Dubbed the “New Green Paradise” by some, the Riviera Maya is fast becoming the discerning golfer’s favorite location in Mexico. A plethora of world-class courses and country clubs have sprung up in the last decade and a good number more will open their fairways soon.
The first ever PGA tournament was held on the Caribbean coast [...]

Less than an hour north of the Mexican border with Belize, lies the town and lagoon known as Bacalar. Previously, the area was regarded exclusively as an adventure tourism destination, but now Bacalar is a significant part of Costa Maya, an area of special recent interest, infrastructure growth and real estate development south of better-known [...]

Estrella Rodriguez is a 27-year veteran of the the Cancun and Riviera Maya real estate industry. She is an award-winning AMPI (Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals)-certified broker with Prince y Asociados in Cancun. She took a few moments out of her hectic day to answer a few questions for www.mexicorealestateinvestment.org.
In your opinion, what is [...]

Times are tough now-a-days – stock markets are in frenzy, housing markets are unpredictable, the U.S. dollar is weakened, and an overall lack of consumer confidence continues to arise even with the latest U.S. government and worldwide intervention in motion.
The first question asked by most is how we got in this mess. This can [...]

President Calderón and the National Trust for Tourism Development, recently announced a new $5 billion peso project to create the next big tourist destination in Mexico in southern Sinaloa. The proposed mega-project which is provisionally called the Pacific Coast Integrally Planned Center, is on the Pacific coast, 80 miles south of Mazatlan, and includes 7.5 [...]

Real estate not as volitile as stocks
The DOW had fell by 49% at one point, so even if you were well diversified in stocks, you could have lost a tragic amount of your savings through no fault of your own. On the other hand it is extremely rare for real estate prices to fall and [...]

Thomas is an active real estate Broker in Quintana Roo, Mexico which includes such areas as Cancun, Riviera Maya, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Cozumel and other regional areas.  Thomas is a native of Indiana, a Purdue University graduate, entrepreneur, and has been living in Mexico since 1995.
Today we welcome Thomas Lloyd, who owns www.TOPmexicorealestate.com , a new web page and blog of tips & [...]

A year over year decline in housing prices in the US are very rare, but the failure of financial giants like Lehman and Washington Mutual mean it will probably be a while before housing prices start recovering. Smart Money editor Jack Hough told the Wall Street Journal This Morning Podcast on September 30th that “I [...]

Puerto Vallarta has grown from a quiet little fishing village to one of the fastest growing real estate markets in Mexico. Here are our top ten facts about this investment hotspot.
1. Sales of resort real estate in Puerto Vallarta has increased from $50 million in 2000 to $500 million in 2007 (NuWire).
2. Vallarta is home [...]

One of the negatives in investing in financial assets is that they can lose all their value very quickly when the environment turns sour. A lot of people are losing a lot of paper wealth as once invincible financial institutions are falling like dominoes and they are realizing that financial assets are not as robust [...]