I first met Phil Hahn in 2010. He had already founded one successful oceanfront development in Belize and was moving on to his next project… a 98-acre inland residential community in the Cayo District that he called Carmelita Gardens. At the time, the project consisted of nothing more than a couple of roads plus a […]
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“Wow. This is really something.” It was the late 90s, and I was sitting at a palapa in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The unspoiled beauty of everything that surrounded me had me completely stunned. Back then, Playa del Carmen had a population of about 50,000 people. By the early 2000s, it had become one of
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You heard it here first: 2024 is going to be big for global property investors. Key to having a profitable year is identifying emerging markets and staking claims as early as possible. To that end, Lief Simon and his team of international property scouts (including me) are currently planning scouting trips in the markets that
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Dear Overseas Property Alert Reader, Increasing numbers of retirees are leaving their home states in search of more affordable housing. Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan are the top places they’re moving to. But how affordable is property in these states? And what about their costs of living in general? Once housing is covered, how much
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In the summers of 1995 and 1996, I had a desk in the legal department of Waterford Crystal. Teenage me had zero legal background. But my dad worked for the company, and it had a scheme to employ workers’ kids over the summer. For me, it was a sweet deal. The pay scale was better
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