Plus: Getting The “Real” Story On Belize “I can’t believe this place has stayed off the radar,” said my friend Lou… for the third time in as many days. We were having dinner in an open-air French restaurant in Medellín’s Zona Rosa, the city’s upscale dining and shopping area. Lou lives on Manhattan’s Upper West […]
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Plus: A Beach Property For US$75K? If you’d like to see a quick, efficient snapshot of what’s happening with Latin American property prices, then you’ve come to the right place. Each year, I take a snapshot of property costs from 19 key markets around the region. I use this data as a means of comparing
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Plus: “How Can You Recommend This Guy?” This week I’m going to focus in on the most popular of all overseas properties: beaches. Mountain lifestyles and city living are popular, to be sure… but beaches draw people to a full-time or part-time life abroad more reliably than anything else. Thanks to today’s volatile (and favorable)
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Plus: Where To Invest US$100k… And Prejudice Against Latinos In Ecuador The beachfront real estate market in Mazatlán has an impressive diversity that will satisfy the taste of most anyone who is shopping for beachfront real estate. I’ve been here in Mazatlán for a month now and I’m still sorting out the different lifestyle options
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Plus: Crime In Mazatlán… And Where To Settle In Brazil I’ve been here in Mazatlán looking at houses and condos since mid-December. And as usual, I’m struggling to find the perfect property. I have two problems that continue to slow me down when looking at real estate abroad. Counterintuitively, it’s actually harder to pick a
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Plus: Property Spreadsheet, Return Calculator, And Gringo Pricing This time of year is a good time to pause and take stock of the bright spots of the year gone by. And this year, the year-end assessment has been a particularly rewarding experience… including some discoveries that top anything I’ve seen over the past 15 years.
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Plus: A Reader’s Low-Cost Country That Offers Everything Ever since I boldly predicted that The Beatles would fade away by the end of 1965—overshadowed by The Dave Clark Five—I’ve learned to be wary of making predictions. But predictions are part of the business when it comes to buying property abroad (or writing about buying property
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Plus: Is It Worth The Hassle To Buy Abroad With An IRA? Nov. 24, 2015 Medellin, Colombia 1 U.S. dollar equals: 3.77 Brazilian reals 3,040 Colombian pesos 16.73 Mexican pesos 701 Chilean pesos Dear Overseas Property Alert Reader, Over the past few months, you’ve heard a lot about the amazing bargains that the strong dollar
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Plus: A sample portfolio for buying abroad with your IRA I retired when I was 49. I did it by seizing a “second-chance opportunity” much like one that I see playing out today. In 1991, my employer offered an amazingly generous early retirement plan. In order to incentivize people to retire, they added five years
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Plus: Medellín Versus Puerto Vallarta… And What To Do In Brazil? Costa del Sol, Spain 1 euro equals US$1.11 Spain is currently the third most-visited country in the world, behind only France and the United States, and is expected to break through the 66 million visitor barrier by the end of this year. It’s this
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