After months of persuasion, I’m delighted to report that resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon has agreed, finally, to return to the role he filled for many years earlier in his career and to begin producing, again, a global property investment service. Lief has been making money buying, selling, flipping, and renting out real estate around the world for more than 17 years. He’s built an extensive portfolio of international property holdings and boasts an impressive track record of success.

All this experience will be brought to bear in Lief’s new Global Property Investor’s Marketwatch, launch date imminent.

Meantime, as Lief refocuses his attention on this beat, I’ve asked if he’d share current thinking, strategies, and opportunities with Live and Invest Overseas readers. Again, I’m delighted to report that he’s agreed to make time for this.

Starting this week, therefore, you’ll hear from Lief regularly. Long term, he’s agreed to write for you every Friday. Right now, however, as we move into this New Year and world markets continue to shake themselves out following last decade’s Golden Age of global property investing, Lief has a great deal of timely intelligence to share. So, this week, you’ll hear from him more often.

How does Lief interpret current key markets worldwide? And where is he planning to place his own money in 2010? I’ll let him speak for himself. Watch this space.

Kathleen Peddicord www.liveandinvestoverseas.com