There are 5 Stages That Every Expat Market Goes Through, Understand Them and Profit.
Market Stages are crucial for real estate investors to make sense of property prices in Central America.
Especially when those prices seem so irrational.
It took me a long time to wrap my left-brained, over analytical, where-are-the-market comps? mind to wrap itself around property values and markets in Central America.
How did I finally get a grip on the apparent chaos?
Market Stages – The Missing Link
We wrote in a more boring and detailed way about market stages over on our investor blog. Then we decided to make an infographic to help you first understand the stages.
Once you understand what the stages are, there are all sorts of ways they can help you and we’re going to write about those.
Things like:
- Pricing: How to value properties in Central America
- Business Plans: What should I build?
- Customers: Who is going to buy my real estate?
- Timing: What in the world drives the timing of real estate markets in Central America?
We’ll get to that. But first, use this infographic to learn the stages.
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