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.
Mexico is set to become a developed country. Right now, this “investors’ darling” is entering the end game of decades of change, which will culminate in a fast-paced “convergence” with its powerhouse neighbor to the north. The idea of convergence is a simple one. Over time, forces will reduce great disparities.
Five months ago I spent two weeks scouting through Thailand—most of that was spent in Chiang Mai, for that is where the opportunity lies. This is a complicated market, as I explain in a special edition of Real Estate Trend Alert—ready to download here. In this special edition, you'll also discover... How to profit from inefficient markets... The condos in Medellin, Colombia that you should avoid... And lots more...
You well know the opportunity we have in the Tulum region at the southern end of Mexico's Riviera Maya. In particular, the Tao community. This is where members of our little group bought "loft condos" in February, from $141,500. These units went retail at $181,500 a month later before selling out.
I'm in Portugal's western Algarve, in the beach town of Carvoeiro. I extended my scouting trip to investigate an opportunity here. A great plus about traveling around Europe is the travel infrastructure—trains and airlines are easy to use and affordable.
I'm in stunning Jericoacoara, 185 miles along the coast from Fortaleza in Northeast Brazil. Wide empty beach is backed by giant mountainous sand dunes. Back from the beach and in the dunes you have white-bottomed lakes where adventure travelers come to kite surf (although not at this time of year), dive or just kick back and relax.
Today I'll share with you an opportunity to buy into an overlooked and undervalued community that offers some of the best of Costa Rica...with big RETA discounts...and no build requirements.
As a member of our little group, you will know that I'm bullish on the opportunity we have in the Tulum area on the southern edge of Mexico's Riviera Maya. I've told you about the preferential terms we have to buy a home at member-only pricing in the A-nah Tulum and Tao communities.
The opportunity we have in Costa Rica's Southern Zone is strong. This part of the country was previously difficult to get to, but a new road has fixed that. RETA members can buy in the Pacific Lots community with member-only pricing from $37,000.
Malta is a safe place to put your real estate dollars. During the last six years of economic crisis this stable and peaceful haven was left untouched. That comes as no surprise to the international business community that knows this Mediterranean island nation well. For the past five centuries, Malta has managed to negotiate its way out of troubles that have crushed empires.
Uruguay's "beach province" of Rocha has the country's best beaches and most charming beach towns with white sands, backed by dunes, stretching for miles. Beyond the breaking waves, the Atlantic is blue and flat to the horizon. The beach towns in Rocha have a quiet charm. La Paloma is the biggest and most vibrant...La Pedrera has a more upscale ambiance...and tiny Cabo Polonio is famous for its arty residents.