Friday, August 04, 2006

Diversifying Your Real Estate Business

As you may already know, LandBlueBookInternational.com has renewed its technology, providing more convenience to its visitors and land brokers. Our innovative website offers land brokers from today, the current technology needed to market their land. Now with our new Blogger, we can provide more ways to expose your land to the rest of the world.

As we have mentioned before, we appreciate you making comments about our articles in Blogger in order for us to make improvements. We would also like to encourage you to help us be informed, and help inform others about real estate in your country. We have already posted an article in our Blogger written by the Migration Policy Institute, which talks about the US senior citizen migration to Mexico and Panama. If you are aware of any interesting facts about real estate in your country, we would like for you to tell us about it through e-mail. When we receive this information, we will add a link on our Blogger for other people to read and comment about it. Of course, we will not be the only ones to benefit from this. We will randomly select a few people whom have sent us this type of information and post one of their listings, as well as a link to their homepage in our Blogger for FREE. This gives you a chance to get more advertisement for your land throughout the world! LandBlueBookInternational.com is always trying to help you advertise your land more efficiently. This is why this month we are offering FREE international land listings on our website. From now until August 31st you can post your international land listings for FREE and expose them to our thousands of visitors daily! Remember that before posting a listing, you need to open a FREE Account with LandBlueBookInternational.com; if you already have an account, click on the button below and follow the steps provided.


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Thursday, August 03, 2006

America's Emigrants: US Retirement Migration to Mexico and Panama

"In recent years a steadily growing stream of Americans has been heading south to Latin America, particularly for retirement. And as the baby boom generation ages, that stream is expected to gain speed. It will be carried along by rising medical costs, a reduced ability to rely on Social Security and pensions, and cheaper transportation and communications technology. A growing body of literature examines international retirement migration, but comparatively little is known about Americans who have retired to Latin America, particularly outside Mexico; why or how they decided to retire there; and what their experiences are in their new communities.
The size of the US-born senior population (those aged 55 or older) grew substantially in both Mexico and Panama between 1990 and 2000, and data suggest that these flows continue to increase rapidly. According to census figures, Mexico saw the number of US-born senior residents increase by 17 percent, while Panama saw a 136 percent increase during this period. In Mexico, where more geographically specific information is available, some of the municipalities with the fastest growth of this population were established expatriate retiree communities: Chapala (increase of 581.4 percent), Los Cabos (308.3 percent), and San Miguel de Allende (47.7 percent). At sites in both Panama and Mexico, real estate agents, developers, attorneys, and insurance brokers pointed out repeatedly that this growth had continued locally in the post-2000 years, reaching what one called a “frenzy” in Panama. Visa statistics from Panama, likely to capture only a subset of people who live there part- or year-round,showed that the number of US citizens obtaining pensioner visas more than tripled between 2003 and 2005 ...read more"

from America's Emigrants: US Retirement Migration to Mexico and Panama by Migration Policy Institute