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This Summer, Istanbul…Macedonia…And Beyond

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jun 29, 2014
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A summer in Macedonia can't be complete without a visit to the Macedonia Eye Bridge (depicted) and Art Bridge.
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This Summer, Istanbul…Macedonia…And Beyond

Lief and my travel schedule is dictated by our son Jackson’s school calendar. Jack had his final exam of the year Friday afternoon…which means this weekend we take off for two months on the road.

First stop, Istanbul.

Lief and I traveled to this city for the first time during our honeymoon years ago. We returned for a quick visit last summer, when we decided this is a place we’d like to know better. In the 12 months since, Turkey and Istanbul have become higher-profile. “The biggest opportunity we’ve seen in the last 50 years”…”a white-hot real estate market exploding with profits”…”an investor’s utopia”…etc., read marketing brochures.

Our focus, of course, will be real estate. We’ve planned meetings with the hope of trying to vet the current property scene in Istanbul. This market bottomed out mid-2009. Since then, some reports show that values have appreciated 75% and continue up. Right now, the average per-square-meter cost for an apartment in Istanbul’s city center, according to the reconnaissance I’ve got, is about 5,000 Turkish lira (or US$2,300/US$2,400). That’s not super cheap, but if it proves the reality for best-of-city locations, it’s a bargain in Euro-terms. Lief and I will report back to confirm.

And, if values, properties, and locations are as they’ve been represented, we may also consider buying one of this city’s waterfront apartments ourselves. For us, this is as much a personal decision as an investment, given our honeymoon connection and our instinctive appreciation for Istanbul’s history, geographic location, and Continental-chic lifestyle. We’ve learned through long experience that buys that meet both personal and investment criteria are the most successful long-term…one reason Istanbul is at the top of our list currently.

From Istanbul we plan a quick stopover in Macedonia. This is a tiny country at a dramatic turning point in its history. We like little countries working hard to make a place for themselves on the world stage, so we’re going to take a look at what Macedonia is up to.

Later in July we’ll be in Nicaragua (to vet current property offerings and to finalize plans for the Live and Invest in Nicaragua Adventure we’ve added to this year’s events calendar) and in the Cayman Islands (to vet new banking, tax, and structures resources).

The first two weeks of August we’ll be in Belize with our kids. Our agenda for this leg is kayaking, canoeing, hiking, river-tubing, horseback riding, and spelunking. We hope to be as unplugged as is possible for a family to be these days. Two weeks without X-Box, Netflix, Skype, or Facebook sounds like just what the doctor ordered to this mom.

We’ll finish the summer in Nashville, where Lief and I will be co-hosting our Fourth Annual Retire Overseas Conference Aug. 29–31. We’re two months out from the event and have more than 200 attendees registered. They and we will be joined by more than four-dozen speakers, correspondents, expats, and friends from around the world for three days of discussion and discovery. I’m very much looking forward to it. Never been to Music City before.

I’m also looking forward to the eight weeks between then and now. I won’t be MIA the whole time, but Lief and I are hoping to be offline for a couple of extended periods. Specifically, the coming two weeks in Istanbul and the first two weeks of August in Cayo, Belize.

Don’t get too excited. You’re not off the hook entirely. I’ve enlisted reinforcements.

Starting tomorrow and continuing through mid-July, you’ll hear each day not from me but longtime friend and fellow editor Lynn Mulvihill…whose efforts will be supported by correspondents Paul Terhorst, Wendy Justice, Lee Harrison, Rob Cary, Jocelyn Carnegie, Lucy Culpepper, and others who’ve offered to help hold down the fort while Lief and I try to be disconnected.

We will be in touch from the road in Istanbul and Macedonia from time to time. Look for us back in your inbox reliably again the week of July 14.

Meantime, enjoy your summer…and, if you haven’t yet, make your plans now to join us in Nashville. This is going to be the biggest and most important retire overseas event of the year and a whole lot of fun, to boot. Hope to see you there.

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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