Riviera Nayarit News THE GOURMET FESTIVAL REACHES SAN BLAS AND TEPIC

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The Gourmet Festival reaches San Blas and Tepic Chef Beatriz Vazquez, who grew up at San Blas, boldly affirms that: “At Riviera Nayarit, food has always been extraordinary”. Her confidence lays on several concrete facts: the cuisine in this region has been evolving since Colonial times, receiving a great deal of foreign influence, as many [...]

Christie’s Great Estates Newsletter – News for the Network – May 2010

SIGNFICANT SALE: VINEYARD CHÂTEAU A 68-acre vineyard estate in the heart of California’s Santa Ynez Valley sold to a buyer from Asia last month. Vineyard Château was enrolled in the Bespoke Marketing Program and was listed for US$15,800,000. The estate recalls the style, character, charm, and luxury of a 19th-Century château, and has 40 acres [...]

Veteran Sales Agent Alfred Melchiorre: Doing more with less

PVSR - Punta Vista Signature Residences - Punta de Mita luxury beachfront condominiums

Is it possible? Depends on who you ask and where they live. I’ll bet if you ask one of the 1.5 million Americans that live in Mexico that answer would be a resounding, YES! Has it been a dream of yours to walk to the beach everyday? Now a days in the Puerto Vallarta / [...]

Mexico’s big hope: get 5 million U.S. retirees

BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER The Miami Herald AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM MEXICO CITY — Mexico is silently working on proposals aimed at drawing millions of U.S. retirees to this country, which could eventually lead to the most ambitious U.S.-Mexican project since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. President Felipe Calderón is likely to propose the first steps toward [...]

Difference between MLS and Multi DEV

As you may recall this year we combined the Multi DEV and MLS inventories into the same MLS data base which is now available to the public on line at  MLSVallarta.com .  In its home page we define clearly to the public that MLS properties are resale properties with individual title and Multi DEV are [...]

Ojo de Careyes : Artful Traveler Magazine : Mexico

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Ojo de Careyes is an interesting high concept art magazine that captures well the essence and lifestyle of Careyes, a remote upscale enclave that is a polyglot mix of the jet-set. Dressed down haute couture; tripping under the stars with the natives in the tropical jungles of Old Mexico. A series of collectable issues start [...]

Punta Mita, Mexico has the right investors…

John Youden – Vallarta Lifestyles Publishing Group It was recently announced that Bill Gates has increased his share of Strategic Hotels so that he now owns 20% of the company. Strategic is the owner of the Four Seasons hotel in Punta Mita, along with owning two other major development parcels, one of which will eventually have [...]

Mexico and the Failed State Revisited

Stratfor Global Intelligence April 6, 201 By George Friedman STRATFOR argued March 13, 2008, that Mexico was nearing the status of a failed state. A failed state is one in which the central government has lost control over significant areas of the country and the state is unable to function. In revisiting this issue, it [...]

Indonesian Agrees to Buy Bel-Air Mansion for $50 Million

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By JULIET CHUNG and CANDACE JACKSON The Wall Street Journal An Indonesian buyer is in contract to buy a 48,000-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood for around $50 million. If the deal closes, it would set what brokers believe to be a new record for the biggest residential real-estate sale in the U.S. to [...]

Genius Marketing: Modern Family + Four Seasons Resort, Maui, Hawaii

ABC’s hilarious fast paced new sit-com Modern Family is so good we forgive the unabashed product placement for the iPad last month. Game Changer - http://abc.go.com/shows/modern-family/episode-guide/game-changer/409779 They certainly weren’t alone serving Apple some free press. For the season finale, they went much bigger. Incisive tongue-in-cheek writing with the odd and brilliant cast made the Four Seasons, [...]

At Luxury Hotels, the Recovery Is in Full Swing

By PALLAVI GOGOI DailyFinance Just last year, the stigma associated with luxury was so great that some high-end hotels were changing their names. The four-diamond Ballantyne Resort in North Carolina renamed itself the Ballantyne Hotel and Lodge, dropping “resort” from its name. Back then, Congress was attacking financial executives for enjoying visits to resorts even [...]

Sayulita local victorious at the Sayulita Classic surf competition 2010

First off, a big thank you to everyone who made the inaugural Sayulita Longboard & Stand-Up Paddle Classic on April 17th and 18th an incredibly fun and successful event that was not only a blast for the thousands of folks who came out for it but, best of all, helped the local community and coastal [...]

Modern Luxury Magazine features the Four Seasons at the Punta Mita Resort

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1FjGJ866_U[/youtube] Modern Luxury Magazine/Four Seasons Resort Produced by Modern Luxury, Potenza Productions and New Leaf Media

Pacifico and Bahia Golf Courses by Jack Nicklaus at the Four Seasons / St. Regis Punta Mita Resort, Riviera Nayarit

In June 2008, Pacifico Golf Course was named the number one golf course in the world by the readers of Condé Nast Traveler. The Nicklaus-designed course is set amid vistas of white-sand beaches and the surrounding Sierra Madre Mountains. Spread over 81 hectares (200 acres), the course takes full advantage of its seaside location. Eight holes [...]

Heidi Klum and Seal to Return to Mexico for Vows Renewal

Due to the swine flu epidemic last year, the couple could not do their usual wedding vows renewal in Mexico but this year they are planning to make it happen.

Due to the swine flu epidemic last year, the couple could not do their usual wedding vows renewal in Mexico but this year they are planning to make it happen. Heidi Klum and husband Seal are heading back to Mexico to renew their wedding vows next month – a year after the swine flu pandemic kept [...]

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