7 Cheap Panama Towns — And the Problems Nobody Mentions

🧮 FREE CALCULATOR: Where can YOU afford to retire? Enter your Social Security and see 8 countries → https://retirement-atlas.netlify.app 📋 FREE: The 12-Month Moving Abroad Checklist → https://retirementatlas.kit.com A two-bedroom house in the mountains of western Panama is listed for fifteen thousand dollars, and one word in the listing's title matters more than the price. Seven real Panama towns, seven real listings from $100,000 down to $15,000, each with the price, the house size, the land, who's selling it, the yearly property tax, and the problem the listing leaves out. For every town we say exactly what to check before you pay anyone a dollar. 📌 All 7 listing links and the news sources used in this video are in the pinned first comment. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 The $15,000 House and One Word 0:30 Seven Towns, Seven Real Listings 1:21 Why Panama Listings Need Checking 2:09 Panama Property Tax in One Minute 2:46 7. Volcán, Chiriquí - $100,000 5:04 6. Capira, Panamá Oeste - $100,000 7:25 5. Parita, Herrera - $85,000 9:59 4. Atalaya, Veraguas - $85,000 12:06 3. Boquerón, Chiriquí - $76,000 13:57 2. La Villa de Los Santos - $69,500 16:00 1. Monte Lirio, Renacimiento - $15,000 18:46 The Problem in Four of Seven Towns ⚠️ Disclaimer: This video is for general informational purposes only and is not legal, financial, tax or real estate advice. Listings, prices, title status, water supply and tax rules change and vary by property. Always verify with a licensed Panamanian property lawyer before sending money. Where the actual house is shown, the photos come from its listing; other footage is illustrative. Subscribe to Retirement Atlas - every week we check real listings in another country and tell you what the relocation videos leave out. Out of the rain, the wells, the water tanks, the pilgrims, the bank sale, the fair and the border, which problem would actually stop you from buying? And if there's a Panama town you want checked the same way, put it in the comments. --- PHOTO & VIDEO CREDITS House photos: the listings in the pinned comment (encuentra24.com). Wikimedia Commons: Volcán Barú desde Volcán - Rkool007 - CC BY-SA 3.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Caudaloso Río La Villa - Ispo - CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Río La Villa (satellite) - NASA - Public domain Chitré, Herrera - eric molina - CC BY 2.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Rio Sereno - Rictor Norton & David Allen - CC BY 2.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Río Chiriquí Viejo bridge - William Jexpire - CC BY 4.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Cordillera de Talamanca - Inforiosereno - CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Talamanca range - EinfachFrankfurt1955 - CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Video clips: Pexels (Hugo Polo, Mody Agyao Jr., Rufaro Makaya, Davis Sánchez, Miguel Á. Padriñán, Asad Ansari, Ron Lach, Zulfugar Karimov, Jyoti Pur, Juan Castelblanco, Tom Fisk, Nui MALAMA). Maps: © OpenStreetMap contributors.