If you are looking at overseas investment properties you want the best possible return on your money and this means choosing the country you invest in carefully.

There is one golden rule and it's used in every other form of investment market to make money and should be used as the first rule when buying overseas investment property.

Do it and you will increase the odds of making money on your investment.

Let's define the rule and examine it in more detail.

Buy a Trend In Motion

What do we mean by this in terms of overseas investment property?

Quite simply it means buy a market that has a track record of growth in property prices and the trend is well supported by investment.

Buying a market with potential

For example, many people buy overseas investment properties in markets that may take off (property is at its cheapest and upside at its highest) there are new ones all the time Nicaragua, Romania etc But upside is only at its highest if they do take off and most don't!

By all means be a pioneer if you want the highest rewards in theory but that's theory not practice. Sure, pioneers made money but most got killed by arrows.

Buying a market on potential alone and your view that it may go up is a mugs game and in most cases will lead to losses.

Buying an established market

If you buy an established market you will have missed the initial rise in property prices but that doesn't mean there won't be more to come, chances are there will!

Fact is once a market takes off it sucks in money by its very nature as investors have confidence to invest.

What you are looking for in buying overseas investment property is low downside risk and lots of upside. An established market that has just taken off will give you that.

If you do the above your risk will be low and your rewards will be high.

There are several so called well established markets around the world that will return you 100% per annum with low downside risk.

Investing in overseas property can yield big returns without huge risks and you don't need to be a pioneer to make them.

For example Costa Rica has been booming for 10 years but many investors are still doubling or tripling their money in just a year or two! so play best risk to reward to make money on overseas investment property.