In Focus: Europe

As you ski lazily down a gentle slope, a ray of sunshine hits your face, and you look down to...

Two weeks after Trump was declared the victor in last November’s presential election, the dollar surged to a one-year high....

One part of culture shock I cannot get over, no matter how many years I’ve been in Greece, is the...

A couple weeks ago, I joined a few colleagues for the 2025 Top 14 Retirement Havens Webinar. On January 10,...

If you are looking for a home blessed with Algarve sun and sea, but without the tourist hordes that converge...

We’ve just released our annual Overseas Retirement Index and, as always, this massive undertaking is met with great excitement… In...

With great anticipation we await the launch of our 2025 Overseas Retirement Index, coming next week… I can’t divulge the...

I’m about to ring in my seventh year as a resident in France, and I’ve so far celebrated in a...

By American standards, the holiday season starts early in Europe… Halloween isn’t traditionally celebrated here, and Thanksgiving doesn’t exist, so...

Minho, Portugal, marches to the beat of its own drum… As if being the birthplace of Portugal wasn’t enough, Minho...

I would argue that most things in life are better with a twist… something unusual… unexpected… unfamiliar… makes anything more...

As we prepare for our upcoming Live And Invest in Europe Virtual Conference, I’ve been getting in touch with contacts...

Braga is one of Europe’s oldest municipalities, founded over 2,000 years ago. Portugal’s third-largest urban area delivers an authentic Portuguese...

I am a few hours from flying back to Paris from my one-time home of Panama, where I lived for...

The moment we decided to pack our lives into suitcases and make the leap across the Atlantic to Portugal, I...

American retirees looking to move overseas often wonder how they’ll be regarded in their new home abroad… In Europe, you’ll...

Tucked in the northeast corner of Spain, Catalonia shares a border with France and Andorra and, in addition to a...

After our Live And Invest in Spain Conference in mid-September, we hosted our Elite Members for special activities, the first...

High prices, a high mortgage rate, and dwindling supply... Prospective homebuyers in the United States face a near-impossible situation, and...

Autumn in Europe is all about harvest and local food festivals, with a number of these events taking place all...

Looking for an old-world retirement, rich with history, café lunches, wine on the terrace, and the kind of laid-back, cultured...

“At least it’s Paris we’re going back to…” I sighed to my husband and daughter as we packed up to...

I give a presentation for our annual Live and Invest in Europe Conferences… sharing my “expat story,” as we refer...

We held our first ever Live And Invest in Spain Conference in November last year, and I eagerly look forward...

Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, has so many nicknames and claims to fame, it’s hard to highlight just one aspect of...

Why Europe? It’s been a while since I considered the question… Let’s take a step back today and reconsider Europe...

Cordon Bleu pastry chef, Frédéric Hoël, held up two handfuls of dough, one that you could have mistaken for a...

In 1964 “Goldfinger”, the third instalment in the James Bond franchise, hit movie theaters across the U.S. It had it...

As excited as we all are for the Olmpics to come to the City of Light next month, and much...

2024 is going to be big for global property investors, especially in Europe. Key to having a profitable year is...

Seventeen years ago I flew into sunny, cosmopolitan Barcelona and thought what a great place this would be to live,...

Years ago, my mother knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast...

I’m in Spain again, much to my delight, for our first-ever Live And Invest In Spain Conference. Some sunshine, seafood,...

Ireland is one of the richest countries in the world, with a per capita GDP of US$125,000. But only 51...

In the Great Age of Discovery, ships went forth from Europe to the far reaches of the earth, bringing back...

We often get questions from readers about currency risk when moving overseas… Concerns about currency exchange fluctuations are valid, especially...

If you’re after a historic country house with lots of land, Gascony, France, is one of the best places in...

Portugal has long been a popular holiday and second-home destination… But its popularity has skyrocketed in the past few years—particularly...

For the lowest beachfront prices in the Mediterranean, look no further than Northern Cyprus, ranking #1 on our list of...

One sunny summer afternoon in 2012 I had the most expensive lunch of my life. Kathleen, the kids, and I...

Laura Washburn, a chef originally from California, and her British husband, Ian, moved to the village of Fourcès, in the...

Having just released our  2024 Overseas Retirement Index, we’re eager to be able to share some of the newcomers to...

Drumroll, please… Announcing, the Best Place To Retire In Europe (And The World) for 2024: Valencia, Spain! City of Joy......

We’ve just released our annual Overseas Retirement Index, and, as always, this massive undertaking is met with great excitement… In...

We’ve just released our annual Overseas Retirement Index, and, as always, this massive undertaking is met with great excitement… In...

One of the best things about living in Europe, and one you’ll hear touted by all expats who come to...

Portugal is home to Europe’s best beaches, 1,115 miles of coastline, and 300 days a year (3,300 hours) of sunny...

A lot has happened in Portugal recently: • The Non-Habitual Residents (NHR) regime expires on Dec. 31, 2023. • The...

Last week at our Live And Invest In Spain Conference I gave a presentation on bringing your pets overseas with...