Parade of Homes

Tropicasa Realty has launched the Parade of Homes program.
Every Saturday from 10am to 2pm Tropicasa will have Open Houses for the public and the Real Estate Agencies in the AMPI community.
While there are Open Houses in Puerto Vallarta regularly, they are normally held for brokers only.
There is an ongoing marketing campaign in local publications, radio and electronic media as well but you can check the properties that will be participating here

Mexico tourism sees increase despite drug violence

An article featured in Businessweek.com says that Puerto Vallarta will be named one of the top destinations by Orbitz travel website as holiday travel to Mexico is up from a year ago as vacationers cash in on low-cost tropical holidays.
Read the article here

Puerto Vallarta Luxury on a Budget

Kathleen Peddicore of Live and Invest Overseas Publishing Group has published her list of The World's Top Retirements Havens for 2011 and Puerto Vallarta made it to the top of the list of best place to retire for "Luxury on a Budget"

Tourism in Mexico is coming back

An article published in http://www.mexicorealestateinvestment.org/ states that tourism in Mexico has increased already in 2010.
Here is the article:
http://www.mexicorealestateinvestment.org/mexico-tourism-is-making-a-comeback/001261

Two good articles if you are considering to invest in real estate in Puerto Vallarta

Here are two articles that support the idea that buying real estate in Puerto Vallarta is a good investment:
This first article is by a journalist from New York that spends a lot of time in Puerto Vallarta and gives us an insight of what is really like living here versus what the media makes it look like to be.
http://www.pvrpv.com/blog/safety-in-mexico-one-journalist%E2%80%99s-view-by-linda-ellerbee/

This second article is about a company that has in the past proven that know when it is time to invest in the real estate market and when it is time to get out.
They are wanting to come back to Mexico after selling their last investment here in 2008.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-24/billionaire-zell-in-talks-to-invest-in-mexican-colombian-property-firms.html

Puerto Vallarta is probably the best option because of it is easily reachable from the US and Canada (direct flight availability), the good weather we have, affordable living, great medical care services but the best thing is probably the people...even if I say so myself.

AARP The Magazine Travels the Globe to Reveal the Top 5 Best Places to Retire Abroad

Are you looking for a great place to retire?
See what the experts recommend
http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/press-center/info-07-2010/best_places_retire_abroad.html

Market Stability

At times I have written about the state of the Real Estate Market in Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit.

Today I received an e-mail with a list of properties in different parts of our country that are being auctioned by banks or other entities.

The thing that strikes me the most is that there are none in Puerto Vallarta nor the Riviera Nayarit.

While there have been very few fire sales and auctions in our area this still speaks highly of how stable our Real Estate Market is over here.

If anybody is interested in this list please let me and I will e-mail it to you.