s year-end issue of my Overseas Retirement Letter. If you’re a subscriber, watch for this bumper issue in your e-mailbox on the 15th of the month, as always.

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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