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Strongholds of Value: Buy Uruguay, Buy Argentina
Why Emotional Investors Lose
Why Emotional Investors Lose
Beware of Investing With the Masses
How to buy land at 50% off
Never Trust Your Overseas Real Estate “Friend”
Invest in a Vineyard in Argentina
Asia’s Next Big Thing (and How to Buy Land Here)
Buy What You See
Argentina—Where Your Dollars Still Buy a Lot of Land
A Beachfront Investment for Less Than $50,000
Uruguay: Buy raw land for $2 per square meter
Live on Your Own Vineyard…From $165,000
Gringo Dollars
Double Your Money in Uruguay
Four Tips to Help You Get a Dream House
Buy Bucharest
The Best Way to Buy in Romania
Cash in on Eastern Europe—Buy Bucharest Now
How to Finance an International Property Investment
Where I'm Looking to Buy Right Now
Bucharest: An Abundance of Opportunity
Where to invest your dollars in 2008: Our real estate insiders' top picks
Where to Find Low-risk Real Estate Investments
Wiping Your Face
Where to Find Low-risk Real Estate Investments
Beware: Guaranteed Rental Returns Exist in Only One Place
Three Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a Piece of Real Estate Overseas
“Go Local” and Live on $500 a Month in Mexico
Remember: Americans Don’t Drive All World Property Markets
Remember: Americans Don’t Drive All World Property Markets
Rare Auction Opportunity in Casco Viejo
Lief Simon
Lief Simon, IL’s global real estate consultant, spends half the year traveling in search of real estate opportunities around the world. In addition to excellent potential returns and the opportunity to travel, he feels that international real estate offers two key benefits to the investor: diversification and asset protection.
Lief has personally invested in real estate in more than a dozen countries. He holds an MBA in international management and has worked for an accounting firm, an international oil company, and as the CFO for a hospitality design and consulting firm that renovates hotels around the world.
Lief is a frequent contributor to International Living and writes the Saturday Edition Postcard on international real estate investing.