In this week’s Your Overseas Dream Home Digest…
- Special Report: The New Transformation of Mexico’s Riviera Maya
- New RETA Deal Coming Soon
- Stunning European Hideaways in Verona and Bordeaux
- Your Questions Answered on Residency and Buying in Paraguay
“We knew exactly what we wanted to build—a resort that would attract a massive flow of tourists from the United States.”
So spoke the man behind the creation of Mexico’s Riviera Maya.
It was 1972. At 40 years of age, Antonio Enriquez Savignac was a graduate of Harvard. A diligent official with a belief in the power of computers.
Armed with a powerful computer, he fed in data on temperature, sunshine, hurricanes, beaches, rainfall—even shark counts. His machine pointed to a forgotten spit of land on Mexico’s Caribbean coast—Cancún.
Cancún’s Hotel Zone is now world-renowned. Some of the world’s most prestigious hotel chains are moving in here as this destination becomes increasingly upmarket.
Back then Cancún was mostly home to coconut groves. Today it services more than 30 million passengers a year and serves as the gateway to the Riviera Maya, the 80-mile stretch of Caribbean coast also encompassing Playa del Carmen and Tulum.
I’ve been scouting the Riviera Maya for more than 20 years. Its transformation is one of the greatest real estate booms of our lifetime. And now it’s entering a new phase, one that’s creating incredible opportunities for in-the-know investors.
Earlier this week, I shared a special report on this new transformation of the Riviera Maya with RETA members: The Riviera Maya’s Path of Progress: A Real Estate Investor’s Guide to the Boom.
And I wanted to share it here with you too, so you can see the opportunity.
Reading this special report is the perfect way to prepare for a phenomenal new deal I negotiated for my Real Estate Trend Alert (RETA) group in the heart of the Riviera Maya.
With this deal, we can own stunning luxury one-bed condos in the heart of Playa del Carmen…a short stroll from the beach…in a best-in-class community with a half-acre of rooftop amenities that include a sea-view infinity pool, steam room, sauna, gym, restaurant, co-working, cabanas…
Our RETA price is mind-blowing. I’m expecting gains of $111,600. And I figure on a massive gross rental yield of over 16%…and that’s allowing lots of time for personal use.
More details in this very soon…
Stunning European Hideaways
From an upcoming RETA-grade deal with big capital appreciation and rental income potential…to real estate that might not meet the strict RETA investment criteria, but could still be worth your time…
Every now and then, a whisper reaches us—quiet, persistent. A call to slow down, to tune out the noise, to find somewhere we can breathe again.
For some, it’s a sun-dappled square in a forgotten corner of southern France, where the morning ritual begins with a short walk to the boulangerie and ends with strong coffee under a vine-draped trellis. For others, it’s a crumbling farmstead in the hills of Italy, with thick stone walls, olive trees, and enough space to dig a vegetable patch or tinker with ideas that never had room to grow back home.
These aren’t places we buy to flip or brag about. They aren’t stock market plays or grand designs. They’re deeply personal.
They’re hideaways. Retreats. Personal sanctuaries that speak to something deeper: the yearning for a different rhythm.
This hideaway destination was a chance discovery, one that offers income potential and a fairytale Italian lifestyle….
And while these homes may not meet the strict investment filters I use when running the rule over potential deals to bring to my RETA group —where uplift and upside are paramount—they can still pay their way. Buy smart, in the right place, with the right appeal, and you’ll find your sanctuary can also fund itself through occasional rentals. After all, what draws you—the quiet, the views, the cafés, the hiking trails, the slow life—will draw others too.
Everyone’s dream hideaway is different. But the call is the same.
At RETA, I lead a team that scours the globe in search of the world’s best real estate opportunities. We travel constantly, boots on the ground, seeking out the rare 1% of properties that meet the RETA criteria: the right location, the right timing, and the right price for serious profit potential. We spend over a million dollars a year on travel and research to uncover these gems.
This week in Your Overseas Dream Home, we highlighted a few such hideaways, zeroing in first on Verona…
This northern Italian city is a postcard-perfect vision of historic Italy, but without the insane crowds you’ll find in Venice, Florence or Rome.
Walkable and livable, Verona is packed with Roman ruins and Renaissance charm. You’ll find artistic treasures and spectacular museums. And it’s a center for the wine industry. Famously, it’s also where Shakespeare set his Romeo and Juliet.
Read about the Verona hideaways we found here.
The northern Italian city of Verona is gorgeous, historic and classy. It’s a center for the wine industry, packed with Roman ruins and Renaissance charm, and it’s walkable.
We also found hideaways in southwest France…
Bordeaux is one of the most attractive and appealing cities in France.
It’s a place steeped in history—with more protected buildings than any city in the country outside Paris. And of course, it’s a global center of wine production. The world-renowned vineyard regions of Saint-Émilion and Médoc lie just beyond the city.
If you look across France, you’ll find vast numbers of incredible hideaways at bargain prices.
But the problem is that many of these properties are so remote, they would present everyday lifestyle challenges.
Look to the attractive towns 40 minutes to an hour outside Bordeaux, however, and you can live the idyllic French lifestyle, with everything Bordeaux offers right on your doorstep.
That’s the sweet spot…
Discover the hideaways we found around Bordeaux here.
Just outside the city of Bordeaux lie some of the most famous wine-growing regions in the world.
Your Questions Answered
Have a comment for me or my team? A question about owning overseas? Share it here. I’d love to hear from you. Here’s a question I got from a reader recently…
Brendan V. asks: I’m currently pursuing my residency in Paraguay. As a RETA lifetime member I would be interested over the next few years in hearing more about potential real estate opportunities in the country.
Ronan says: Hi Brendan, and thanks for your email. Boy, did you ask this question at the perfect time! Yesterday, I sat down to chat with long-time RETA member Kurt Hoppe about precisely this topic.
Kurt has bought in a number of our RETA deals, including our Singular Dream opportunity in Playa del Carmen, where he’s seen a stunning 98% occupancy from his condo.
And he’s has also hit the road, scouting for opportunities.
Recently, he had boots on the ground in Paraguay, in the heart of South America, where he was digging into real estate markets.
Paraguay has favorable tax and residency options. (Kurt got temporary residency there in 13 hours.)
Paraguay is not somewhere I’ve ever been. But I’m intrigued. So I asked him to jump on a call and share what he found with my RETA group.
Kurt spilled the beans on how he got temporary residency in Paraguay (and how that unlocked access to the Mercosur countries—the South American trade bloc founded to promote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people, and currency).
I was fascinated to hear about his investments in the capital, Asunción, including a top-floor one-bed he bought for $74,000 that he plans to rent short term.
And I’m intrigued to hear how quickly things are changing…
To unlock access to the video of our conversation, sign up to RETA here. You’ll also get countless other benefits, including all our best research and scouting reports…not to mention access to incredible RETA deals in some of the world’s most desirable places.
Wishing you good real estate investing,
P.S. If you have a question about buying real estate overseas or have suggestions for destinations my team and I should put on our scouting list, drop me a line here.
