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A Community Of Friends Can Make Anywhere Feel Like Home

July 16, 2018

Your Chances Of Survival Overseas Hinge On This “Why don’t I own a four-bed, two-story country home in my native Normandy? What’s wrong with me?” These were the thoughts that haunted me as I flew back to Panama after my last trip to France. You see, in Paris for a whole month, I’d spent a…

Global Property Summit: Real Estate Overseas Made Easy

November 6, 2017

How To Buy Your Dream Home Overseas Why would you want to buy a piece of real estate overseas? This is the first question we tackle every year at Lief Simon’s Global Property Summit. And, it’s an important one whether you’re looking for a full- or part-time home in another country… or shopping purely for…

Panama: From Developing Country To Dream Destination

October 16, 2017

The American Dream And Where To Find It “The American dream is still very much alive. You just have to look outside America to find it.” So said a store-owner in Coronado, Panama, to our in-house Managing Editor, Charles Conn. And nobody could agree with her more than Charles… Charles grew up in Panama with…

The Best Time To Visit Panama: Just Before Carnaval

February 20, 2017

Dodging Carnaval In Panama In Brazil, carnaval features bare-breasted women on floats… In Ecuador, this pre-Lenten celebration is all about water. You can’t walk down the street without being squirted or sprayed… Here in Panama, carnaval is about the party. The entire country shuts down for a week of nonstop revelry. No business is done,…

The Stark Contrast In Panama: City Life Vs. Easygoing Interior

February 6, 2017

Panama—Inside And Out The countdown is on to our annual Live and Invest in Panama Conference—kicking off next Wednesday, Feb. 15, from the Panama Marriott Hotel. And my team (and rest of the office who have no choice but to pitch in on a conference on their own turf) is working hard to make sure…

Panama Has Investment Opportunities In Spades For Expats

October 17, 2016

Get In With The Right Crowd Last week, I sent you early notice of our ninth Live and Invest in Panama Conference. Now, I know what you may be thinking… Ninth conference? Haven’t all the good opportunities in Panama been snapped up already? The answer is a resounding no. While many of my colleagues have…

How Peg Fairbairn And April Hess Retired To Veraguas, Panama

August 29, 2016

You Just Have To Figure It Out Three-and-a-half years ago, Peg Fairbairn and April Hess moved, together, from Texas to Panama. Here’s their story, as they told it to attendees in Orlando last year… “I was a schoolteacher for 30 years,” Peg begins. “For 20 of those years, I taught hormonally stressed adolescents. When I…

Morillo Beach On Panama’s Azuero Sunset Coast

March 7, 2016

Why You Need To Follow The Surfers If you want to find the best beaches in Central America, my advice is to follow the surfers. Not the tourist surfers… but the local guys. You don’t need to be a surfer… or care about ever stepping foot on a board. But, if you’re a lover of…