In this week’s Your Overseas Dream Home Digest…
- VIDEO: Portugal Real Estate 2026: Why I Bought in Caminha
- An Artist’s Italian Villa for $175K
- Five Countries Where Foreign Buyers Can Get a Mortgage
- The Most Overlooked Capital in the Americas
- Your Questions Answered on Buying in Destinations That Offer Residency
Over 20+ years as a real estate investor and scout, I’ve learned that the best opportunities are often in destinations that feel overlooked and underappreciated.
Places where the story on the ground is far ahead of the common perception…
That’s why my team and I spend more than $1 million a year on travel and research. To put boots on the ground. To get the real story…long before it hits the headlines.
That’s the theme of today’s digest.
I’m going to take you to the most overlooked capital in the Americas…
To a small town in Italy where my team found a listing for a stunning villa…
And to a little-known coastal community in northern Portugal where I own a historic mansion.
Let’s begin in Portugal…
This is the capital I consider the most overlooked in the Americas. Read on to learn where it is…
VIDEO: Northern Portugal Real Estate 2026: Why I Bought in Caminha
Earlier this week, the first full video on my new YouTube channel, The Ronan McMahon Report, went live.
And in it, I showcase one of my own recent real estate buys in Northern Portugal.
Inside, I break down what’s happening on the ground in Northern Portugal today…showcase the property I’ve bought in the historic town of Caminha…and explain why this stretch of coast offers one of the most compelling opportunities in Europe right now.
Click below to watch…
And when you’re done, share your thoughts and questions in the comments below the video. My team and I read them all. (At the bottom of this digest is a question a viewer left on the intro video to my channel. Read on to see my answer.)
In this first destination deep-dive on my new YouTube channel, I take you to a town in Northern Portugal where I’ve bought a 5,000-square-foot historic villa. Click to view…
I’ll be releasing a new destination deep-dive every Thursday on my new YouTube channel. Coming up, I’ll take you to places like:
- An emerging city in Baja California some are calling the “next Cabo”…
- A fast-rising luxury enclave in the Caribbean with Monaco-level potential…
- A hill town in Sicily overlooking the Mediterranean where homes sell for less than the price of a new car…
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An Artist’s Italian Villa for $175K
In the historic center of a northern Italian town, tucked among quiet lanes and old stone buildings, is a villa that caught my attention.
My team recently featured it on our Your Overseas Dream Home Instagram account.
At first glance, it looks like the kind of period home you might expect to find in Lombardy, near the Swiss border in northern Italy—elegant, atmospheric, full of old-world character. But the deeper you look, the more unusual it becomes.
This was once the home and studio of a local sculptor whose work is still preserved in the town museum.
And its two floors each consist of a self-contained apartment…
This villa is listed for just €150,000, or about $175,000.
A discreet façade hides an unusual home in northern Italy. Read more about this villa here.
Five Countries Where Foreign Buyers Can Get a Mortgage
A quick aside…
If you were to purchase the villa featured above, as a non-resident buyer you could access mortgages up to 50% in Italy.
But what about other countries?
A question I hear often from readers is this: Can foreigners get mortgages overseas?
A lot of people assume the answer is no—that if you want to buy property abroad, you need to arrive with a suitcase full of cash.
But that’s not how it works in a number of markets on my global real estate beat. In some countries, banks actively lend to international buyers…although, to be clear, these countries are the exception rather than the norm.
I’ve used local financing myself many times, including when I bought a historic villa in Caminha, in northern Portugal.
And Europe isn’t the only place where this is possible.
I share five countries where you can get overseas financing, including one Caribbean destination.
Over the past 10 years, Portugal has become one of the world’s most popular destinations for second home owners. A key attraction is the availability of local financing. Learn about it and four more destinations where you can get overseas mortgages here.
The Most Overlooked Capital in the Americas
Jumping back to “hidden” destinations…
This week I’ve been telling members of my Real Estate Trend Alert (RETA) group about one of the most overlooked capitals in the Americas: Asunción, Paraguay.
I scouted Asunción last year and was blown away by what I found. You can watch a video where I recorded my first impressions here.
This is a city that feels young. Confident. Upwardly mobile. And Paraguay is a country with amazing economic fundamentals.
It has vast supplies of clean, low-cost electricity in a world increasingly desperate for power.
It sits on some of the most productive farmland on the planet, exporting food to global markets.
It has one of the simplest and lowest tax regimes anywhere in the Americas.
And it has something most developed countries are starting to lose, a young population moving into its prime earning and spending years.
Put all that together and you have the kind of economic foundation that can drive growth for decades.
And yet despite this, prices here look like they come from a completely different era…$3 for an Uber…$12 for a steak…brand-new condos in luxury towers from $100,000…
This city is an incredible discovery. I figure values in Asunción’s prime neighborhoods could 3X over the next decade…
If you’re not a RETA member, stay tuned. I’ll be giving you a chance to join my club at a special price very soon.
I see a clear path for real estate to 3X or more over the next decade in this rising capital.
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 viewer of my YouTube channel recently…
Wishing you good real estate investing,
P.S. Don’t forget to check out my channel and leave your thoughts in the comments of the videos. I’ll be dropping a new deep dive each week. To get notified of every future episode, subscribe to my channel here.
