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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
“I just sent my first WhatsApp voice note…and I think I broke it.” This was the message I posted into one of our group Slack channels on Monday afternoon. Turns out, WhatsApp was broken…and Facebook and Instagram too. Unless you live under a rock, you’ll have heard that all these Facebook-owned platforms went offline for Read more...: I Think I Broke WhatsApp
As I write, I’m in Lisbon, just an hour from my home, and the site of an impending crash. Getting here from my base on Portugal’s Silver Coast is a breeze. I hit the highway, straight south, and then GPS takes me all the way to my hotel in the heart of old town. It’s Read more...: Good News…The House of Cards is Crumbling
The South of France is synonymous with glitz, glamour, and out-of-this world real estate prices. But look beyond the beaches of Cannes and the high-end celeb hangout of Antibes and it is possible to find bargain homes in the South of France. And one region in particular is worth paying attention to… Languedoc-Roussillon essentially covers Read more...: South of France Homes for Less Than €100k
Have you heard the story about Mr. Goxx, the crypto-trading hamster? This isn’t the opening line of a joke. And the kicker is…he’s doing better than most human investors! Putting Mr. Goxx’s hamster skills to use as a crypto trader was the brainchild of two Germans in their 30s. Mr. Goxx’s owner told the BBC: Read more...: A German Hamster and the Italian Invasion
“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” – General Patton In summer 2014, I joined my sister on a trip to Italy. I booked rooms in what I had thought was a boutique hotel. However, upon arrival there was no one to Read more...: The Bums of Rome
On my second to last visit to Florence I took a number of tours… A foodie tour, a photography class/tour and my usual every free walking tour available. As we battled the crowds I asked our guide when high season runs until…he paused… “Christmas…well Christmas is still busy…the second and third weeks of January, and Read more...: Gangster Bakers and Gelato
Mission Italy is underway… As General Patton said when he was advancing up the Italian peninsula in 1944, “We are going to move and move fast.” My team are boots on the ground as I write…in Rome…in Florence…in Tuscany and god knows where…because they are moving fast. Ruthlessly hunting down opportunities…bargains…villas…homes with income potential… Over Read more...: Wolf’s Milk and Real Estate
Winter is coming. There’s a slight chill creeping into the evenings and early mornings…that means it’s almost time for me to pack up my base here on Portugal’s Silver Coast and head back across the Atlantic to my base on Mexico’s warm and sunny Pacific Coast. But I’m not quite done with Portugal. Earlier this Read more...: A Wrecking Ball of a Real Estate Deal