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World-Wide Food Crisis
Most headlines out of Nicaragua this week are regarding the food crisis. There are many reasons why there is a world-wide food crisis right now, and they are mostly political – but I won’t open that can of worms in this post. Memo to self: must remember this blog is about investment. The subject does remind me of a comment I heard recently. It went, “politics is about two things – the first is money, and…I can’t remember the second.”
Food Crisis In Nicaragua
I feel strongly that investing in foreign real estate ties an investor to that land in ways other than those that are self-serving. Fundamentally, that tie involves an ability to respond to the needs of the people on that land. That response-ability is an insurance that the investment made, like the people of that country will prosper. One won’t happen without the other. Investment supports people, people make investments grow, and in Nicaragua, both have a lot of room to grow.
Food Crisis Action Plan
One way you can insure that your investment in Nicaraguan real estate stays healthy, is to do your part and insure the people of Nicaragua stay healthy too. Here’s a short list of quality organizations to contact.
If you are considering investing in real estate in Nicaragua consider the “Community RE Fund Program” set up by Coldwell Banker in Nicaragua. According to their web site, “The REfund model encourages every participant in a real estate transaction to contribute funds at the time of closing. Investing that creates value in society and the environment while at the same time being financially profitable.” (read more)
Affiliated with the RE Fund program in Nicaragua, Dos Manos is a collection of non-profit organizations that focuses on children’s needs and education.
Unlike politics, investing in a country is about more than just one thing, today’s headlines make it easy to remember what it is. Do what you can to help with the food crisis in Nicaragua.
Nicaragua Real Estate
Why invest in Nicaragua real estate, especially now? Here in the U.S. gas prices are crowding four dollars a gallon, the housing market is stalled in many key areas, and fear of a prolonged recession is becoming a reality. The US economy is definitely rattled. In a recent New Yorker article by Ian Buruma titled After America the author puts into words the fears on a lot of investors’ minds, he writes regarding this year’s meeting of world leaders in Davos, Switzerland,
“The first time I visited this august assemblage, around the turn of the century, the received opinion was that the United States was so far ahead of the rest of the world that no one could ever catch up. This year in Davos, America’s fall was on everyone’s lips.”
What “fall” means is up for speculation. However, it could be that now is the perfect time for US investors to seek investments that have future global potential for growth. While real estate investment in the U.S. is a can of worms, real estate investment in Nicaragua is continuing to grow. In a recent post, Mike Cobb, CEO of Gran Pacifica and Barry Dufresne, President of Stealth Financial Services on their Nicaraguan real estate investment new letter write,
“Although the flow from the US has slowed down considerably, investments from other nations in the region, Europe and Asia continue to be strong and new ventures are springing up around the country.”
The development of millions of new middle class wage earners in countries such as India, China, and Russia, is and will create immense amounts of disposable income. Some of this new income will be earmarked for tropical vacations. Many investors see the potential of Nicaragua’s pristine coasts as poised to become major new tropical tourist destinations. Now is not the time for savvy U.S. investors to get caught up in domestic fear by thinking inside the box, perhaps it’s time to think about investing outside the country, in Nicaragua.
