In this week’s Overseas Dream Home digest…
- A True Beachfront Home and Gains of $310,000
- 15 Things to See and Do in Panama City
- Why My Scout Just Flew to Italy
- Your Questions Answered on How RETA Deals Work
In 16-plus years of my Real Estate Trend Alert club, I’ve never found a deal for homes right on the beach…until now.
This Wednesday, October 23rd, at 1 p.m. ET, members of my RETA group will have the chance to own something truly special….
Spacious, luxury homes…literally seconds from a glorious white-sand beach…in an amenity-rich community…at incredible RETA-only pricing…
These homes are also just an hour to 90 minutes from a major world city…and there’s developer financing!
This is special. I expect gains of $310,000 five years after delivery on the stunning homes RETA members can own in Playa Caracol on Panama’s Pacific Riviera.
Yesterday, I sent you a special preview of my in-depth deal briefing for RETA members on this incredible off-market opportunity.
This is not something I normally do. But I feel anyone who is interested in owning a true beachfront home needs to know about this incredible deal.
I can’t overemphasize how rare this opportunity is…
Own a beachfront home in Playa Caracol on Panama’s Pacific Riviera and this glorious stretch of white sand will be your front yard…
Look globally and you’ll see there aren’t many beachfront homes on tropical coastlines. Not true, genuine “on the beach” homes.
Even rarer are homes on a tropical beach, yet close to a world-class city and modern well-connected airport.
Why? Frontline beach land is valuable and it usually goes to the big resort groups for development. And if a developer has it—as Playa Caracol developer Alfredo Aleman does—nine times out of 10 they’ll want to build a higher-density condo building because that’s more profitable than low-density, low-rise and spacious beach homes.
But Alfredo wanted to carve out a part of Caracol for spacious beach homes and because of his long-standing connections to my RETA club and RETA’s group-buying power, he’s giving RETA members special, off-market pricing…
I can count on one hand the number of RETA deals we’ve had on spacious homes like these…and none of those were right on a vast tropical beach.
Frankly, it’s astonishing to have this opportunity. But there is a catch… there are very few homes available, I expect only a dozen at RETA-only pricing. So if you’re interested, be sure to read the deal briefing I sent you yesterday. You’ll find it here.
Below, you can also check out the video I recorded earlier this week with my senior researcher, Margaret Summerfield, about this opportunity in Playa Caracol.
Click on the image below to start watching…
In this video, Margaret and I talk about our upcoming deal on spacious three-bed beach homes in Playa Caracol, set to become Panama’s premier beach destination. Click here to view. And you can read my briefing on this opportunity here.
The 15 Best Things to See and Do in Panama City
As I say, a home in Playa Caracol doesn’t just put from steps from a stunning tropical beach, it also puts you within easy commuting distance of a true world city.
Panama City is a booming international hub of trade and finance. This is a place that’s drawing in wealthy and worldly folks from across the globe. I should know… Several members of my team currently reside there or spent years living in the city, which speaks to its international appeal.
Panama City is a booming world city. You’ll find towering skyscrapers…luxury hotels…world-class restaurants…and sprawling shopping malls here. Learn about some of the top attractions in Panama City here.
Walk the streets of Panama City today and you’ll see all the hallmarks of a modern, affluent destination—trendy cafés…craft beer bars…fine-dining restaurants…designer clothing boutiques…expansive shopping malls…
But Panama City also has a unique appeal. This is a place where modern skyscrapers meet centuries-old colonial buildings, and lush rainforests coexist with cosmopolitan living.
With that in mind, I asked some Panama-based members of my Real Estate Trend Alert team to share their picks of the best things to see and do in and around Panama City.
You can read their top 15 recommendations here.
Why My Scout Just Flew to Italy
Our scouting for new opportunities never stops…
While most of my team are razor-focused on Panama’s Pacific Riviera, and the incredible upcoming RETA deal there, my scout, Ciaran Madden, is putting boots on the ground in Italy.
As you read this, Ciaran should have arrived in Rome. From there, he’s spending the week driving right across central Italy, investigating under-the-radar towns and cities and hunting for exceptional value real estate.
On his itinerary is a town that has had success in enticing foreigners with a €1 homes program. (Ciaran has already visited towns in Sicily with similar programs including Mussomeli, a charming town nestled on a hilltop 90 minutes’ drive southeast of the Sicilian capital, Palermo, you can read about what he discovered in Sicily here.)
He’ll also be visiting a medieval town that was voted the most beautiful in all of Italy in 2023…a tall order in a country that’s filled with picturesque towns and villages.
Ciaran’s not there for the scenery, though. In this town, you can buy apartments in historic buildings from around €50,000 and villas overlooking a stunning lake from under €200,000. That’s worth investigating.
Stay tuned… In the week ahead, Ciaran will be sharing his notes from the road here in Your Overseas Dream Home.
This town, voted the prettiest in Italy, climbs the slopes of an ancient volcanic crater. Does it stack up as a place to live or invest? My scout is exploring it this week to find out…
Your Questions Answered
Have a question or comment for me or my team? A question about the opportunity in Playa Caracol? A destination you’d like us to scout. Share it here. I’d love to hear from you. Here’s a question I got from a reader…
Sharyn P. asks: Hi Ronan, I’ve recently signed up to get your emails as I’m interested in buying a home overseas. Obviously you talk a lot about your Real Estate Trend Alert group and the deals you bring to members. But can you tell me exactly how a RETA deal works?
Ronan says: Hi Sharyn, thanks for your question and welcome! This is a great question and one I get a lot. I founded RETA in 2008 because I wanted to be part of a group of like-minded investors…people who recognize, like me, the incredible opportunities in overseas real estate, and who understand that there’s always opportunity somewhere, when you look everywhere.
I searched in vain for such a group, but there was none…so I created my own. That’s RETA
Today, RETA members get in-depth market analysis and guidance on international real estate investing, reports from the road, access to a website with a vast library of resources (videos, updates, reports, books). I also share one-off opportunities as I find them.
But the real juice of RETA membership, the biggest benefit of all, are the off-market RETA member-only deals. These are deals I negotiate exclusively for RETA members on best-in-class real estate in the world’s most desirable destinations. I use the awesome buying power RETA has as a group to get members an off-market price that ordinary buyers never see.
Now, for a deal to cut my muster (to be “RETA-grade”), I have to see clear potential to double our money invested in five years. I particularly love deals that offer us rapid appreciation and enormous income potential. I only bring deals I would be happy to invest in myself, and I often buy alongside members.
An off-market RETA-only deal must see us paying much less than anyone else, which means we’re locking in significant gains from the get-go.
It’s usually pre-release, meaning that we’re buying way in advance of the developer’s official wide-scale retail launch. Oftentimes you’ll find that local brokers and insiders aren’t even aware that RETA members are getting a deal, and when they find out they don’t believe the RETA-only price.
Why do these developers agree to offer us the unbeatable pricing they do? Well, it’s a simple win-win for each side. The developer gets quick and discreet sales from our group…allowing him to go to the local market with sales under his belt and the confidence to charge higher retail prices (i.e. the price everyone else pays)…and RETA members get a deal at a price no one else can even dream of.
When I find a potential deal, my team and I do a lot of due diligence before I bring the deal to RETA members. We run a fine toothcomb through the opportunity, analyzing every detail. We put boots on the ground, kick rocks on the site of projects, speak directly with the key people involved, dig deep on all of our intelligence.
The vast majority of deals that I investigate don’t make it past this step. The tiny number that do have passed months (and sometimes even years) of vetting. They are the cream of the crop.
Developer Alfredo Aleman shows my scout Eoin plans for the next phase of Playa Caracol. My team do extensive due diligence on every deal…
When I’m ready to tell RETA members about a new deal (like, for example, our upcoming deal in Playa Caracol on Panama’s Pacific Riviera), over the course of about a week, I share everything about the new opportunity in the form of reports, photos, renders, maps, videos…everything members need to assess my analysis and the deal.
I’ll tell members what makes this deal so good, why it makes sense as an investment, and why I expect it will be profitable. And I tell members to be ready on a certain day and certain time—when the deal will open. Then I launch it to all Real Estate Trend Alert members.
In the case of our Caracol launch, Deal Open day is this Wednesday, October 23, at 1 p.m. ET.
Normally, I will send several emails over the course of a launch because one email is easily glanced over or missed. After reading my research, it’s up to members to decide whether to act on the deal or not.
Since most deals have limited inventory, you need to act quickly when the deal goes live. If the deal is for you, you inquire, and the developer’s team walk you through picking your home, figuring out the payment plan and financing, and any other questions that you might have.
Every deal won’t suit your personal investment needs. That’s okay. RETA is designed to bring you a range of deals so that you can choose the ones that suit your needs best. But all of them come with big profit potential.
To get access to these deals, click here to learn how you can become a RETA member.
