Most lists of the best places to buy abroad start with beaches and sunsets. The Airdomo 11, the eleven markets named in the new 2027 Destination Homes Report from Airdomo, starts with something more practical: what is actually changing on the ground.
“In every one of these markets, something is changing,” said Stephanie Gilezan, co-founder and CEO of Airdomo, an international real estate marketplace for people buying homes outside their home country. “It could be a new route, a runway, a residency law or a major resort under construction. When that happens, the airlines and the resorts start advertising, and people start asking what their life would look like if they spent part of the year there.”
How The Markets Were Chosen
The report tracks seven areas of change: air access, infrastructure, institutional investment, tax rules, residency rules, cultural attention and attractions. A market made the list when several documented events pointed the same way. Each market page also names one development that had been announced or targeted but had not yet happened when research closed on October 30, 2026.
The evidence comes from airline announcements, government budgets, legislation and hotel commitments rather than sales materials. “Hype has renderings and adjectives,” said Gilezan, who has spent 28 years in real estate. The report identifies changes that may affect demand; it does not forecast returns.
The eleven markets are Zanzibar, Tanzania; Ahangama and Weligama, Sri Lanka; Dominica; Puerto Plata and Cabarete, Dominican Republic; Mérida, Mexico; São Miguel do Gostoso, Brazil; Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates; the Albanian Riviera; the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro; Puglia, Italy; and South Lombok, Indonesia.
Zanzibar, Puglia and Dominica
Zanzibar is Gilezan’s personal pick, partly because the price of entry is lower than most buyers expect. “You don’t have to be a multimillionaire to have the lifestyle there,” she said. A qualifying property investment of at least $100,000 may support a residence-permit application for the buyer and eligible family members, subject to approval. International tourist arrivals reached 917,167 in 2025, up about 25% from the year before, according to the Bank of Tanzania.
Puglia’s change is access. British and northern European buyers have been restoring the region’s trulli and farmhouses for two decades, but for Americans the heel of Italy was always a connection away. That changed when Neos began flying from New York JFK to Bari in June 2025.
Dominica, which Gilezan calls the biggest surprise on the list, never built a resort strip and stayed quiet mostly because it was hard to reach. United began service from Newark in February 2025, and the government’s 2026/27 budget targets completion of a new international airport in the second quarter of 2028. That is a construction milestone, not the date flights begin, and buyers should treat it that way.
What To Weigh
The common thread is government and corporate money going into infrastructure. “When you pull into a country and the message is ‘we are open for business,’ that is what brings all eleven of these together,” Gilezan said. In Ras Al Khaimah, Wynn is targeting a September 2027 opening for Wynn Al Marjan Island, with 1,530 rooms and suites announced. In South Lombok, Hyatt plans to open a hotel at the Samara Lombok development in 2027.
Gilezan says the list is written for a buyer who rarely describes themselves accurately. “It’s for the person who is all three and won’t admit it,” she said, meaning someone who wants a lifestyle home, an investment and a future retirement option in one purchase. In markets with enough tourism, rental income is a possibility, never a guarantee, and each market comes with its own ownership and residency rules.
“Risk you can see and price is different from risk you can’t,” she said. “The real danger is buying blind.”
The report also names four Also Rising markets with documented momentum that did not make the eleven: Taghazout Bay in Morocco, Muscat in Oman, Batumi in Georgia and Pedasí in Panama. Airdomo covers these destinations and others in its Journal.
About Airdomo: Airdomo is the trusted marketplace for buying a home abroad, with developer-certified, live-updated listings across 30 countries and concierge guidance from first search to keys in hand. Co-founded in 2024 by Stephanie Gilezan and Charles Bornheimer, Airdomo connects cross-border buyers, US agents and international developers at airdomo.com.
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