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A recently announced ruling by the Internal Revenue Service could save U.S. citizens buying homes in Mexico thousands of dollars and endless headaches. The IRS formally acknowledged this month that fideicomiso are not "trusts" under the definition of U.S. tax code. Read More »
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A case is often made that investing in real estate for profit in the form of capital growth and investing to enjoy a lifestyle are extremes that don't overlap. But Claudia Gonella argues the two are n... Read More »
Blackstone Group has reached a $1 billion deal to take a controlling stake in Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa's high-end residential subsidiary. The New York-based investment firm will be a majority part... Read More »
This is the third installment of Rachelle Smith's series detailing her experience buying a home in Panama with her husband, Ben. They moved their pets and all their possessions to Panama to start a ne... Read More »
Paladin Realty Latin America Investors IV has invested $60 million in a partnership to build 2,400 affordable homes in Brazil. The joint venture with Constructora Altana, a residential real estate dev... Read More »
There has been a shift in the Panama property market, reflecting a phenomenon that is happening in real estate markets around the world. Finding high-end homes for sale is "growing increasingly diffic... Read More »
This is the second installment of Rachelle and Ben Smith's series chronicling their experiences buying and selling a home in Panama. In this chapter, Rachelle describes packing up their lives in Flor... Read More »
The U.S. government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation is investing $100 million in Paladin Realty Latin America Investors IV, a fund targeting housing development in Latin America. Read More »
The developer of the Trump Ocean Club in Panama has asked a bankruptcy judge to limit public access to documents that would reveal how much Donald Trump was paid for the rights to use the Trump name. Read More »
Foreign cash buyers are finding deals in Buenos Aires, where prices for luxury apartments are down 20 percent to 25 percent from a year ago. But there is a catch. Argentina's wildly fluctuating curren... Read More »
Moving overseas to a country where your dollar goes further is perhaps the most radical way of slashing your living costs and upgrading your lifestyle. From my vantage point in San Juan del Sur, Nicar... Read More »
The developer of the Trump Ocean Club in Panama City, the tallest building in Central America, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York as it attempts to restructure $220 million in ... Read More »
In a historic move, the lower house of the Mexican Congress voted yesterday to loosen restrictions on foreigners buying property in coastal zones. The proposed change to the 1917 Constitution passed i... Read More »
In 2006, Rachelle and Ben Smith left their life in Florida behind and bought a house in Panama, on a mountain with views of both the Pacific and the Caribbean. Seven years later they have put the home... Read More »
In the Costa Rica second home market, the sweet spot has moved. Once a market dominated by Americans looking for homes priced more than $1 million, the bulk of buyers active in the market today are ta... Read More »
Sales officially started this week for apartments in the Trump Tower Punta del Este, the latest attempt to extend the Trump brand to far-flung locales. The project in Uruguay's most popular tourist de... Read More »
South American real estate markets are attracting big-name American investors, with Brazil gaining the most attention. The Related Group, Donald Trump and Sam Zell are among the real estate investors ... Read More »
German estate agency Engel & Völkers has opened the company's first office in Mexico, citing demand for high end properties. The residential brokerage opened an office in Los Cabos, serving communiti... Read More »
Government measures implemented to slow soaring home prices in Hong Kong didn't work in 2012. Home values rose 23.6 percent for the year, the largest increase in the world, according to the Knight Fra... Read More »
Panama's government is planning to sell a 54-hectare swatch of prime coastal property in the Panama province of Cocle. The land in Juan Hombrón, in central Panama. was the subject of controversy when... Read More »
Some of the luxury property markets hardest hit by the economic collapse posted the largest price increases in the world in 2012, according to Knight Frank's annual wealth report. Prices for Dubai lux... Read More »