@Dean Letfus Being an Australian citizen, knowing New Zealand very well and having friends who have invested there, I respectfully totally disagree with Dean's view of the New Zealand market.

They give the same terms as US citizens generally as they use your CAN credit score. 

You will either need a solid balance sheet and impeccable bank relationships or, ideally, work with an American citizen/partner with experience who can facilitate you on the lending side - agency or conventional.

Myself, Melvyn Mangion, live on the island of Malta where it is within the culture of Maltese citizens to purchase their property.

My family has owned property there since the early 2000’s, some of my close family members have become full time residents/ CR citizens during that time and what we’ve seen over and over again during the last 20+ years is that most US citizens leave after a few years.

There is Federal insurance (Fair Plan in CA) Federal National, Universal and Citizens are your only choices in Florida.I'm actively lobbying through MBA.

Really it helps validate my position going forward which is to only look at a) for buy-and-hold, true partnership JVs where the on ground partner has skin in the game, b) notes (and I buy your point on lack of leverage being a problem...but I'm reading up on hypothecation...yes I'm foreign-based but still US citizen so I don't believe any unique tax issues for me), c) fix-and-flip partnerships.

I am a Canadian citizen and my wife is a US citizen. 

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There are still insurance options obviously and the cheapest is typically the state discounted one citizens.