By Richard Katzman and Jane Rogers
Monday, 21st April 2008
Foreign investment in Mexican real estate is on the rise and many favorable factors conspire to keep this trend moving forward.
 
Investors and developers are increasingly looking to Mexico as a land of opportunity. While Mexico’s economy is closely tied to that of the United States and is [...]

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Tropicasa
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NAR Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey

In spite of a decline in the total vacation and investment home sales, second-home sales accounted for 33% of transactions in 2007. Sales of vacation properties fell 30.6% to 740,000 in 2007 compared to the prior year which boasted a record 1.07 million, while investment-home sales fell 18.1% to [...]

Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Tropicasa
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Vallarta received more than 900,000 passenger through air travel in the first three months. 31,000 MORE FOREIGNERS ARRIVED THIS WINTER…The pall of the economic recession in the United States did not prevent the growth of Northamerican tourism to Vallarta during the winter season that recently concluded.  Data from the Pacific Airport Group (GAP) shows that during [...]

Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Tropicasa
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By William Kemble-Diaz
LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Real estate mogul Sam Zell sees few opportunities in U.S and European property markets but says undersupplied residential markets in Asia and Latin America remain moneyspinners for adventurous housebuilders.
“Generally speaking, we do not see … any significant opportunities in the developed world,” Zell told a property conference on [...]

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Tropicasa
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IVA is a value-added tax that is placed on certain goods and services in Mexico (not unlike the VAT tax in Europe).    Just as foreign visitors can request a reimbursement of these taxes prior to leaving the EU countries, beginning in June the first phase of the IVA reimbursement plan will go into effect in certain [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Tropicasa
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