Author: Liz Larroquette

Yesterday was officially the first time in almost three months that we could move freely in Panama. “Opening up” started by being able to run, walk and even ride a bicycle outside, but yesterday was almost total freedom. It was both glorious and frightening. Everyone wanted to resume some kind of normality but we’ve gotten so […]

Our lives will forever be changed by COVID-19. I didn’t know I could slow down, and I certainly didn’t know I could actually cook, but I do both now with ease. I read books and I make a great curry. I’ve watched as Mother Earth has begun a cleansing. You can see the Los Angeles skyline. […]

Recently we hosted a webinar with Jose Manuel Bern of Empresas Bern, one of the most respected business leaders in Panama, speaking on a variety of topics ranging from his father’s fight with the COVID-19 virus to how Panama might look after the country returns to some kind of new normal. The webinar was very well […]

It’s hard to think about anything other than COVID-19. It’s not just the fact you can’t move about freely, or that suddenly you don’t have a job to go to, it’s that this invisible monster impacts every aspect of daily life. Almost everything is out of your immediate control. Keeping focused and planning for when we […]

I wake up each morning and quickly check the reported numbers for COVID-19 in Panama, somehow thinking maybe they won’t be too bad. The map on the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resources Center site showed 2,250 confirmed cases and 59 deaths in Panama as of today, April 8, 2020. With 149 new confirmed cases, we continue to […]

I realize I am one of the lucky ones. I have food and medicine, a clean, safe home and enough funds for my immediate future. I’m not too anxious even though Panama is in complete lock-down. I also know I am lucky that I live in Panama. The news coming out of the United States is […]

Panama has been hit with the COVID-19 virus, but the government and other senior leaders are working in unison to put steps in place which should mitigate the spread of this deadly outbreak.  Generally speaking, all Panamanians are taking the virus seriously and are responding positively to the new regulations.   While it is difficult to […]

The second Johns Hopkins Medicine International Hospital in Panama is under construction in the Panama City suburb of Costa del Este and it promises to promote even further, medical tourism in Panama. It is estimated that 2.2 million citizens from the United States alone will travel internationally in 2020 for medical procedures and thousands of those […]

If managing investments were easy, everyone would do it, routinely driving amazing profits to a portfolio’s bottom line. For new construction real estate investments, every estimated dot on the timeline from concept to completion would be met or exceeded. But, because it’s not easy to be a savvy investor, this scenario rarely happens and when it […]

I am always interested in what type of personality a new residential building is going to develop. I know you are thinking an inanimate object like a building can’t really have a personality and of course, you’d be right! I know it’s really the personalities of the people who inhabit the building, but I also think […]

“I’m 29-years old and I make $125,000 annually, my husband makes $80,000 a year and we have about $60,000 to invest in a piece of property,” said the young woman on the phone. I couldn’t help but smile. This was not the first Millennial buyer I had worked with recently, so I was prepared for the […]