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This Isn't Only about Making Money
What Is Your Dream?
That's the place to start. What lifestyle are you looking for, and what other objectives are you hoping to achieve? In short, why are you thinking about buying real estate overseas?
Here are potential reasons why you are smart to be considering this idea right now:
Reason 1. Like real estate anywhere, real estate overseas is a hard asset, and, in the current investment climate, hard assets are the most sensible investment class, the best choice for storing value.
Reason 2. As with real estate anywhere, you're buying with the hope of capital appreciation, but you can also be buying for cash flow, currently an important investment agenda item.
Reason 3. Real estate overseas provides portfolio diversification—diversification of currency, diversification of market, and diversification of asset type (rental, raw land, condo-hotel, etc.).
Reason 4. Real estate overseas provides the opportunity for you to position yourself to profit from both expanding and crisis markets.
Reason 5. Real estate overseas can double as a retirement plan—today's investment can be tomorrow's retirement residence.
Reason 6. Real estate overseas can double as a holiday home, an investment that you and your family are able to use and enjoy from the day you make it.
Reason 7. Real estate overseas can be part of a legacy of wealth that you leave to your heirs.
Reason 8. Real estate overseas is safe and private, one of but two remaining asset types that ...
