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 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: Buying In Lagos, Portugal San Pedro Town, Belize The properties in this report are priced in U.S. dollars Belize is at the top of the list for anyone who dreams of clear, warm waters, swaying palms, sport-fishing, and white sandy beaches. It’s a well-recognized destination among North American mainstream travelers. Belize is a also
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Plus: “Why Should I Get A Visa In Colombia?” Beautiful, unspoiled beaches, warm weather, and friendly, English-speaking people. New Zealand fits the bill just about perfectly for anyone wanting to escape the harsh North American winter. And thanks to a dramatic shift in currency exchange rates, U.S. dollar-holders now have 38% more buying power in
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After 14 years of traveling and scouting properties in 17 different countries, there are not many countries left where I try to combine a real estate scouting trip with a vacation… at least not on the second or third trip. But I just realized this morning that we’ve vacationed in Nicaragua four times now. Almost
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“I’ll Assume You Have No Clue…” Readers Speak Out Aug. 25, 2015 Medellín, Colombia Dear Overseas Property Alert Reader, As of today, I have 99 pages of reader questions—of which, some 40 are unanswered. So I’m going to hand this issue over to the readers of Overseas Property Alert. This is a good way to
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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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Plus: Expat Health Insurance Just yesterday a guy wrote to me, asking for advice on where to buy a property. He’s traveling this year to Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama, and Colombia, and wanted to know which one I favored for his list of requirements. I started to look at his criteria, when something dawned on me:
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Plus: Ecuador’s Strict Residency Requirements For Foreigners July 14, 2015 Panama City, Panama Dear Overseas Property Alert Reader, Agricultural investments have been a focus for me for the past half-dozen years. Unfortunately, as I’ve been reporting, it’s not easy to find agricultural projects geared toward the small investor. However, early 2014, I began working with
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