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New figures show home prices in major U.S. cities dropped this past year to what they were in the summer of 2004. That news has developers luring Americans across the border to buy and some of the hottest properties are along Mexico’s Pacific Coast. It’s known as a “fly and buy”. The Riviera Nayarit, just [...]

  Festival de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe: This annual celebration leads up to Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, celebrated throughout Mexico on December 12. The Virgin of Guadalupe is the patron saint of Mexico, and is also identified with the Aztec earth goddess and mother of humankind. The basilica just outside of Mexico City features the largest [...]

  “At the end of the day, I want to be sitting on my patio with a margarita in my hand watching the sun dive into the ocean,” Stuart McGregor says as he surveys his new vacation home. He’s not surprised to have a luxury vacation property — after all, he worked for years in [...]

At the beginning of 2007, we added up how many new properties were being held by developers and this totaled 5,600 units. We asked how many of those were sold, sold in either 2006 or previous years. It was reported that 2,160 were defined as sold or no longer available for sale, leaving an ending [...]

A project for one of our staff members was to identify all of the real estate projects currently in development in and around Puerto Vallarta, find out how many units the project consists of and how many are currently available for sale. I posted earlier some of our findings. We also gathered information regarding the price ranges [...]

I received a comment recently from someone who felt that market prices would fall here by up to 40 or 50%. Let me say that that just isn’t going to happen. And here’s three good reasons why.   Vallarta is primarily a second-home market. The fall-out in the USA is with first-time, first-home buyers primarily, [...]

New York: As the consequences of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in the United States spread through global markets, will one of the most positive trends in Latin America – the expansion of local credit markets, which has dramatically expanded access to homeownership throughout the region, be jeopardised? Big multinational banks and mortgage lenders have moved [...]

Redefine Leisure Travel. With today’s evolving vacation home market, consumers are faced with an increasingly diverse marketplace and options in leisure travel, according to the American Resort Development Association (ARDA). To select the vacation home best suited to their lifestyle needs and vacation dreams, consumers must educate themselves about the market terminology and ownership options, [...]

It is a common misconception that foreigners cannot own real estate in Mexico, but the reality is that they can. It is perfectly legal for a foreigner or foreign corporation to acquire any type of real estate, holding the property as a direct owner, with the exception of properties located in the Restricted Zone. The [...]

During the past 15 years, International Living magazine has calculated its Annual Global Retirement Index; a resource intended to assist retirees and future retirees in evaluating and comparing the world’s most popular retirement destinations. It is based on a number of criteria, giving various weights to each, depending on its importance to retirees. Listed below [...]

Tools Available to Become Familiar with the Vallarta Real Estate Market If you are reading this, chances are that you have a vested interest in real estate in the Vallarta region. You are most likely a buyer or a seller (or both) or a professional involved in the industry, and you need sources of clear [...]

The time has come. Whether after one brief trip or following years of visiting Costa Vallarta, you have decided that you want to purchase your very own piece of paradise on the beach. Back home, choosing a real estate professional to help in the process is fairly straightforward. You probably have someone you have already [...]

When purchasing a property one of the most important issues to address for both a buyer and seller is how and under what conditions the funds will be safely transferred. In an international transaction this issue is even more important as it is often complicated, as both the purchaser and seller may not be familiar [...]

Action begins Jan. 31 at Marina del Rey. MARINA DEL REY — Del Rey Yacht Club is navigating uncharted waters in 2009 with its 20th biennial competition to Puerto Vallarta. PV09 is no longer just an “International Yacht Race,” but will become a series of four separate races in succession between Southern California and the [...]

When you decide to buy a property you must be certain that after the sale has been completed you will be the true owner of the property. You need to be confident that no liens, encumbrances or other impediments will prevent your free use and enjoyment of the property. Guaranty for the property owner The [...]

Over the years as Puerto Vallarta has grown and a number of communities and developments have become established both to the north and south of its downtown borders, it has become more and more apparent that there needs to be names for the regions in which the communities are situated. Costa Vallarta This is how [...]

15 Good Reasons to by Real Estate in PV While Los Cabos and Cancun seem to always be in the news as appealing Mexican destinations, Puerto Vallarta has been keeping a low profile in the background. And while the spotlight’s on them, it is actually Puerto Vallarta that has created this country’s largest resort real [...]

  The procedure for a real estate closing for foreigners in Mexico is different than the process north of the border. This checklist helps demystify the process of buying property and creating a bank trust in Mexico through a cash sale, still the most common type of transaction. 1.   Buyer and Seller agree to a purchase [...]

  Investing in Real Estate Overseas By Alexis Glick Gary Garrabrant, the CEO and co-founder of Equity International joined me for an exclusive two part interview the other day. If the name is not familiar, look him up. He is Sam Zell’s partner and has created a private equity empire that invests in international real [...]

For the past five years, we have prepared a list of trends we perceived to be taking place in the Vallarta real estate market. Information is gathered through interviews with real estate agents and developers, then compiled and reviewed for trends. Each year, interestingly enough, brings new trends, which perhaps shouldn’t be surprising considering the [...]

A home is usually your largest single investment. When you purchase a home, you purchase homeowner’s or hazard insurance to protect against loss from fire, theft or wind damage. Title insurance protects against hidden title hazards that may threaten your financial investment in your home. You see, when purchasing a home, you are really purchasing [...]

Like a perfect storm, all the conditions are in place for a major shift in Costa Vallarta’s climate. But we’re not talking weather or bad news, rather, a “good” perfect storm. New leaders at federal, state and municipal levels with a renewed commitment to working together are looking at tourism, a major growth industry in [...]

When most people think of real estate as an industry, it brings up images of tracts of single family homes, large commercial and condominium towers and shopping malls. But are there benefits other than providing housing, office space and shopping opportunities? If this is all that is taken into consideration, the real estate industry can [...]

The Third Annual Vallarta Lifestyles’ Real Estate Conference provides valuable information on Vallarta’s real estate market to real estate industry professionals. The theme of this conference will be on the value real estate gives to the region and how we can better promote these benefits and improve our image to the local market and community. [...]

AFTER the 1994 peso crash, the risk of Mexico’s difficulties spilling over into America was considered so great that the Clinton administration helped bail out its southern neighbour. In the first quarter of 2008, the boot was on the other foot, though the scale was entirely different. Now it was the turn of Banamex, one [...]

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Strollers passing along the river that flows through downtown here were startled last week to encounter a pair of “Towel Swans” gliding atop the murky water. Crafted out of plastic foam by Chilean artist Cristián Silva, they resembled the decorative birds sculpted by chambermaids to be left on tourists’ hotel beds, [...]