The Panama VIP Can Live in Luxury and Harmony with Nature on Panama Pearl Island
A true VIP lifestyle integrates luxury with adventure, opulence with activity. With this definition in mind we suggest that the Panama VIP take a look at Pearl Island. This development on the third largest island in the Pearl Archipelago should be the illustration in the dictionary entry for “tropical paradise.” The island lies in waters where humpbacks and other whale species come to breed and give birth every year. With over 700 species of fish and over a dozen types of coral the waters around Pearl Island are ideal for scuba diving. The island itself has a hundred and fifty bird species and miscellaneous mammals, amphibians and lizards living in harmony with the natural environment. The development plan for Pearl Island will leave 75% of the island untouched. This integration of luxurious living and a dedication to preserving pristine nature provides the Panama VIP with an authentic private tropical island experience.
A limited number of hotel suites and residences are being developed on the island’s Northern Zancadilla Peninsula as part of the first phase of Pearl Island. These hotel suites and residences are minutes away from Panama City by air and a short boat ride to the island, giving the Panama VIP the best of luxurious seclusion and easy access to the city.
For more information regarding Pearl Island and luxury living in a sustainable natural environment contact VIP Panama today.
There are ordinary places to live in Panama and there are extraordinary locations. Depending upon your preference for sea coasts or mountains, ability to get away from the daily routine, or desire to live the high life in an exciting Latin American capital city Panama offers a number of choices. The following article is about a development in the Chiriqui Highlands. Read on and then contact the Panama Club for the services that will fast track your business, real estate investments, and/or retirement in this tropical paradise.
In looking for the ultimate in luxurious living, upscale amenities, and a setting a of natural beauty, we have looked at seacoast developments and mountain properties. We recommend Valle Escondido in Boquete as an excellent choice for an upscale development with wonderful services in a great setting. There is the luxury of having people wait on you and the luxury of getting to do whatever you want when you want to do it. Valle Escondido fits a bit of both.
Valle Escondido offers spa treatments as well as a golf course for exercise. The surrounding area is replete with nature trails. In fact, people come from all over the world to see what you will have at your doorstep.
Valle Escondido offers meals every day at the resort’s restaurant. Alternatively, you have your own beautiful home for the privacy of an intimate get together.
Valle Escondido’s fitness center has the latest cardiovascular fitness equipment, as well as free weights. There is a racquetball court in case you want to pick up the speed of your workout.
Valle Escondido may be a “hidden valley”, but it is not cut off from the world. Available day activities that you can do from Valle Escondido include white water rafting on class 4 rapids, a very long canopy tree tour, tours of coffee plantations, horseback riding, rental of four wheelers, hiking tours including Volcan Baru and Quetzalas National Parks, a visit to the hot springs at Caldera, a trip to see pre-Columbian petroglyphs, and deep sea fishing 45 minutes away by helicopter on the Caribbean Sea.
This place is a combination of laid-back relaxation and up and at ‘em activity. There are those of us who think that mix is the ideal.
If you are interested in doing business in Panama or doing business with Panama you will want to make the right contacts, hire a competent, English speaking lawyer, and have someone on your side who knows local customs and politics. VIP Panama takes pride in connecting its clients to the right luxury living accommodations, the right business arrangements, and the most discrete entertainment, when required.
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Much of the fun associated with the purchase of a new home arises from the opportunity to begin again with a blank slate. You suddenly have another opportunity to paint your vision of a dream home with new furnishing, textiles, paint colors, and fixtures. So where will you find all of this in the middle of Central America? The answer is easy. You can find the same mix of home center products common to stores like Home Depot at any one of a number of home stores in convenient, modern, Panama.
It is not surprising that new retirees often express concern about their ability to access the goods and materials needed to build their new life offshore. Many nations in the region suffer from an absence of the conveniences that Ex-Pats from the U.S., Canada, and Europe have come to take for granted. This is not the case in Panama.
Many have likened Panama City to Miami. This is an apt comparison as almost anything you can find in Miami, you can also find in Panama City. The urban convenience of Panama City has reached several of Panama’s smaller cities and towns as well. Boquete, one of Panama’s most popular retirement regions, enjoys a full compliment of modern shopping as well as a world class medical center. If you can’t find something in your suburban or rural setting, not to worry—Panama is about the size of Florida. Panama City is an easy drive from just about anywhere.
One of the more significant things to remember is that the financial benefits associated with your move to Panama will help you find more money fto fund your new projects. If you plan the purchase of your retirement home correctly, you can escape the payment of property taxes for as much as 20 years. Calculate this savings against the taxes you paid back home and you’ll feel comfortable spending a few extra dollars to upgrade your new kitchen, or maybe invest in a Jacuzzi tub in the master bath.
The financial benefits of life in Panama are well known. For starters, you will not pay taxes on income you earn outside of the country. This means that the money you earn from social security, pensions, investments, and business conducted offshore is not subject to local taxes. Panamanian law also allows you to invest and bank in absolute secrecy while providing the mechanisms required to create one of the best estate management strategies on earth.
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So Mr. Trump, now that you understand a little of the issues causing anxiety, stress, frustration and anger to local and foreign residents in Panama City, and the costs of letting the frazzle factor continue; perhaps you can offer some innovative answers from your knowledge of the interdependent nature of civilization.
Would you contact all the builders and developers who are profiting in Panama and engender their interest in making moves toward improving the chances of continuing the profitability picture in Panama, as a group? If you chose to influence their participation in a plan to encourage significant changes in the Panama City infrastructure and quality of life…how many would decline the opportunity to meet with you??? And who in the Panamanian government would chose to ignore the recommendations of those who are funding his children’s education in Europe?
Maybe, as a group, you could even help Panama to envision a new immigration management plan! The way things are now…your new residents will have to show up every thirty days to stand in line for hours, with hundreds of people for a new card.
Instead, perhaps those foreign residents could be offered an annually renewable card with billing once a year, if they are not lawbreakers. Software solutions are available, the paradigm can be altered and the frazzle meter no longer has to be so much a part of the human experience…in Panama City.
Who’s going to make a good priority list of what needs to be done? Who’s going to innovate and gather all the forces for good, create the fixes and manage their implementation and re-evaluation? Can you help? It will look good and be good!
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“The greater the anxiety humans feel, ironically, the more impaired is their brain’s cognitive efficiency. In this zone of mental misery, the physical space to take in new information literally shrinks; and as life preoccupies us by anxiety or anger, our mental agility literally sputters to a squeaky halt.”
“Frazzle is word defined as a neural state in which emotional upsurges hamper the workings of the brain center.” Allegedly, while frazzled we cannot concentrate or think clearly. And the premise is that the effects on thinking and performance caused by being mildly upset – frazzled – are initiated by the hassles of everyday life. For your amusement, check out the Science Magazine issue 280 (1998) pp. 1711-1713. Ann Arnsten’s article “The Biology of Being Frazzled” was groundbreaking ten years ago.
Hmm…so if we reduce the amount of frazzle experienced during the day, does that improve the quality of life? It seems to be true. Arnsten says, “The biology of anxiety tosses people out of the sweet zone of brain performance, the basic neurobiology of frazzle causes people to go into the body’s default emergency plan for crisis”. Remove the negative stimuli and thereby remove the frazzle effect.
Here’s where ‘experiencing a life of good quality’ plays the rubber and ‘changes in Panama City’ play the road…read on to understand the sources of becoming frazzled in Panama City, and what you as part of a group of developers in Panama might be able to do good – here and now.
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According to a well-written opinion in Oct. 2007 edition of ‘The Economist’:
“Panama’s real-estate market is in the midst of an unprecedented explosion. A combination of easy credit, foreign demographic trends and, most importantly, quite a bit of speculative momentum appears to be behind the surge in investments in the luxury residential market. The intense level of enthusiasm is raising questions about the sustainability of demand, the likely strain on infrastructure, and the potential risks to some investors and end users should the market suddenly burst.”
What I find interesting is the relatively small number of fixes it would take to make your project in Panama City, Panama the tropical home in paradise your eventual residential investors are dreaming about. If the luxury demand is supported and sustained by Panamanians providing world class services, everyone wins.
Surely there is a way to help prep Panama City, Panama to be the new leader in Central America, in updating infrastructure and learning what it takes to become world class in delivering services and supplies. If in helping to lead more peaceful management of its infrastructure’s unprecedented growth; as a sidebar, it makes Panama a happier and healthier place to live –wouldn’t that be an added benefit? Let’s talk about it, and how doing it…is being good.
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The term infrastructure – came to prominence in the U.S., following publication of America in Ruins, which initiated a public-policy discussion of the America’s ‘infrastructure’ crisis, purported to be caused by decades of inadequate investment and poor maintenance of public works.
Public works infrastructure refers to: urban highways, streets, roads, and bridges; mass transit; airports and airways; water supply and resources; wastewater management; solid-waste treatment and disposal; electric power generation and transmission; telecommunications; and hazardous waste management – according to Wikipedia.
Public works policy discussions are in order in Panama. There are significant issues with the infrastructure in Panama City. It is not fun to live with these issues in this city.
Before all the new residents move into the new buildings and then have to wait six months for phone service, developers can make a new plan with the utility companies now. Mass transportation alternatives can be considered and revenue can be earmarked for solutions to stop gridlock of all the streets and honking of all the horns. Initiate noise abatement planning now and by the time your buyers settle into their new homes, maybe the new residents of Panama City won’t have to wear earplugs every night to be able to sleep well in this high decibel town.
Would Panama City just look good then, or would it really be good? Can you help with the foresight, the relationship management and the operating of the levers of power so that these issues are given the attention they need NOW…?
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A study by Prima Panama identified some 107 building projects under construction in 15 neighborhoods in Panama City as of July, 2007 with a total of 10,980 apartments. The total value of these projects is estimated at US $3.17 billion. These projects will be completed and come to market into 2010. Furthermore, since the Prima study was completed 25 more projects have been announced.
Even if all of the projects don’t come to fruition, this constitutes an enormous increase in population in Panama City very quickly. Calculating with the units selling well, will equal roughly 40,000 new residents in Panama City within the next five years or so, based on current predictions.
Although the city’s infrastructure is administrating services for the current population with limited success, the serious issue is that the Panama City’s infrastructure simply isn’t going to be able to manage all the projected additional residents, when the current populace is straining the systems beyond their abilities. What are you planning to do to help prepare the Panama City infrastructure for your investors? Mmm…is that silence I hear? But on paper the projections look so good…
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Have you noticed the street that your investment property is being built on at the Punta Pacifica shoreline in Panama City? It’s a dead end street lined on both sides with huge multi-story residential properties…most of them under construction now. Tremendous investments in Panama City’s Pacific Oceanfront real estate are represented on that street. They look good.
Please put on your virtual reality helmet and take a look at the future of that little street…in oh, let’s say – five years. In that moment of vision into the future: it is a two lane blacktop road, lined with lots of very valuable automobiles all sitting in rows, one going each direction with their motors running, unable to move more than about five inches at a time, as all the elegantly dressed people in the back seats seethe. Did you happen to think about ease of access to your multi million dollar property, when you noted that street being represented as a dead end on the initial site plans? Or did you just think it looked good?
Hmm…what else was excluded from your overview? Did your considerations include utility set up for your investors? How about deals to keep the investor residents from standing in lines at the immigration office for a couple of hours a month to keep their visa viable? Do you plan to make introductions to Panamanian bankers, who aren’t willing to talk with just anyone; or reliable attorneys to help them to get settled in Panama legally, tax accountants that know how to answer their foreign resident questions? Is your plan good or does it just look good?
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The beautiful Barqueta Beach faces a bright Pacific
coast horizon as the Las Olas’ building team – work
constructing the master planned community on over
2,000 acres of family land in the province of
Chiriqui.
The sand on this beach, called Playa La Barquette in
Spanish, is ancient volcanic soil and so is a serene
light gray color, which is beautifully complemented by
the bright colors the developers have painted onto
their builder’s canvas.
Future plans include canal front living, a golf course
designed by J. Michael Poellot, and an equestrian
center. As the Las Olas Resort features a long term
growth plan, you are a welcome to come to their La
Olas Resort Hotel, to watch as their master plans
become a development. Barquette Beach is the closest
beach to the city of David, and 25 minutes from the
David International Airport, in the Republic of
Panama.
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