Tag: Invest

One sunny summer afternoon in 2012 I had the most expensive lunch of my life. Kathleen, the kids, and I ...

Risk-taking is personal. Everyone has his threshold. Most people take few risks in their lives. They go with the comfortable ...

Julia, our Simon Letter Managing Editor, is a first-generation Panama immigrant. In fact, she was the first person in her ...

Why... how... and where.Those are the three big questions to answer as you consider the world map in the context ...

Would you like to know my definition of "wealthy"? For me, wealthy is when the cash flow from your investments ...

We believe real estate is the best asset you can hold to protect and grow your wealth. We believe that ...

This month we introduce our first-ever Global Property Investment Index. It’ll be an annual affair. The objective is to present ...

When we arrived in Waterford in 1998 and decided we wanted to own a home of our own there, we ...

Given a budget of US$150,000, how would you start your global property portfolio? Each year at our annual Global Property ...

Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all ...

In a make-or-break year like 2021, it’s critical to make the smartest possible investment choices. Property is a safe bet, ...

I knew Panama had been hit hard by the pandemic, but hearing about the challenges and living them are two ...

What a dicey year. Just when we thought our respective countries had a grip on the pandemic, a second or ...

After four months in northern Illinois, Kathleen and I are taking our leave of these United States this weekend. That ...

One skill that is extremely beneficial for living, traveling and investing overseas is the ability to speak multiple languages. Being ...

What Am I...Crazy? I've Been Called Worse Years ago, when my son was young, I was the leader for his ...

Rental Returns Of More Than 20% Per Year? Yes...In This Top Property Investment Market That Nobody Is Paying Attention To (Yet) Early ...

Friendly, Pleasant, Welcoming, Safe, And Cheap—This City Is Not What You Think It Is We started the afternoon with a ...

The Gloves Are Off—Panama City And Medellin Toe-To-Toe The best way to approach the challenge of deciding where in the world ...

A Glimpse Of Panama Behind The Curtain (As Only Lief Simon Could Provide) At first, launching a new life in a ...

No More Rat Race—One More Case For Panama While Lief and others from our Panama City office have spent the ...

What Every Retiree And Investor Should Know About Panama “I don't care why you're here this week looking at Panama,” ...

Live From Panama—I'm Not There...Maybe You're Not There Either...But We Don't Have To Miss Out “I just spoke with a ...

Top 8 Property Investment Markets For 2014 U.S. markets are heady and uncertain. The most important agenda for any U.S. ...

How To Buy Real Estate In France “Which part of France are you going to visit?” “The Dordogne, the Limousin, ...

Belize Real Estate Round-up Belize is a small country (about the size of Massachusetts) that offers amazing geographic and ecological ...

Reciprocity, Baby! Panama is truly a convenient place to live if you want to travel around Latin America. A recent ...

Last Chance To Own At Los Islotes For Zero Down, 0% Interest Full disclosure: This is something of a family ...

More Than 20,000 Real-Life Success Stories And Counting A reporter recently got in touch to ask how many people I've inspired ...

How To Retire Overseas, Part 2 Dec. 30, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland: The key to finding the right place for you to ...

How To Retire Overseas, Part 1 On this final Sunday of 2013, I challenge you to get up and get ...

What I Really Think About Life In Panama City Georgia M. wrote from the United States this week to say: ...

Become King (Or Queen) Of Your Own Castle And Earn A Guaranteed Return Of 10% Per Year For 15 Years ...

From Swamp To Marsh To Magnifique—Life In Paris' Historic Marais The Marais literally means "marsh," and that is exactly what this ...

Three Places To Live The American Retirement Dream Overseas Perhaps you like the idea of stretching your retirement dollars as ...

Innovation In The City Of Knowledge: Panama In what amounts to their freshman year of high school, students in the ...

Four Questions You Must Know Before Buying Property Overseas Having never been to a place before, how do you find ...

  I’ll be mercifully brief today. I’m on my way out the door of our office to walk over to ...

This City Of Gentle People Remains A Top Retirement Choice This month’s Overseas Retirement Letter, in subscribers’ e-mailboxes now, features ...

La Belle France (Your New Life Here Could Be More Affordable Than You Think) In rural France, businesses and shops ...

A Paris Perspective I wrote the feature article for this month’s issue of my Panama Letter (on Casco Viejo, due ...

Celebrating 200 Years Of Freedom And Memories Of Things Forgotten In Santa Fe De Antioquia It’s a big year for ...

Where To Buy On Ecuador’s Coast “MLS? We don’t got no stinkin’ MLS!” Mike Sager reminded the group in Ecuador ...

Your Turn-Key Retirement Plan For The World’s Most Affordable Place To Retire Well “You’ve heard about Cuenca before, I’m sure,” ...

From California To Guayaquil—How One Family Reinvented Their Ho-Hum Lives Into A Grand Adventure Lief and I couldn’t be in Ecuador ourselves, ...

Best Beaches Of Panama Compared One of Panama's greatest assets is its beachfront. This is a little country with two ...

Funding Your New Life Overseas Affording retirement is on all of our minds. How are you going to be able ...

The Most Important Retire Overseas Event Of The Year—This Week In San Antonio I will be mercifully brief this morning. ...

The Most Important Prediction I've Made In Nearly 30 Years I don't like to admit it, even to myself, but, ...