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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.
Today, we’re catching up with my other scout who has boots on the ground in Puerto Vallarta… Puerto Vallarta is a destination I’ve visited many times before, but when I was there on a scouting trip last March, it really clicked with me. I had more time to explore, acquaint myself with the city, and Read more...: Follow the Hipster Money Trail
Last October, during a mammoth scouting trip of Portugal, I found myself standing in a super high-end, master-planned resort community in the Central Algarve. Around me were homes worth anywhere from €1.8 million to €10 million. In my hand was a big bag of keys… I knew they opened the doors to at least five Read more...: Six-Figure Gains on Portugal’s Algarve
I pull back the sliding glass doors to let in the sound of the Atlantic waves. From my terrace, miles of golden-sand beach stretch out in front of me, covered in rolling dunes, and dotted along the way with cliffs and coves… It’s about as majestic as life gets… Indeed, Praia D’El Rey, where I Read more...: Why I’m Hot on Portugal
Last week I sent a scout to Portugal with two jobs: 1. Get an update on the best real estate deals on the Algarve…I haven’t had boots on the ground there myself in two months. Things are moving fast, and the opportunity is so strong that I want at least one team member there every Read more...: FOMO in the Jewish Quarter
Cancún, Mexico…Cartagena, Colombia…Jacó, Costa Rica…there are certain beach destinations that get all the attention—and a good portion of visitors to their respective countries. Tourism boards focus on these places. The travel magazines highlight them regularly. And, as a result, development follows…often pushing prices up across the board. But as with anything, when you head off Read more...: Overlooked Beach Town Bargains
Right now, my scout Jason Holland is on Mexico’s Pacific coast sending in reports by WhatsApp, Slack, and email… I sent him there to get an update on the market and hunt for opportunities in the beach towns north and south of Puerto Vallarta. It’s a destination I’ve visited many times before, but when I Read more...: Potholes and Pregnant Shrimp
Despite global lockdowns and pandemic, rentals in the historic town of Lagos on Portugal’s Algarve did pretty well in 2020… With the right kind of property and no pandemic you could expect to rent for around 40 weeks of the year. My contact on the Algarve tells me that in 2020 the average was around Read more...: An Incredible Fact…
Last week I sent one of my team to Portugal’s Algarve… He’s still not there. It’s my fault. I told him to do some exploring on the way. After disappearing into the mountains near Spain where he found a renovated home inside a castle for $90,000, and a whole lot more, he’s now driving through Read more...: The Hot Sister With a Chapel of Bones
“I just found a house for 22k!” The WhatsApp messages have been coming since Friday… Video snippets, photos…screenshots of Google Maps so I can see where exactly he is… I sent scout Eoin Bassett to Portugal to do a few things, namely get an update on our incredible Algarve opportunities. But I also told him Read more...: $90k for a House in a Portuguese Castle
It’s been years since I’ve had to suffer through a cold winter. I spend the season in my ocean-view condo in Los Cabos. I much prefer the warm sun on my face and crunch of sand underfoot as I stroll on the beach…to a bitter chill and snow-sodden boots. I’m not a snowbird, per se, Read more...: Bargain-Priced Snowbird Escapes