Tag: overseas

“Would you say this is a trend... and that it is growing?” the reporter who interviewed me this week wondered. ...

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

How do you get started investing in real estate overseas? To borrow a page from Nike’s playbook... You just do ...

This Is Not Your Parents' Retirement... 16 Reasons You Should Retire Overseas Dear Reader, Maybe your parents retired to Florida...or ...

"Kathleen, good article from Lief on using direct debit to pay bills overseas. We have used direct debit with banks ...

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 ...

Who Should Retire Overseas Where? Where should you retire overseas? Or, considered from a different angle, who should retire overseas ...

Full Medical Coverage For Just US$70 Per Month In This Top Retirement Haven The Ecuador government has made a decision ...

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. ...

Turn-Key, Comfortable, And Off-Grid—This Sustainable Investment Comes With A Three-Year Guarantee Friend and developer Phil Hahn updated attendees at last ...

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

Why Buy Real Estate Overseas A piece of real estate anywhere in the world is a real asset that you ...

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

Pilgrims, Pirates, And Pioneers—The World's Quirkiest Retirement Haven Belize is the quirkiest country I know. Belize City's roadways are built around ...

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 ...

Faux Pas In Panama—This Could Have Been A Game-Changer Last week, while we were all recovering from Christmas and preparing ...

10 Sunniest Places To Launch A New Life Abroad Here are the top 10 most affordable tropical destinations, the best places ...

If You Could Live Anywhere You Wanted, Where Would You Go? What if you could go anywhere, do anything, and ...

Why Retire Overseas? Lief, the kids, and I have been traveling in the States for the holiday season this year. ...

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 ...

Color, Commotion, And Tuppence--It's Like Carnival In Ireland We followed the wren three miles or more three miles or more, ...

Merry Christmas From Live And Invest Overseas 'Tis the season to remember All the faces and the places that were ...

Christmas In Ecuador--The Sacred And The Profane For tourists and foreign residents, Cuenca's Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade, or Passing ...

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 ...

Christmas In Medellin--A World-Class Festival Of Lights I've been spending Christmas abroad since 2001 and have come to love the ...

Would You Be Happier Living Overseas? There’s Only One Way To Find Out… A recent article on food-stamp recipients told ...

Retire In The Footsteps Of The Roman Legionnaires In the late 1700s France began to ship a cotton twill material ...

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

The Secret To Making Money From Beachfront In Brazil Brazil presents opportunity for both the investor and the second-home-in-the-sun buyer. ...

Having Another Home Overseas Before you're ready to retire, you're likely to notice places around the world where you'd like to ...

Three Ways To Finance The Purchase Of Real Estate Overseas It is not possible in much of the world for ...

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

Thanksgiving Adventures Abroad You couldn't buy a turkey, plucked or in any condition, really, other than roaming around a barnyard, ...

Make A Plan (But Don’t Set It In Stone) Perhaps the most important thing to understand about the offshore world, ...

The World’s Best And Easiest Place To Become Resident? Foreign investment in Colombia has increased six-fold in the past three ...

“Knock Three Times And Ask For Roscoe” “That’s what offshore banking used to be,” Peter Zipper, an offshore banker with ...

8 Secrets To Choosing A Rental Manager In A Foreign Country Our apartment in Paris is rented right now to ...

Clearly a tourism-based establishment, running a hostel can be a lucrative endeavor if you do it right. The market for ...

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