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.
I told you late last year about an opportunity on a pristine stretch of Brazilian white sand—the type of opportunity we only get once in a decade. Members of our little group could reserve a lot before the final permits were in place. Now the final permits are in place
Greetings from the road. I’m writing to you from what might be the last great opportunity in the San Pedro to La Duquesa corridor on Spain’s Costa del Sol. This market is fast bouncing back.
In the early and mid-2000s, Europe’s real estate markets embarked on a massive tear. People re-financed, often to buy a vacation home or make a speculative investment in Europe’s sunnier locales. Values rose and rose…until everything stopped. The market imploded and real estate owners found themselves deeply under water. By 2009, with a few exceptions, Europe’s real estate markets had halted. Transactions simply stopped. The gulf between sellers’ expectations and what buyers were willing to pay was so great that there was nowhere for them to meet. Now markets are moving again. And in four countries in particular—Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Spain—I see opportunity today. An added plus is the current strength of the U.S. dollar. At time of writing, your U.S. dollar buys you 24% more euros than it did in March 2014. Now, I’m not a currency guy, and I’m certainly not making a call on future euro-dollar exchange rates, but it makes European opportunities all the more attractive right now.
Last December I told you about our members-only pre-release opportunity in the luxurious Copala community in jet-set Cabo at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Our window of opportunity here has been kept open—but only for a brief time period.
In my decade scouting opportunity in Nicaragua, I hadn’t been north to the end of the road along Nicaragua’s Pacific frontier. There never was a reason for me to visit…until now.
The Encanto master-planned community within Tulum’s Aldea Zama is a strong and exciting opportunity. I’ve told you about this community before—it’s a killer deal—but now the window of opportunity is set to close.
A buyer off the street can’t get the pre-release deals that I bring to you. This is one of the advantages we get from being part of our RETA group—members-only deals. RETA members have bought in the Riviera Maya with members-only pricing and have done well in the past. This is set to happen again with our latest pre-release opportunity.
The short-term rental market in Mexico’s Riviera Maya is the strongest I know. More vacationers and snowbirds are coming and more folks are moving here to work or set up a business. I expect strong rental demand for suites here at a weekly rate of up to $750…each. And strong occupancy thanks to overflow requirement from the new hotel that will come on top of an already strong rental market.
If Mexico's stunning Riviera Maya has been on your radar then listen... We have a new deal at the special Tao community and it's our last chance to get in on the ground floor there.
For more than 11 years I’ve traveled all over Latin America. From the U.S.-Mexican border all the way to Argentina, I see firsthand the opportunities this vast land has to offer. I’ve never seen a better time to invest in development land in Latin America than right now. The biggest returns in development come to the earliest speculators who take positions. You don’t need deep pockets to invest in development land—if you know how to do it. Nicaragua, for example, is a country of stunning natural beauty and abundant resources. It has a young population and its economy is catching up from a very low base. It has great potential as a retirement and vacation locale for North Americans. In the early 2000s, money and people raced in. Many didn’t have the skills or the experience to develop real estate.