ST. REGIS HOTELS & RESORTS CONTINUES TO EXPAND GLOBALLY WITH SECOND NEW PROPERTY IN LATIN AMERICA WHITE PLAINS, NY – December 19, 2005 – Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) announced today a joint venture agreement to build a new St. Regis Resort in Punta Mita, Mexico. Scheduled to open in late 2007, the [...]

Chicago, IL (OPENPRESS) July 29, 2006 — Exceeding US$11.6 billion, private investment in Mexico’s tourism sector has already surpassed federal goals for the 2001 to 2006 period by 29 percent, reports Sectur in its latest comprehensive study on the subject. Domestic and foreign private investment reached the original US$9 billion goal in June 2005, after [...]

Friday, July 28, 2006 Today’s owners of million-dollar homes are typically younger baby boomers who work for a corporation, maintain diversified investment portfolios, and have household income of less than $500,000. Their homes can include such amenities as entertainment rooms, designer kitchens and wine cellars, according to the 2006 Coldwell Banker Previews International Luxury Survey. [...]

SPECIAL REPORT June 12, 2006 Real Estate: Latin Boom Latin America’s real estate sector is booming, thanks in large part to a growing number of US retirees buying homes. Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica are leading the way, but also Argentina is seeing a boom. BY JOACHIM BAMRUD Donald Trump is busy these days. Apart [...]

Second-Home Buyers Head South As the price of beachfront property in the United States escalates, more people are looking south of the border for vacation homes RISMEDIA, July 13, 2006-(KRT)- As the price of beachfront property in theUnited States escalates, more people are looking south of the border for vacation homes. That has created big [...]

Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Luxury Network Expanding in More Than 30 Countries around the World RISMEDIA, July 20, 2006-Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates, Inc. announced the Sotheby’s International Realty R network is now operating in 18 nations and has executed master franchise agreements to expand into 16 additional countries and territories. Since September 2004, more than 100 [...]

Smart buyers know that resort real estate is very big in the United States right now, but many are wondering if sales have peaked in the United States. Because many are wondering how much more the United States can up the ante on the resort real estate, some buyers are looking outside of the United [...]

Pittman: Mexico set for housing boom, real estate appraiser predicts DAVID PITTMAN Tucson Citizen Mexico in 2006 is similar to the United States in 1940, a country set toembark on a post-depression housing boom. That is the view of Bruce D. Greenberg, a real estate appraiser active in the United States and Mexico. Greenberg believes [...]

Mexico’s elections A nation awaits Jul 13th 2006 MEXICO CITY From The Economist print edition With court challenges under way, a clear winner looks unlikely before September AP ON JULY 12th demonstrations in support of Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept Mexico. But they were not what the presidential candidate of the centre-left Party of the [...]

Americans looking for land deals migrate to Mexican coast 03:34 PM CDT on Thursday, June 15, 2006 By Angela Kocherga / KVUE News Mexico used to ban foreigners from owning oceanfront property. Now, Americans can buy homes right on the beach, and that’s sparked a boom in once remote regions like Nayarit which sits along [...]

Mexico becoming more than a spring break destinationStrong work force, proximity allow neighbor to compete with Asia By Ryan Johnson Like a large chunk of students at the UA, I went to Mexico over springbreak. I even went to a tequila factory. But I’m pretty sure I came away with an extremely different impression ofthe [...]

Pacific Hamlet could become Mexico’s next hot stop By Alfredo Corchado SAN FRANCISCO, Mexico – Maybe it was the impossibly bright orange sunsetover the Pacific Ocean, the sound of waves crashing onto the shore, brieflydisturbing the peace and the silence around us. Or it may have been the eclectic crowd – old hippies, yuppies and [...]

Monday, July 3, 2006 Mexico Plans Controls for the Sea of Cortez and its Bordering Land Areas By Barnard R. Thompson The Mexican Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), onJune 21, 2006 published a notice in the Official Daily (Diario Oficial de laFederación) of not just national but too international interest andimportance. Notice that [...]

Mankarios Partnership To Spearhead New Luxury Projects7/6/2006By Glenn Haussman DALLAS – Hot on the heels of its successful gig managing more than $1.5 billion in assets with Ty Warner Hotels & Resorts, The Mankarios Partnership is moving into the next phase of its evolution. The company, with its expertise in luxury hotel development, asset management [...]

Fadesa invests 27 mln eur in land for in planned Mexican tourist resort MADRID (AFX) – Fadesa Inmobiliaria SA said it has invested 27 mln eur to acquire four stretches of land in Nayarit, on the Mexican Pacific coast, to develop a tourist resort. In a statement, Fadesa said it plans to build a 640-room [...]

A Mexican trendsetterBy Andréa R. VaucherInternational Herald TribuneFRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2005 COSTA CAREYES, Mexico Approach Costa Careyes from the sea, and the vibrant colors of the houses pop out at you. The indigos and ochres echo the plumage of the exotic birds that inhabit this jungle paradise; the purples and vermilions are as dazzling as [...]