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30 Days to the World’s Best Beach Buy
Date: 03/30/2008Monday, March 31, 2008
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
If you’ve read the reports…and seen the photos…coming out of the northeast coast of Brazil courtesy of these Postcards, you understand the real estate potential hidden along the hundreds of miles of white-sand beaches on this coast.
Until I discovered this region, I had become resigned to the thought that cheap and relatively accessible beachfront was a thing of the past.
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Beachfront Condos for $88,000 in This Peaceful Brazilian Town
Date: 03/17/2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Taiba, Brazil
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
My last report to you on Brazil’s northeastern coast was about property in the town of Cumbuco.
From Cumbuco, we traveled 30 miles up the coast to the next up-and-coming hotspot, the town of Taiba. This is where the European expats are starting to look—finding beach lots cheaper than in Cumbuco.
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A Cliff-top Condo With Spectacular Ocean Views...for $70,000
Date: 03/16/2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Fortaleza, Brazil
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
Unspoiled beaches, quaint cobblestone streets, and a charming village center...Uruau, 50 miles east of Fortaleza on Brazil’s northeast coast, is quite a find.
Read OnRecon Mission to Fortaleza
Date: 03/15/2008Sunday, March 16, 2008
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I hope you’ve been paying as much attention as I have to the beach reports coming out of northeastern Brazil, courtesy of the scouting mission we sent there.
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Spotlight on...Fortaleza, Brazil
Date: 02/29/2008
by Lee Harrison
Hundreds of miles of dazzling, white-sand beaches surround the city of Fortaleza in the northeast of Brazil. Its clear, tropical ocean waters maintain a year-round temperature of 80˚ Fahrenheit. Serving as the glimmering centerpiece for the state of Ceará, this capital city of almost 3 million people is now the No. 1 tourist destination in Brazil. Fortaleza boasts its own beautiful in-city beaches, sizzling nightlife, and great restaurants.
Yet you can still buy a downtown apartment with a sea view for $150,000 and lots (just off the beach) outside the city are for sale for as little as $15,000.
Fortaleza is popular with European travelers, expats, and investors, but completely off the radar screen of North Americans…for now.
Read OnAmid Global Credit Crunch, It’s Business as Usual in Brazil
Date: 02/25/2008Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
The U.S. credit crunch is far from over, as vulture-investors and Warren Buffett now circle the troubled monoline insurers. These distressed insurers, including Ambac and MBIA, are the latest victims of the “repricing of risk,” as the Oracle of Omaha calls it.
However, several thousand miles and worlds away from Wall Street, the credit crunch appears to be having little spillover impact on South America’s biggest economy.
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Beachfront Apartments for $77,000
Date: 02/20/2008
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
Fortaleza, Brazil
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
Yesterday, Eimear told you a little about what we found east of Fortaleza, but I prefer the west.
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Brazil: Beachfront Lots for Less Than $18,000
Date: 02/19/2008
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
Fortaleza, Brazil
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
Right now I’m on the road, exploring Brazil’s north coast, using Fortaleza as a base, and scouting out west and east from that city...to the towns of Cumbuco, Taiba, Barra Nova, and Uruau. The white-sand beaches stretch for hundreds of miles along this coast, and these beaches are still, for now, off the radar of North Americans.
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