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“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The best investment during the 20-year period from 1994 to 2013 was U.S. farmland. That’s the conclusion of a recent report in The Economist, which also considered farmland in Britain, U.S. stocks, international stocks, gold, U.S. T-Bills, U.S. forestry, and commodities. Based on the annualized returns and including appreciation of the land, U.S. farmland outperformed […]
When I was in Athens in July 2013, effects of the austerity measures that had been in place for more than two years by that time, intended to help save the ailing country and its bankrupt economy, were visible everywhere. Traffic was light, restaurants along the shore were mostly empty even though it was the […]
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