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: 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: Beachfront Under US$100k… And Stashing Money In Chile In Medellín, Colombia, Manila has long been the undiscovered treasure of the city’s upscale El Poblado sector. On its shady, tree lined streets, you’ll find a mixture of houses, mom-and-pop businesses, and more than its share of nice restaurants and cafés. One of El Poblado’s smallest
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Plus: Options For Financing Abroad I missed out on the Great Recession. In fact, since I moved abroad in 2001, those recession years actually produced my highest income. My home in Punta del Este, Uruguay, jumped in value during the U.S. housing crash, as did our beach house in Brazil. My Brazilian reais jumped almost
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During the past eight years, I’ve spent hundreds of days and thousands of car miles traveling in Northeast Brazil—the region extending from the state of Bahia in the south, to the city of São Luís in the north. Everyone has their favorite city in the Northeast, the most popular of which include Salvador, João Pessoa,
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Two countries that rise to the top in any conversation about Latin America are Colombia and Chile. They both get high marks for their property markets, economic performance, lifestyles, and geographic diversity. Colombia and Chile share some common ground, but they’re different in many ways. Let’s compare these top two destinations head-to-head. The Property Markets
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The real estate market in Cali, Colombia, is the most exciting scene I’ve witnessed in a long time. This is an attractive city, with low property prices, a low cost of living, low cost of ownership, and high rental returns. Best of all, prices start at less than US$66,000 for a nice apartment in one
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