Morning sun filters through the palms as you step outside, a cup of coffee in hand. A soft breeze carries the smell of salt on the air. From your terrace, you can hear the ocean—steady, rhythmic, close.
When the coffee is finished, you slip on sandals, grab your keys, and set out for the beach.
Just two minutes on foot, and you’re there.
As you wander down the sandy path, you pass a barefoot surfer with a board under his arm. Farther along, a couple holding hands walks the shoreline in comfortable silence.
There’s a sense of serenity…contentment…
Imagine living a two-minute walk from this stunning beach. Read on to find out how you can make that a reality, for far less than you might imagine…
It’s early, but the beach is already alive in that quiet, effortless way only true beachfront communities know.
Behind you, the Cerro Chame mountains climb green and majestic, offering a dramatic backdrop to this rare pocket of paradise. In front of you, the Pacific stretches wide and shimmering.
Here the days unfold in barefoot ease…
The rhythmic sound of the waves is the closest thing you have to a timekeeper. No one is in a rush…not here.
And there are so many pleasant ways to occupy yourself. The surfing is world class. You can take a boat out to fish or see whales giving birth.
The islands offshore have fascinating stories. You can explore them easily on day trips. One was owned by John Wayne and has an abandoned Western World theme park on it. Another is home to two painted fishing villages and you can hike the island’s trails and watch for birds.
Here, your day is shaped not by plans, but by pleasures. A hike. A surf. A lazy afternoon hammock nap. Everything unfolds easily—naturally. When the beach is your front yard and the mountains your backyard, it’s not about finding things to do. It’s about choosing which dream to follow today.
And you feel you’re part of something special here: a beachfront community, tucked between sea and mountains.
This is Playa Caracol…and it’s all yours.
The Cerro Chame mountains, together with the Pacific Ocean, frame Playa Caracol. This is the closest, nicest beach to Panama City.
This place has come a long way…
About 17 years ago, a trusted contact promised that if I could withstand a bumpy drive, I’d get to see one of the most beautiful beaches in all of Panama.
It was a big claim. My contact, though, was true to his word. At the end of a bone-shaking road, he showed me a stunning beach that opened up to the Pacific Ocean sparkling like a jewel. And beyond that, I could see Panama City shimmering in the distance.
I knew right away that this was something spectacular: the nicest, closest beach to Panama’s booming, cosmopolitan capital city.
Back then, this stretch of coast was completely unknown and undeveloped. But fast-forward to today and it’s emerging as the premier beach community in all of Panama.
Now, I’ve negotiated an incredible new off-market deal on condos here, with pricing starting from just $228,400 in this true beachfront community.
Just five years after our condos are delivered, I expect them to be worth $350,000—a gain of $121,600 (and that’s conservative).
The beach at Playa Caracol is known as an excellent surfing spot.
Normally, stunning off-market deals like this that I negotiate are exclusive to members of my Real Estate Trend Alert (RETA) group. But I wanted to open this deal up to you as an Overseas Dream Home reader, and give you a taste of what being a RETA member means. And what a difference it can make to your life…
On Tuesday, May 13 at 1 p.m. ET, I’m taking part in a special LIVE Panama beach homes online event hosted by International Living Executive Editor Jennifer Stevens.
It’s free to watch and we’ll be digging into the details of this new opportunity in Playa Caracol, including how to act on this deal. Add it to your calendar here.
Plus, if you have any questions, you can reach out now to our RETA concierges. Modeled on the best luxury concierge services in the world, the RETA concierge team has a single-minded mission: To help RETA members get the most out of their membership. Our two RETA concierges live in Panama full-time. And as part of opening this deal up to you, I’m giving you special access to the concierge team. You can schedule a call with them here.
David Hinton is a RETA concierge who lives in Panama. If you have any questions about the upcoming deal, you can schedule a call with him or his fellow concierge, Matt, also a resident of Panama.
Now, let’s orient ourselves…
The Pacific Riviera is the stretch of coast that runs west of Panama City from Chame to Farallon—about 50 miles or so of Pacific beaches.
It’s by far the most developed section of coast in all of Panama. Development began here as far back as the 1940s with the establishment of Coronado, the best-known community on this coast.
From then on other development popped up, gathering speed in the last 15 years or so. New hotels, new resorts, a premium golf course, and swish new residential communities. A slew of upper-middle-class housing back from the beach has brought schools, supermarkets, and services in its wake.
A mammoth “path of progress” is driving west from the city to the Pacific Riviera and Playa Caracol. (A path of progress is anything that improves the accessibility of a piece of real estate and increases its value. Infrastructure like roads, bridges, airports, air, and rail routes. Anything that improves amenities in an area will have the same effect, too.)
But this development leapfrogged Chame and Caracol for three reasons…
- A lack of road access. What passed for a road down Punta Chame peninsula was a car-killing bone-shaker. And there was no road at all to the strip of beach where Playa Caracol is today.
- Most of the land was owned by just a few families that didn’t want to sell.
- Much of the land was zoned for agricultural use.
Here’s the critical thing to understand: Chame is the nicest, closest beach area to Panama City.
That puts everything cosmopolitan Panama City offers within an hour or so from your door…the international airport, world-class hospitals, malls, movie theaters, fine dining, arts and culture…
But, despite Chame being the most obvious place for development to start on the Pacific Riviera…it did not. And so, while the communities farther from Panama City boomed, Chame was left a virgin paradise…a sleeping giant. Waiting for its time to arrive.
That time has now come.
Playa Caracol wasn’t always easy to reach. For a long time, development leap-frogged the Chame peninsula where Caracol sits on a vast stretch of stunning beach.
Today it’s extremely easy to get to Caracol, which connects the community with a pool of potential renters—families, professionals, weekend vacationers, tourists, and, of course, the work-anywhere folks.
The first phase of Playa Caracol has now been realized and the developer is well into the next, which includes plans for a beautiful boardwalk and an entire “village” center. Plans also call for a wedding pavilion, a sports academy, commercial center, supermarkets…everything you expect to find in the perfect beach town.
Major international corporations have taken notice and they’re acting. The Surfside hotel was recently rebranded as a Radisson. And the first Margaritaville in Panama is due to be delivered in Playa Caracol in 2027. This complex will include residences and a resort with signature Margaritaville experiences such as the 5 o’Clock Somewhere Bar and License to Chill Bar & Grill.
It all points to the scale of the opportunity here. Playa Caracol, and indeed Panama itself, are about to burst into the tourism mainstream.
And the new deal I’ve negotiated here is incredible.
Just think about how much beachfront or even waterfront costs around the world…
For example, go to California, to Huntington Beach, and a condo so close to the sand will easily run $800,000 to over $1 million.
In Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, if you want to own a two-bed near the beach expect to pay close to $2 million.
In Dubai—another of the world’s great trading hubs like Panama—condos close to the beach go for 10 times our RETA price.
But with the new Playa Caracol deal, you can own a stunning home two minutes from a vast, pristine stretch of sand from the mind-blowing price of just $228,400. And it puts us in a perfect position to benefit as the world discovers Panama.
I figure on gains of $121,600 just five years after delivery.
As I say, on Tuesday, May 13 at 1 p.m. ET, I’ll take part in a special LIVE Panama beach homes online event hosted by International Living Executive Editor Jennifer Stevens. Stay tuned. I’ll be sending you links to the event before we go live. You can also add it to your calendar here. And you can contact the concierge team here.
Wishing you good real estate investing,
P.S. I’ll be sharing more details of the deal soon. For now, check out this render of the new opportunity. And remember that pricing here starts from just $228,400!
The new opportunity is just two minutes from the sand in a boutique, self-contained community with its own pool. (Renders like this shouldn’t be consider final, but give a great idea.)
