{"id":8199,"date":"2013-07-30T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T19:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=8199"},"modified":"2013-07-31T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T21:39:19","slug":"retiring-way-way-south-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/retiring-way-way-south-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring Way, Way South of the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/expat-retired-couple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8200\" title=\"Older Couple Walking Along Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/expat-retired-couple-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/expat-retired-couple-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/expat-retired-couple-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/expat-retired-couple.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a great article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal about the growth of retirees headed south of the border, way south!!<\/p>\n<p>When Steven and Robin Fine started searching for a place in Latin  America to spend their early retirement, they looked at spots in Mexico  and Costa Rica, both popular destinations for American retirees. On a  trip two years ago, they decided to stop by Panama, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought we would like Panama the least,&#8221; Mr. Fine, 51 years old, a  former communications executive said, &#8220;but we liked it the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The combination of luxury apartment  buildings, good restaurants and modern hospitals drew the couple to  Panama City, where 1\u00bd years ago they spent $1.1 million, plus about  $250,000 on renovations, on a 48th-floor penthouse with a view of the  Pacific. It is now their full-time home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/panama-condo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8201\" title=\"panama condo\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/panama-condo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/panama-condo.jpg 553w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/panama-condo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Central American nations of  Panama, Belize and Nicaragua are increasingly competing with Costa Rica  and Mexico for North American retirees and second-home buyers. New  luxury developments, outfitted with spas, restaurants, marinas and golf  courses, are on the rise. Builders say they are using more high-end  materials and adding upscale amenities designed to appeal to affluent  American buyers.<\/p>\n<p>These countries offer packages of residency and breaks on taxes and fees that imitate Costa Rica&#8217;s <em>pensionado<\/em> program, which was introduced in 1971 and helped set the groundwork for  a boom in retiree emigration from North America. Nicaragua added such a  law in 2009, offering foreigners with retirement incomes tax breaks on  everything from cars to construction materials. Last year, Panama, which  has a long-established retiree program, created a path to citizenship  for retirement residents and introduced a new residency program for  people under retirement age that has lowered requirements for investment  in property, business and other ventures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The message of this law is simple,&#8221; said Panama City-based attorney  Manoj Chatlani of Panama Offshore Legal Services. &#8220;It&#8217;s &#8216;Come to  Panama.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/retire-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8202\" title=\"retire pic\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/retire-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"1413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of Americans who collect Social Security in Panama jumped  65% to 2,164 between 2006 and 2011, the latest year for which there is  information. In Nicaragua, the figure more than doubled in the same  period, from 595 to 1,322. Belize&#8217;s number, too tiny for the Social  Security Administration to track in years past, was 560 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Panama&#8217;s explosive growth\u2014gross domestic product increased by an  average of 8.5% annually since 2008, according to International Monetary  Fund estimates\u2014has drawn American workers and businesses to Panama City  over the past decade. Now, local developers are courting another  population, focusing on building amenity-rich planned communities  outside the city to appeal to North American retirees.<\/p>\n<p>Boquete, a town about 40 miles from the Costa Rican border, offers  high-end gated communities, an established expat community, cool  mountain temperatures and tropical-rainforest landscape.\u00a0 More people are coming to Boquete each year as it has been ranked in the top ten retirement locations by the AARP for many years now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boquete-townjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8204\" title=\"boquete townjpg\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boquete-townjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boquete-townjpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/boquete-townjpg-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><strong> <\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the east side of Panama City, a 700-acre  community called Santa Maria Golf &amp; Country Club is being built to  include 4,000 colonial-style houses, townhouses and condominiums, and a  golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus&#8217;s company. The homes, yet to be  completed, sell for about $278 a square foot, a &#8220;top price&#8221; in Panama  City, said Kent Davis, broker at Panama Equity Real Estate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/santa-maria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8205\" title=\"santa maria\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/santa-maria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/santa-maria.jpg 640w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/santa-maria-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Santa Maria is a product that hadn&#8217;t existed in Panama before: the  luxury suburban community\u2014more American-style larger lots,&#8221; Mr. Davis  said. Most pre-delivery buyers have been Panamanians; local agents say  they expect American interest to rise as the development nears  completion in five to 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"U902047331202AAE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Belize, a small, English-speaking  nation with a population of about 330,000, has been popular for years as  a scuba-diving and ecotourism destination. High-end properties had to  be custom-built until the early 2000s, when developers started putting  up &#8220;single homes here and there,&#8221; said Hugo Moguel, president of the  Association of Real Estate Brokers of Belize, which is launching the  country&#8217;s first multiple-listing service in August.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"U902047331202PDH\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, developers are attempting to sell  Belize as a luxury-living place to retire. New developments include  Sanctuary Belize, a 14,000-acre development slated for completion in  three years that will have 2,000 residential lots, 250 condominiums and  townhouses, and a 220- to 250-slip marina. The buildings&#8217;  poured-concrete construction meets Dade County, Fla.,  hurricane-resistant standards, said Luke Chadwick, a partner in  Eco-Futures Development. Developer financing is available.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"U902047331202UIB\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the 600 lots Sanctuary has sold so  far, 80% of them have been to Americans, he said. The core demographic  is &#8220;50 to 65 year olds, either in retirement or planning for  retirement,&#8221; Mr. Chadwick added. Lot prices range from $149,000 to $1  million for an acre overlooking the Caribbean, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"U902047331202BO\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom and Tricia Herskowitz moved into  their 7,000-square-foot compound in Sanctuary this past September, lured  by the boat slip and Caribbean access. &#8220;The fact that the country is  English speaking and is a Commonwealth country was attractive to us,&#8221;  said Mr. Herskowitz, 68, a retired executive and business-school  professor.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"U902047331202A5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid growing tourism\u2014and aided by the  lowering of a foreigner transaction tax in 2006\u2014there has been a boom in  luxury-condo developments, especially on the island of Ambergris Caye,  popular with expats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are beachfront condos going up that are going to feature  elevators, which didn&#8217;t exist in Belize before. Most of the buyers are  baby boomers and they are aging,&#8221; said Dmitri Ioudine, owner of Coldwell  Banker Ambergris Caye Ltd. Local builders say building materials have  improved as local suppliers bring in higher-end materials.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"U902047331202FGF\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite their inroads with American  retirees, these countries still don&#8217;t attract the same numbers as more  established destinations, such as Mexico and Costa Rica. In 2011, more  than 50,000 Americans collected Social Security in Mexico and more than  5,000 in Costa Rica. But Mexico&#8217;s well-publicized drug war and  escalating violence are starting to push Americans to look at new places  for retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Central America, however, has its own problems with crime. The U.S.  Department of State labeled the crime rate in Nicaragua &#8220;critical&#8221; and  the murder rate in Belize &#8220;extremely high,&#8221; though concentrated in  Belize City and not in tourist areas. In Costa Rica, petty crime such as  theft and &#8220;smash and grab&#8221; muggings have increased in the past couple  of years, along with home invasions.<\/p>\n<p>In Panama, murders and gun violence have decreased in recent years,  but reported rape and theft have increased. &#8220;Panama remains relatively  safe when compared with other Central American countries, yet crime  rates are higher than one would encounter in most of the United States,&#8221;  says the State Department&#8217;s 2013 report.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Prescher, who leads conferences by International Living, a  provider of information for people interested in retiring abroad, says  urban crime rates can exaggerate safety issues in other areas of a  country. Still, he warns that public security isn&#8217;t always adequate in  the region.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"U902047331202UTE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicaragua is the latest country to  attempt to grab North American interest. In Guacalito de la Isla, a  16,070-acre coastal development\u2014with 600 residences, a pool, restaurant  and gym\u2014is under construction. A two-hour drive from Managua&#8217;s  international airport, the project includes a plan to open a small  airport by 2015. The first homes\u201428 single-family houses\u2014will be turned  over to owners in September. The four-bedroom, four-bath pool houses  sold for between $700,000 and $750,000, said Jeff Lawrence, director of  real estate. A luxury hotel-resort on the property, Mukul, opened in  January and has helped boost sales, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The buyers right now are 85% Nicaraguan and 15% U.S. based,&#8221; Mr.  Lawrence said. &#8220;There is an education hurdle for us to convince people  that Nicaragua is safe and is a tropical paradise.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal about the growth of retirees headed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles-panama-perpsective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Retiring 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