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Ronan McMahon is the editor of Real Estate Trend Alert, Your Overseas Dream Home, and a contributing editor to IL. Ronan’s Your Overseas Dream Home e-letter is delivered to readers’ inboxes daily. No matter what level of real estate investor you are, there’s plenty of great info for you. In it, you’ll read about every promising international real estate investing idea Ronan and his team comes across.
He also brings you up to speed on his favorite markets for making “double your money” gains through either capital gains, rental income, or both. Ronan also shares his key strategies for identifying profit opportunities in some of the most beautiful locations worldwide—by Caribbean, Pacific, and Atlantic beaches, in glamorous European cities, in quaint little mountain towns, or anywhere else that might take your fancy.
Bill Bonner is a man after my own heart. He’s a friend and the founding publisher of International Living (most of you will be familiar with IL, they have been the premier resource for living and retiring overseas for over 40 years). He travels the world nearly as much as I do, he bought a Read more...: Podcast: The Biggest Trends in Real Estate
It was the perfect bolthole. A penthouse condo on the edge of Cotacachi, Ecuador. It had stunning views of the volcano. The sun was always warm and the air fresh. There was space for a big open fire if the nights ever turned chilly. The best part was it came with a price tag of Read more...: Bargain Homes in Peaceful Small-Town Ecuador
My time in Europe is almost at an end. Latin America beckons. In less than two weeks I’ll board a plane in Lisbon and cross the Atlantic to Cancun. And from there I’ll be spending some time in Costa Rica, Panama, and of course at my base in Cabo. But it’s been an eventful summer Read more...: Buying Overseas For Pleasure
According to a survey by the University of Michigan, only 29% of Americans think now is a good time to buy a home. The number hasn’t been this low since 1982. There’s more… In 1982 the rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 15.13% compared with just 2.86% today. If it’s so much cheaper to Read more...: Why Now is a Good Time to Buy Overseas
As I write this, I’m cruising up the Douro River in northern Portugal. It’s absolutely beautiful. A picturesque river valley covered in terraces of olives trees and grape vines, with dramatic cliffs, lush hillsides, medieval walled villages along the way. We are stopping off at villages where you can buy small homes to renovate for Read more...: 3 Reasons to Live an International Lifestyle
Last week I spent three days in Portugal’s second city, Porto. It’s a place I love to visit, and I return often. It’s walkable, laidback, and the food is great. The famed historic neighborhood of Ribeira lies right alongside the River Douro where, along with barrels of fortified wine, the barges now carry tourists on Read more...: Porto’s Best Kept Secret
As an Irish man, my home country will always have my heart. I spend my summers (when the weather here is at its best) in my home county of Cork and use that time to also explore the rest of the country. Ireland is a small country, it’s just 302 miles long and 171 miles Read more...: Irish Cottages for Less Than $110k
The temperature in Europe are starting to drop. It’s almost time for me to hit the road yet again…in search of opportunity and profit. And it doesn’t hurt that my next destination, when I leave Portugal later this month, is one of my favorite places in the world… On the 22nd of October I’ll take Read more...: Possible Opportunity, a Probable Crash, and Beautiful Women
Cruising into hair-pin bends, cursing tailgating Italian drivers, and with the eighties music cranked up loud on his little Lancia’s radio, my scout Paul O’Sullivan is still on the road in Italy… Today we find him somewhere in Abruzzo feasting on pasta, pastries and historic home bargains… He is giving me serious Italy FOMO…I can’t Read more...: Witch Lakes and Medieval Homes
“Mission Italy” continues… As you know by now, Italy is jam-packed with some of the best bargain real estate in the world, and post-pandemic, the deals are better than ever. That’s why my team are there right now with boots on the ground. Along with overlooked city apartments, country villas, and pocket-money escapes in Italy’s Read more...: VIDEO: Get Paid to Live in This Italian Village