Archive for May 16th, 2008

You want to buy property in Puerto Vallarta and build a luxury home but you don’t know where to start. So many properties are for sale! How can you tell which ones will make the best investments, and once you buy, how can you improve the value of your property? Can you even find the […]

Several important industries in Mexico are government-run monopolies. One such monopoly controls the production, distribution and export of oil. Mexico has large oil reserves and sends much of its oil to the United States. The oil industry generates a lot of money for the economy each year, but policymakers here understand that the oil industry […]

American workers who are planning for their retirements don’t have much to be cheerful about these days. With heavy losses in the stock market, steep declines in real estate values in the US, tightening credit, and uncertainty in the employment outlook, many soon-to-be retirees are thinking hard about their retirement investments and whether their retirement […]

Until recently, most US banks would not issue mortgage loans for the purpose of buying land in Mexico. Mexican property ownership laws were clear and prohibited land ownership in many circumstances. With the changes in property laws in Mexico, a trustworthy mechanism was established for land ownership by non-Mexican nationals and some US and Mexican […]

Mexican land purchases have long suffered a reputation of being riddled with fraud. The Mexican Constitution regulates the ownership of land in the country by non-citizens. Specifically, ownership of land that is within 50 km of a coastline or 100 km of a national border is restricted. In 1993, however, the Federal government eased […]