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.
There is one clear way to do well in the Dominican Republic’s beach town of Las Terrenas—buy an unloved or unused property in the center of the town and add value by sprucing it up, then rent it out.
The year was 2011 and Europe was in serious crisis. All around me, whole countries’ economies were crashing…and real estate prices were plummeting. Many investors were petrified. But not me. I knew opportunity was coming—opportunity to buy low and profit as Europe’s best real estate markets recovered to where they should be.
The deals in this month’s Issue can’t be found in any broker’s window. Or if they are, the sticker price could be 34% higher…or more. These are the “secret deals.” I tell you where you can find them in the July Issue of RETA.
You should know by now that Playa del Carmen is a tourism machine. It's one of the best short-term rental locales on my beat. The place TripAdvisor just voted as Mexico's number one destination. And it's where more and more mobile people are choosing to base themselves.
The resort of Sotogrande, on Spain's Costa del Sol, has long been home to many of the country's most well-heeled vacationers. And right now, we have the chance to own luxury, sea-view homes priced from €179,000 ($200,270).
For too long, Northern Nicaragua has been misunderstood. It has often been depicted as a poor, war-torn region. But that's not the case anymore. Today, Northern Nicaragua is a welcoming, vibrant region that's on the up.
In Costa Rica's Southern Zone, you'll find waterfalls, wildlife, and amazing landscapes. It's a beautiful location. Thick, green forest covers jagged mountain peaks that roll down to a coastline of tan-sand beaches.
The rental market for condos on the Riviera Maya is strong. And the rental market for a bigger home might just be even stronger as new supply fails to keep up with fast-growing demand in this area.
If Mexico's stunning Riviera Maya has been on your radar, you need to pay attention.
The best play right now in Arenal—Costa Rica's lake district—is to lock down a property where the seller is motivated, thanks to a phenomenon known as the seven-year itch.