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01 May
Self-Sufficiency In Uruguay, Chile, And Belize

Going Offshore And Investing In Land In Paraguay And Uruguay

Paraguay is one of the easiest places in the world to establish residency and maybe the easiest and most affordable place in the world to obtain citizenship and a second passport. You can accomplish all those things without meeting any income requirement and without making any big investment in the country. Furthermore, you don’t need […]

16 Apr
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Taking The Pulse Of Panama City’s Property Market

Panama City must be hiding some real estate bargains, a colleague in town for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference suggested over lunch yesterday. When I asked how he came to that conclusion, his response was one I’ve heard many times, not only for Panama City but for other cities with lots of […]

13 Apr
Panama’s new “Specific Countries” residency program is the easiest and quickest way to establish permanent residency in this country, even to obtain a work permit.

Panama Is One Of The World’s Top Offshore Havens, Tax Havens, And Property Investment Markets

“Panama City today is unrecognizable from the Panama City I discovered for the first time 16 years ago,” I explained this morning to the crowd convened for this week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference. “This city has reinvented itself over the past decade-and-a-half. When I arrived on the scene 16 years ago, this was […]

06 Apr
Retirement And Real Estate Investment In Algarve, Portugal

Retirement And Real Estate Investment In Algarve, Portugal

The euro could continue to fall and is generally expected to reach parity with the U.S. dollar. That could amount to another 10% boost in buying power for dollar holders. Should you sit back and wait for your dollars to grow even stronger? I don’t think so, for two reasons. First, I think we’re at […]

23 Mar
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Agriculture And Productive Land Are The Biggest Current Property Investment Opportunity

An important focus at last week’s Global Property Summit in Panama was agriculture. As we discussed with the help of agricultural and other relevant industry experts, an investment in productive land is the biggest opportunity of our age. The global population will surpass 9 billion by 2050. The percentage of undernourished people around the world […]

19 Mar
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How And Where To Invest In Property Overseas

“Any overseas property investment you make should be safe, simple, enjoyable, and profitable…” –Jeff Matthews at this week’s Global Property Summit Why would you want to buy a piece of real estate overseas? That’s where we began the discussions during the opening presentations for Lief Simon’s Global Property Summit, taking place this week in the […]

09 Mar
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Current Property Investment Opportunity In Ireland

When we arrived on the scene in Ireland in 1997, the real estate boom in that country was already in full swing. Appreciation had been running at 20% and more per year, year on year, for the previous five. We figured we were looking at the top of the market, a bubble nearing its pin. […]

26 Feb
View from Q1 looking north

Lief Simon Hosts Annual Global Property Summit In Panama

Investing pre-construction, which gained a bad rap post-2008, is again a viable option. If you were a pre-construction investor stung by losses in pre-2008 bubble markets from Florida to Spain, you may be understandably wary. However, in certain markets, pre-construction is again interesting. I recommend you take a look at Istanbul, for example, where the […]

19 Feb
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Property Investing In The Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is back on my radar. Actually, it’s been on my radar since I first visited in 2005, but one has only so much time and the world is full of opportunity. Over the last decade, this country has grown up a bit… especially the Samana Peninsula and Las Terrenas, my focus this […]

16 Feb
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Last Chance To Invest In Mango Plantation In Panama

Last year about this time, I announced the launch of a new agricultural investment opportunity in Panama—a mango plantation where you could participate as a small investor, taking title to your piece of the farm and earning yields along with the developer. Today, that mango plantation is nearly sold out. In less than one year, […]