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.
This is the perfect time of year to visit the Southern Zone. And you can visit as part of our Real Estate Trend Alert members-only scouting trip this March 23-26, where you can see firsthand the opportunities that I told you about yesterday.
The Costa del Sol, a stretch of coast that runs along Spain’s southern coast, has struggled with a mixed reputation over the years. It was long known as a place where visitors from northern Europe came for cheap beer and sunshine. And the city of Málaga, east of the better-known Marbella, had an even worse reputation. It was the place even those “cheap-beer-and-sunshine” visitors wanted to avoid—a dirty, grimy, and crime-ridden port city. Millions of passengers landed each year in Málaga airport, to head west along the coast to the beaches, golf courses, and English pubs. They didn’t even think about visiting Málaga. It seemed as though this ancient city had been lost: 2,800 years of human settlement decaying.
Costa Rica's Southern Zone was previously difficult to get to. That's meant that real estate values stayed low there, while they soared elsewhere in Costa Rica. But a new road fixed that and, thanks to a special situation, Real Estate Trend Alert members can buy in the region's gold standard Pacific Lots community with members-only pricing from $33,750.
Medellin is the only modern and sophisticated city on my beat that I know of where you can buy a high-end condo of 800 square feet—in the most desirable neighborhood—for $100,000. For less than double that price, you can get an even better deal: a three-bedroom condo of 2,300 square feet…as I explain in this Special Edition of Real Estate Trend Alert.
As a member of our little group, you will know that I'm bullish about the best opportunities along Mexico's Riviera Maya. Members have done well from our strategy of buying early-in, in the best-in-class projects—just like our opportunity at Tucan.
My Nicaragua scouting trip took me from the beaches that border with Costa Rica and right up the country's Pacific coast to the cliffs that look across to Honduras. This was my second trip in 13 months to this part of Nicaragua and the potential is higher than I first expected. The pace of development is accelerating.
As a member of our little group, you'll be familiar with the opportunity we have in Portugal thanks to economic turmoil. Crisis rolled through Portugal in 2009. We need to act fast to get the best units at the best discounts. Just like the strong opportunity I am going to tell you about now.
I told you yesterday about the Path of Progress that's steadily rolling along Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast. More people are coming here to live or for vacation, and a regional middle class is emerging. Property prices are on the up. And today I'm telling you about a great members-only deal I've found in Rancho Santana that just can't wait. It's a steal.
Sunlight bounces off the white-capped waves that crash onto the beach. The ocean is dotted with surfers, chasing the big one. Down on the beach, a group on horseback navigates the soft sand. I'm at Rancho Santana on Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast. It's a great time to visit.
Two years ago, I made my first recommendation on jet-set Cabo, at the tip of Baja California. Members of my Real Estate Trend Alert group could buy a luxury condo in a luxurious community for $336,516. Those who locked down one of these condos—including me—have done well. A comparable condo now retails at $428,301—a paper gain of $91,785.