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New Hotel Data Puts Bocas del Toro Ahead of Panama City in Occupancy New tourism data has placed Bocas del Toro ahead of Panama City in average hotel occupancy, offering a clearer view of lodging demand outside Panama's capital. According to an August 4 report from Infobae, PROMTUR Panama expand...
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Panama's proposed tax relief for buyers of newly built homes has become linked to a broader debate over how the country taxes digital transactions, including services and purchases made through platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Uber and Airbnb. On August 19, the National Assembly's Economy and...
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Something unusual is happening in Canada. An estimated 120,640 people emigrated from Canada in 2025, according to Statistics Canada. In the first quarter of 2026 alone, another 30,092 people left, the highest first-quarter figure in the available data. That does not mean Canadians are sudden...
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Nearly 2,000 Retirees a Year Are Choosing Panama's Pensionado Visa Panama's Pensionado Visa is no longer a niche residency program used by a small number of foreign retirees. In 2025, Panama approved 1,929 Jubilado and Pensionado residencies, according to the National Immigration Service. That w...
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Panama's New Railway: Why Panama Oeste May Feel the Impact First Panama's proposed Panama-David-Frontera railway is one of the country's biggest infrastructure projects in decades. But despite the name, David and Chiriqui are not where the first effects are expected to be felt. The first phase...
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Pedasi vs. Playa Venao: 30 Minutes Apart, Two Very Different Real Estate Markets Pedasi and Playa Venao are separated by roughly a 30-minute drive, but for property buyers, the more important difference is between the types of real estate markets they have become. Both sit along Panama's Azuero P...
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Last updated: August 2026 Foreign buyers can qualify for a mortgage in Panama, but the process differs from applying for a home loan in many other countries. Residency status, income source, credit history, available funds, and the selected property can all influence the lender’s decision. T...
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Panama has introduced a new regulatory framework for banks that open accounts or provide financial services through digital and remote channels. The change could eventually make it easier for some expats to begin the banking process before arriving in the country, but it does not guarantee that ev...
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Tocumen International Airport handled close to 21 million passengers in 2025, a 9% jump from the year before, and 2026 is already tracking past 22 million. Airport management calls Tocumen the Hub of the Americas, and its stated goal is 30 million passengers a year by 2030. To get there, two maj...
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Panama's official construction and property statistics tell a more interesting story than a single growth number could. In 2025, the market did not simply rise or fall, it split. Houses and land pulled the overall numbers down while apartments quietly kept climbing. Now, three months into 2026, ...
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Panama's Ministry of Public Works (MOP) has laid out a B/.1,220 million (roughly $1.2 billion) road investment plan for 2026, spread across 35 projects nationwide. Officials expect it to generate 10,000 direct jobs and 30,000 indirect ones, and that figure does not even include the cou...
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On July 23, at the inauguration of a renovated stadium in Colón, President José Raúl Mulino announced his government's next major economic play: a new tourism incentives law aimed at pulling large-scale private investment into parts of Panama that tourism has mostly passed by. The b...
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