Ronan McMahon

Ronan McMahon

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.

Uruguay’s Farmland: The Best Place to Park Your Cash

Uruguay’s Farmland: The Best Place to Park Your Cash

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Little Uruguay is a country that has advantages for producing food. It has good productive land, and a temperate climate allows the cultivation of up to three crops a year on average. Thanks to increasing wealth and food consumption in emerging markets, farmland here could generate a yield of between 3% and 9% (depending on the type of land and management option you choose), and also enjoy long-term appreciation. And Uruguay is where the small guy can directly get in on this food trend with ownership control. Uruguay has an advanced domestic farm industry. The domestic infrastructure of farm management companies, routes to market, and professional services caters for foreign investors.

November 2014: Act Now Before Spain’s Window of Opportunity Closes—Snap Up a Deal in the Costa del Sol Today

November 2014: Act Now Before Spain’s Window of Opportunity Closes—Snap Up a Deal in the Costa del Sol Today

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Right now the south of Spain is on a tear. The best distressed real estate deals are being snapped up, and the window of opportunity is fast closing. The situation in the Costa del Sol is playing out just like I forecast. Now is the time to act.

Buy Now Where Profitable Trends Converge on the Costa del Sol

Buy Now Where Profitable Trends Converge on the Costa del Sol

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We typically see Path of Progress opportunities in places that are on the up…we usually discover distressed opportunities by finding high-quality inventory somewhere that’s broadly in crisis. It’s rare that we see the convergence of both these trends—but today that’s the opportunity we have along a stretch of Spain’s Costa del Sol. San Pedro is a pleasant sleepy Spanish town of leafy squares and pedestrian streets. Marbella is 12 minutes away (by car…25 minutes by public bus).

October 2014: Why Uruguay’s Farmland is the Best Place to Park Your Cash (While You Collect a 9% Yield)

October 2014: Why Uruguay’s Farmland is the Best Place to Park Your Cash (While You Collect a 9% Yield)

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Uruguay has a long tradition of accepting investment in its land from outside of the country. Safe, solid, and reliable Uruguay, with its infrastructure of roads, ports, agri-business, and legal and tax environments, is a place we can securely and profitably invest for yields of up to 9%.