In all my 40 years of experience covering the live and retire overseas beat, one country has stood out above all the others.
I named this country the world’s #1 overseas retirement haven for the first time in 2001.
It remains one of the best place in the world to reinvent your life overseas in retirement today… with some caveats.
This country is also…
• A tax haven. As a foreign resident, you can pay zero local tax… and you can operate your business here tax-free, too…
• One of the easiest and most advantaged places in the world to establish residency, thanks to a suite of the world’s best residency options…
• Home to the smartest beach, river, and mountain property buys anywhere on
the planet…
• The best place in the world to base your business. I speak from long experience when I tell you that this is an entrepreneur’s playground…
• One place in the world that’s enjoying continued growth and prosperity and that is positioned for a whole lot more of the same over the coming decade…
• A great place to call home… a beach-lover’s delight… and an eco-traveler’s paradise…
• The ultimate escape. Based here, you and your family no longer need to worry about what’s going on in the rest of the world.
Can you guess what country I’m talking about?
Panama!
I’ve been making the case for the Hub of the Americas for more than 20 years, and I’m writing today to tell you that I’m more bullish on the opportunities and upsides on offer in Panama than ever before.
Bottom line, if you are in the market for a place to live, retire, invest, or do business overseas, you’re doing yourself a big disservice if you aren’t looking closely at this little isthmus.
Too much of the world is struggling through troubled and uncertain times right now, but you’d never know it in Panama. This remains a fast-moving, ever-expanding market… a land of opportunity… and an ultimate safe haven.
How can a country so small bring so much to the table?
That’s what my team and I have been sharing with your fellow readers gathered here in Panama City for our 16th annual Live And Invest Overseas Panama Conference which gets underway today.
Over our decades in Panama, Lief and I have bought pre-construction for investment and centuries-old French-colonial for renovation…
We’ve managed rentals, both tourist and commercial…
We’ve bought land for banking and for development, including on this country’s Veraguas coast where we’re developing a luxury beachfront community at Los Islotes.
We’ve also started businesses, formed corporations, and opened bank accounts…
We’ve established permanent residency…
We’ve hired staff, shipped household belongings, sourced architects and carpenters, paid local bills, researched health insurance options, bought cars (because we finally had enough of dealing with Panama City taxi drivers!), gotten local driver’s licenses, even started a local franchise…
And our experiences in this tropical haven are only the beginning.
We have enormous depth and breadth of experience in Panama… but our perspective is only that—our perspective.
To form a full picture of the opportunities on offer for living, retiring, investing, and doing business in Panama, you should access many perspectives.
Which is exactly the opportunity presented here in Panama City this week.
When proceedings get underway today, my top Panama experts, contacts, colleagues, and friends have been unveiling decades of boots-on-the-ground real-world experience to this savvy group.
These are my trusted personal advisors on every aspect of making a move or an investment in this country… from taxes, banking, trusts, and corporations to residency requirements, investor incentives, business ideas, financing, and insurance. People you can count on to help you accomplish whatever you’re hoping to accomplish in this country safely and efficiently.
They’re fully at the disposal of those gathered here for this very special event.
And here’s the good news for you…
They can be at your disposal too—and you don’t even have to get off the sofa to connect with them all.
With a Panama Virtual Pass you can join in on the action here in Panama City from the comfort of your own home. It’s the next best thing to being in the room and allows you to make vital in-country connections, put your questions to the experts, and listen in on every presentation live from Panama City.
And you don’t need to worry about the presentations you’ve missed so far either. Your Virtual Pass also grants you access to a complete recordings package of our entire 2025 Panama event so you can watch back at your leisure at a time that suits you best.
Don’t miss another minute. Request your Panama Virtual Pass now and I look forward to connecting with you online shortly.
Until next time,
Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher, Overseas Opportunity Letter
