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French Châteaus: How Château Investors Use French Tax Loopholes to Win Big
You could be depreciating drywall in Ohio. Or you could be sipping Sancerre in a 400-year-old estate while the French state pays for your new copper roof. Monument Historique tax breaks aren’t a rumor. They’re the cheat code for capital that wants ROI and rococo.

Mitt Chen
Aug 15, 20252 min read


Retreat Economics: Monetizing the ‘Work-from-Anywhere’ Obsession
Remote work killed the office lease. It also created the most lucrative real estate arbitrage since ski-in/ski-out.”

Mitt Chen
Aug 15, 20253 min read


Manila Megaprojects: Are They Built for Locals or Global Investors?
Manila is in the middle of a $50B urban facelift — glass towers, skybridges, artificial islands, and malls big enough to have their own weather reports.

Mitt Chen
Aug 13, 20253 min read


Thailand: Bangkok Luxury Condo Glut vs Phuket Villa Shortage
A client once bought three Bangkok penthouses in 2021. He now rents them out to TikTokers for less than his parking garage makes in Lisbon.

Mitt Chen
Aug 12, 20254 min read


Trash-to-Yield: How Modular Shacks Are Beating Luxury Apartments
A pension CIO once told me their ‘impact mandate’ included buying a warehouse full of used IKEA furniture. That fund did 11% IRR — outperforming their urban office exposure by 300 bps.

Mitt Chen
Aug 11, 20254 min read


City vs City Series: Lisbon vs. Bali: The Digital Nomad Smackdown No One’s Ready For
He moved to Bali to find purpose. He left with a parasitic infection and a $400 tax bill." Meanwhile, in Lisbon? They're giving out 10-year tax holidays like it's Nando's sauce samples.

Mitt Chen
Aug 10, 20252 min read


Global Scams: How Rich Tourists Get Scammed in Paris Every Summer
You paid $10K for that ‘exclusive wine tasting’? That was tap water.

Mitt Chen
Aug 9, 20254 min read


French Châteaus: The Secret Network Flipping Châteaus on YouTube for Millions
They bought a crumbling estate, filmed the leaks, and made $2M on ad revenue.

Mitt Chen
Aug 8, 20253 min read


Rising Sovereign Risk and Debt Exposure in Real Asset Funds
Allocators are hunting real yield in real assets. But they’re ignoring a not-so-sexy threat: Sovereign risk is back.

Mitt Chen
Aug 8, 20252 min read


Tech Giants as Landlords: Big Tech’s Global CRE Footprint Expansion
When Google starts buying warehouses in Warsaw, and Apple’s building in Jakarta… you’re not leasing space—you’re watching empire-building in real time.

Mitt Chen
Aug 7, 20253 min read


Migration Sparks Housing Shortages
From Lisbon villas to Austin duplexes, from Melbourne hotels to Dubai tax zones, policy is shaping yield faster than interest rates ever could.

Mitt Chen
Aug 6, 20253 min read


Who’s Buying China Debt?
China’s real estate developers didn’t just wobble — they faceplanted into global headlines. Country Garden, Evergrande, Vanke — the darlings of China’s boom cycle are now case studies in capital chaos.

Mitt Chen
Aug 5, 20253 min read


Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM): Rise and Fall of Leverage
If you thought your spreadsheet worked everywhere—welcome to LTCM and the not-so-hidden black swan.

Mitt Chen
Aug 4, 20253 min read


City vs City Series: Tokyo vs. Dubai: The Billionaire Brawl for the Future
Dubai has a ski slope in the desert and Tokyo has toilets that open with a bow. One's for flexing, the other's for functioning. But which one will actually win the next wave of global capital?

Mitt Chen
Aug 3, 20252 min read


Global Scams: The $500K Instagram Scam You’ve Never Heard Of
There’s a new fund model on the block – it doesn’t need an LP agreement, a pitch deck, or even real yield. Just 400K followers, a few fake wire screenshots, and one rented G-Wagon.

Mitt Chen
Aug 2, 20254 min read


French Châteaus: Castles vs S&P500
$300K gets you 18 bedrooms, tax perks, and an existential renovation crisis. Or, y'know, a closet in Manhattan.

Mitt Chen
Aug 1, 20252 min read


Solo Women Investors Go Global
The Rise of Solo Female Investors in Global Capitals (and Why They’re Playing Smarter Than You)

Mitt Chen
Aug 1, 20254 min read


French Riviera vs. Bordeaux
Is the Côte d’Azur losing its crown—or is Bordeaux simply aging like its wine?

Mitt Chen
Jul 31, 20253 min read


Energy Transition Infrastructure
With trillions flowing into the green economy, a seismic question is shaking capital allocators from Singapore to São Paulo

Mitt Chen
Jul 30, 20254 min read


The Château Lifestyle
Is buying a château in France just an Instagram daydream—or a serious wealth preservation play?

Mitt Chen
Jul 29, 20253 min read
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