Belize Property Guide

If you’re looking for a place to buy a property in 2009, what about Belize?  It’s a spectacularly beautiful nation with a fabulous climate, it’s part of the British Commonwealth and English is the main language in Belize, tourism is on the increase, the nation is considered safe and stable – and if all that wasn’t enough to persuade you, what about the fact that it’s a celebrity hotspot?

Not only are Hollywood stars drawn to holiday in Belize, but the likes of Leonardo di Caprio and Francis Ford Coppola already own celebrity property in the nation – and if you buy in, you could literally be rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous.

In this article we look at reasons to buy property in Belize including the celebrity factor!

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There are an estimated 77 million babyboomers in America who are embarking upon or about to enter into retirement – and thanks to the dire state of the US economy, the way the stock markets have crashed and housing markets across the States are depressed, a new study by Ernst and Young shows that up to 60% of these babyboomers will have to cut their living standards by a quarter if they want to survive in retirement.

The study by the global accounting giant has looked at how Americans are going to survive on the shrunken pension pots the majority of them now have following America’s terrible economic crisis.  It discovered that for the majority of American retirees, they just don’t have sufficient financial assets to see them through their retirement if they stay living the same life in America.

It is precisely this reason why more American retirees now choose to live in Belize in retirement, because in Belize they can live tax efficiently, they can live for less, they can live in more affordable homes and enjoy an even better standard of living than they currently have in depressed America.

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You might think that investing in property anywhere in the world right now is tantamount to madness – after all house prices in the US and UK are falling and therefore the value of our equity is on the slide.  Added to this it is getting harder and harder to arrange domestic mortgages let alone raise one to buy abroad.  But what if I were to tell you that there really is one market in the world where it still makes sense to buy property?

It’s true – and I’m not alone in my thinking either - the likes of The Wall Street Journal and Coldwell Banker agree with me!  The market I’m talking about is Belize and here’s not just one but ten reasons to invest in property in Belize when all around you real estate markets are failing!

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