Puerto Penasco, also known as Rocky Point, will be the site of a new massive port that will accommodate cruise ships and give a boost to tourism to the area. According to Epifanio Salido Pavlovich, the director of the Sonora Office of Tourism, the completed port could offer 200 cruises a year from the Puerto [...]

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 [...]

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B.
Oaxaca has two main advantages over other southern destinations for snowbirds, that is, those whose permanent residences are in the mid to northern United States or in Canada, and enjoy wintering in a warm climate. First, you can explore one of the most culturally rich regions in Latin America, and then if the [...]

Consult the National Agrarian Registry (Registro Agrario Nacional, or RAN) to check if the property is on Ejido land.
Ejido land is land that has been set aside by the Mexican government for community farmers and can not be owned unless it goes through a complicated process where it is converted to private land. However [...]

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 [...]

Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B.
An examination of tourist reviews of quality, reputable bed and breakfast accommodations in Oaxaca, reveals occasional commentaries relating to noise, insects, smells and sanitation.
Travelers to a southern, Third World country, who want at least partial immersion into the host society as an element of their total vacation, must recognize that their [...]

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 [...]

Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B.
Whether it’s getting your car license plates, going to the bank or to pay your phone bill, attending at IMSS to see a doctor through the federal health insurance plan, or simply trying to negotiate your way through traffic, you can’t help but be affected by the bureaucratic inefficiencies in Oaxaca.
Ten times [...]