With the stock market in flux and the price of commodities high, many investors are trying to find other vehicles for building and diversifying their retirement portfolio. One way to diversify individual retirement investments is to use your IRA or 401(k) to invest in real estate. Qualified retirement money can be accessed to include personal real estate ownership, whether it be a second home, investment property or commercial/office space.
With Mexico real estate prices just starting to recover from the global recession, investors can purchase homes at significant discounts. Recent prices …

Mexico mortgage loans will show solid growth in 2010, according Mexico’s largest bank, Grupo Financiero BBVA Bancomer.
The news fuels expectations that expanding Mexico mortgage loans will ignite the Mexico real estate market in 2010.
Speaking at a press conference last month, Ignacio Deschamps, Bancomer’s president and chief executive, said “Credit will grow in a dynamic way at Bancomer in 2010 … we will seek double-digit growth in all of our portfolios”.
Deschamps expects Mexico mortgage and small business loans to grow more than 20% in 2010.
Earlier in 2009 the federal government-backed mortgage …

In the last year and a half, we have seen a dramatic change in the global economy. Not just the stock market, but all critical business and real estate sectors have suffered. In fact, even the richest people in the world have gotten poorer just like the rest of us. The economical leaders have lost 23% of their wealth in just the last 12 months. To emerge in a new economy requires radical shifts of thinking and investing.
The US State Department estimates that there are 385,000 Americans permanently living in …

Confidence in Mexico real estate investment reaches new highs as financial services giant, Prudential, looks to raise $501 million to spend on industrial property and developments in Mexico.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico still has all the charm of a Mexican fishing village yet now has all the amenities necessary to make it one of the finest retirement destinations in the world.

You’ll never find a better time to take advantage of a seriously depressed and overbuilt real estate market in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

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At first blush David Hornick appears to be the most unlikely candidate to be spear-heading a housing development in the state of Oaxaca, one of the southernmost and poorest states in Mexico; his Spanish is sparse to be generous, until earlier this year he had never ventured to this part of the country, he’s never designed or built a home, and he’s lived virtually all his life in Schenectady, New York, leading a more or less typical, middle-class existence.
But Hornick had a vision, born of other life experiences which made …

How the wise real estate investor can win during a budget cut.

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