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In Panama, Trouble Finding Homes for Sale

In Panama, Trouble Finding Homes for Sale

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 difficult for foreigners," Read More »

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Latin America Residential News Headlines

Part Two: Moving from Florida to Panama

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 »

Fund Targets Latin American Housing

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 »

What is the Trump Name Worth?

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 »

Searching for Bargains in Buenos Aires

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 »

How Not To Buy Property in Central America

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 »

Trump Developer Files for Bankruptcy Protection

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 »

Mexico Moves to Change Foreign Property Rules

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 »

One Couple's Story: Buying a Home in Panama

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 »

The New Central America Second Home Buyers

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 »

Trump Project Launches in Uruguay

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 »

American Real Estate Investors Target South America

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 »

Engel & Völkers Opens First Office in Mexico

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 »

Hong Kong Still World's Hottest Market

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 »

For Sale: Panama Coastal Land

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 »

Jakarta, Dubai, Miami Post Big Price Increases

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 »

Argentine Real Estate Activity Sharply Falls

One thing Argentines will be looking to put far behind them as the New Year begins is last year's real estate sector performance. According to a recent report, real estate activity in 2012 fell app... Read More »

Chile Breaks Residential Sales Record in 2012

The Chilean residential real estate sector looks set to ring in the new year on a festive note. According to the Chilean Chamber of Construction, it is projected that a record or more than 69,000 resi... Read More »

Chile Central Bank Gives 'Yellow Card' to Real Estate Sector

Apart from the famous asado, one of the great Chilean national pastimes is soccer. Rather than one of the players on the famous Universidad de Chile or Colo-Colo teams, however, the most recent recip... Read More »

Miami, Moscow and Dubai to be Strongest Performing Global Markets in 2013

According to London-based Knight Frank, 2013 will be a year of continued growth in many prime cities around the globe despite continued economic uncertainty. Since the Lehman Brother's collapse the wo... Read More »

Peru's Residential Real Estate Market Breaks 17 Year Sales Record

Beating a banner year in 2011, the Peruvian residential real estate sector in 2012 has broken a 17-year record. According to a study by the Camara Peruana de la Construcción (Peruvian Construction C... Read More »

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