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As a reader of this e-letter you’ll know that when you invest in real estate overseas, you open yourself to bigger opportunities. Much bigger potential gains. It diversifies your portfolio. And gives you the ability to travel and stay in a place you love… It can also be your path to a second passport, and Read more...: How to Get Residency Through Buying Real Estate
As I’ve been telling you over the past few days, this month is “Mission Italy” for my team. On Friday, two of my scouts are catching a flight to Rome, before spreading out into the central Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Tuscany, and Emilia-Romagna, and then finishing in the Renaissance cities of Florence and Venice. Read more...: Own an Italian Village Home for $85,056
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy,” so said the great 19th-century composer Giuseppe Verdi. It’s a deal I’d happily take myself… Italy is the cradle of the Renaissance, the birthplace of opera, the country that gave the world Italian food… Italy is jammed with natural and cultural treasures, many of its Read more...: An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse
I declare “Mission Italy” a go! Italy is jam-packed with incredible bargains and now, post-pandemic, there are more of them than ever. That’s why, this month, me and my team are making it our mission to bring you as many of them as we can… Entire towns in Italy are for sale in the countryside. Read more...: I Declare Mission Italy!
I’ve dipped my toes in the warm Caribbean Sea more times than I can count. There are numerous locations on my international real estate beat that touch this vast sea…Mexico…Belize…Nicaragua. And I’ve found some incredible real estate deals in these places. But for lots of people, the idea of living on a Caribbean Island is Read more...: Bargain Caribbean Island Homes From $90k
“Some of the best things are found at the end of dirt roads.” So says a sign just outside the Mexican town of Todos Santos, a place I often visit when I’m at my Cabo base. Sure, it might be the billboard for one of Mexico’s trendiest hotels, but it’s also a motto I can Read more...: Dirt Road Gold
For 14 years, my senior researcher Margaret Summerfield called the Latin American country of Panama her home. For someone who has scouted more of the world that anyone I know, that’s about as high an endorsement as you’ll find… International and cosmopolitan…safe and stable…friendly and welcoming…Panama ticks all of Margaret’s boxes. Indeed, it ticks all Read more...: Video: Latin America’s Dark Horse
My parents looked at me like I was nuts. I’m not, I promised. They didn’t look convinced. “You’re really going to Panama?” they asked skeptically. I am, I affirmed. “But why?” The year was 2004, early in the days of my international global real estate scouting career. I had plenty of good reasons to head Read more...: “But Why Are You Going to Panama?”
For 17 years I’ve been traveling the world, driving down bumpy, potholed roads in far flung destinations…all because some of the best opportunities I’ve ever found were at the end of dirt roads. I generally spend six months or so of each year traveling. My scouting has taken to me to strange places and put Read more...: The Adventuresome World of Overseas Real Estate
I’ve accidentally made $10,399. Ok, it wasn’t entirely accidental… The money dropping into my account over the past 10 weeks has come from my rental manager on Portugal’s Silver Coast. I bought my condo there last year for €300,000 ($366,262). I moved in last April, and then handed my keys over to a rental manger Read more...: How to Turn Real Estate Into a Money Machine