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Our Discovery Weekend in Riviera Maya, Mexico just got a lot more exciting. The residences at Playa Mujeres Resort have been added to the agenda in time for our July 26, 27 28 event and we hope you’ll join us to see them.
This is about as immense a nature reserve and housing tract as you can hope for. Just north of Cancún’s busy and popular tourist hub, it is shaping up to be one of the finer investment and vacations sites in Mexico. And with better than 2700 feet of pure white-sand beachfront, it may be what you’ve been hoping for in a Mayan Riviera retreat.
And Playa Mujeres (click the map to enlarge) has been designated as a Greg Norman Signature Course, which means the legendendary golfer designed it himself. With 36 unforgettable holes of championship Golf, it will almost certainly emerge as one to the top golf destinations in the world. In 2007, it was already awarded one of the ten best golf courses in all of Mexico.
Please let us know what you’re number one reason is for moving to Mexico is this year! We’re still holding out on our free
Livtopia T-Shirt contest for the perfect reason to do it this year.
Just leave your reason in the comments section here.
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July 2nd, 2008
UPDATED: VENUE CHANGED
There’s still time to get yourself registered for our Chicago Discovery Evening. There are a number of great speakers lined up including finance and insurance representatives, and officials from the Mexico Board of Tourism.
If you’ve been to Mexico, and have wondered about what the next step should be - this is a great opportunity to relax and get just the information you need. If you’ve never been to Mexico, but have thought about the trip, there’s no better nor more affordable way to get started. We’ll cover all of Livtopia’s other countries and locations as well.
Discovery Evening
Thursday, June 26, 2008
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
CHANGED: Rumba
351 W. Hubbard Street.
Chicago, Illinois 60610
In Downtown Chicago’s Beautiful River North District, on Hubbard and Orleans.
CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE DIRECTIONS.
There’s more information on the event registration page and a US$15 registration fee will cover 1 or 2 people.
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June 19th, 2008
Folks are so excited to be back from our trip to Costa Rica that we’ve had quite a time keeping up with all the good news and all the photos.
We just put together a bunch on the our new Guanacaste landing page. These should give you a much better idea of what you can expect in a weekend there.
We sometimes give the impression that Guanacaste is just another beach resort, but with rodeos and live dancing entertainments shows - not to mention the truly classy neighborhoods - there’s more than enough to fill up a weekend.
The food and the accommodations were top notch as were the speakers and presenters. But the real star of the weekend was the homes. We tried to put even more of them in this presentation so that you can get a better idea of what to expect when you arrive.
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June 9th, 2008
It’s always fun when we get a new addition to a Discovery Weekend. Flamingo Marina Village is almost hidden, in the overall complex of the Flamingo Marina, it’s just 17 houses.
But these are 17 Luxury, fully-titled houses, nestled between the new Hyatt Hotel and Golf Resort and the Rosewood Hotel.
Just 50 meters from some of Guanacaste’s best beaches and smack in the middle of a thriving resort and vacation community, these are worthy candidates for investment or vacation homes or that can draw a significant monthly income, and provide any homeowner with something better than peace-of-mind.
We’re not only bringing experts on investment and finance this time, but a number of people who are tops in the National Association of REALTORS®, some of them interested in learning, and some who will address the issues most important to those considering the investment climate here and with specific regard to conditions in the USA.
Check out the new Flamingo Marina Village page for more information on this development, or the On-the-Ground Costa Rica page for more on this exciting weekend and those coming up.
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May 25th, 2008
Cuernavaca might be a difficult city to visit for the first time. Thousands of people do though. I wonder about their first impressions.
Thousands of Mexico City residents grow up visiting Cuernavaca like it is second nature, every weekend, every other weekend, or a few times a year. And they won’t think twice about the first impression Cuernavaca gives. Familiar enough, they know that beyond the billboards and the traffic, there are thousands of tranquil gardens.
For the first time visitor, it’s nothing like knowing what’s behind all those walls. Cuernavaca is a private place - a refuge and a retreat. And it does seem to turn it’s back on the people in the streets. At least at first.
But Cuernavaca is world-famous. For gardens in court-yards, for fountains and private places that teem with plant-life in the most stunning year-round climate anywhere.
Visiting again this past week, I was happy to see what is not only a booming economy, new housing creeping up the hills on the outskirts of town but golf courses and recreation areas and more and more places appropriate for vacationers, investors and retirees.
We’ve lined up a few of these to visit during the next “On-the-Ground” Discovery Weekend in Cuernavaca. It’s coming up on July 18, 19 & 20, and it will include at least two new, easy access developments perfect for those who get the idea. But for first-timers it also includes a number of stunning re-sale homes, complete with gardens and quirks and character. As well as a visit to Tepoztlan and houses there. That’s the character that Cuernavaca is famous for. Come and find out why.
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May 23rd, 2008
Dallas Morning News readers got the story last week in this report on the area’s burgeoning resort communities. It’s good weekend reading but it might help start off your week on the right foot, too.
The Riviera Maya has long offered a more laid-back version of Cancún centered on the European-flavored Playa del Carmen, with its small shops, trendy restaurants and bohemian nightlife. But the vacation experience has been tied to the traditional model of boutique hotels or all-inclusive resort complexes with hundreds of rooms crunched together and lines of vacationers in the restaurants and bars during peak hours.
[…] Caribbean in general has come into its own as one of the hottest spots on the globe. And the Riviera Maya has the advantage of being in a hip and culturally significant area.
There’s a lot to tell and there is no question the area is changing every day, both from improved infrastructure, highways and services and especially from an increase in foreign residents. Playa del Carmen has the highest concentration of Italians anywhere in Mexico!
We’re working right now to broaden our Discovery Weekend to include a few more places between Cancún and Playa de Carmen - but finding the right food has not been difficult.
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May 5th, 2008
Our Discovery Weekend Panama schedule is filling out quickly. We’ll be announcing another several weekends later on this week, but for now, you can check the Free Weekend in Panama page here for some of the properties including Hacienda Pacifica in the illustration above, plus the weekend agenda.
San Carlos is a growing and popular community along the Pacific Coast that guests will get to see a lot more of come late May. The list of properties and developments will also be added to a bit later this week.
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April 28th, 2008
The photo is from this USAToday article on Mexico’s newest Pacific coast get-destination. Maybe it’s not the newest, but the Riviera Nayarit is really coming of age at its own pace.
It appears as though you could glance around that outcropping of rock and see old Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta just beyond and down the coast. Of course the coast is a bit bigger than that.
The character of the 20 or so Riviera Nayarit locales varies from bustling to sleepy. The coast begins at Nuevo Vallarta, chockablock with big, all-inclusive resorts 15 minutes north of the Puerto Vallarta airport, and ends at San Blas, whose largest hotel has only 50 rooms. In between lies everything from new ultra-exclusive gated enclaves such as Punta Mita; the ’70s-vintage mass-market resort town of Rincón de Guayabitos; pristine beaches that draw campers, such as Chacala; and fishing villages with growing ex-pat populations, such as Sayulita and San Francisco.
We’re not sure when we’ll offer Riviera Nayarit as a destination in its own right though it’s probably sooner than you might think. Right now our staff in Puerto Vallarta is working on more than a few homes there, in the city itself, and to points both north and south. But our Puerto Vallarta “On-the-Ground” is showing an increasing number of homes, starting in Bucerias and up to the beautiful homes and condos of Nuevo Vallarta to more and more places.
Meanwhile, in various places along the coast, villages whose commerce once revolved around taco stands and auto repair shops have sprouted organic cafes, yoga studios — and hotels for well-heeled travelers who demand such amenities. Nineteen lodgings with more than 4,000 rooms are slated to open by 2011.
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March 7th, 2008
In last week’s newsletter, we announced that throughout the month of June we’re highlighting houses in Cuernavaca, Morelos. Next week, we’ll be announcing exactly why, though the photo above may give you a good idea. You don’t find fixer-uppers like this one every day (click on the photo to enlarge), and we’ll provide details on why it’s a terrific bargain, what more it will cost to finish it, and the considerable amount it will be worth on the day you walk in the door.
From the present owners: The designed is based entirely on construction specifications, lay outs, building materials and techniques used entirely by Spanish builders. Every single item and detail has been crafted by artisans from Morelos and Guerrero, and better than 5 years of labor has already gone into it. With the exception of the roof, the building foundation and main structural beams are steel and reinforced concrete, used to secure it’s engineering design. A masterpiece already, the land lots and layouts were also chosen to secure the best views of the always beautiful Cuernavaca Valley where unique weather conditions make it one of the world’s most perfect climates.
A system of natural cross-air window designs allows the house to always be fresh with the air from the Tzempoala forest. The kitchen and most other parts of the structure are made from stone walls covered with stucco which will allow users to always enjoy a fresh, warm environment, depending of weather conditions. Inside stucco applications and iron-work designs are hand made replicas from colonial buildings. Clay pieces were specially made and brought from Cholula in Puebla.
I’ll update this post when we load up some other pages that will highlight this incredible bargain, and the wonderful life it will certainly lend to the new owners.
But remember, we’re also scheduling Private Real Estate Tours in Cuernavaca and just about everywhere, right through June. There’s never an obligation and you’ll see homes all across Cuernavaca and the surrounding areas including the many small towns that make Morelos one of our favorites.
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March 4th, 2008
As I mentioned in the post below, we are filling out a full schedule for the next several months in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. I got a lot of news about the various incredible and beautiful places we’ll be going.
They are listed on the main Costa Rica Discovery page on Livtopia which has lots of other information on the weekend and the itinerary. But I’ll be expanding on what is unique and special about each of them as the week progresses. Links to those pages will be added to the events page.
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March 1st, 2008
At one point we were going to try to include Mérida in that list too, but alas it is too far to make it as part of our 3 day Mayan Riviera weekend.
As of now, we’ve got great reasons to check out places all around the Greater Cancún area, including Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen and just about everything in between. Quintana Roo appeals to a wildly different crowd of people than our Pacific Coast locations, so this is a great chance to meet people from divergent locations across North America and Europe.
This first free weekend is going to cover quite a bit more geography than we’ve previously covered, so a bus-tour and a boat tour are both part of the fun. And we’ve already listed dates for May and for July if you can’t make the April dates.
Plus we’re expecting some more specialists in the fields of Home-Owner’s Insurance and Mortgages geared not only toward North American’s but toward expectant Europeans as well. There is a rumor that one of the Developer’s is even offering a 4-wheeled incentive, but I will fill you in on that as details emerge.
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February 19th, 2008
I spent most of the evening putting together a new tool. In the onslaught of people signing up for a free weekend or a private tour, client services has had a really tough time sorting them into the just the right place and just the perfect weekend.
The My Ideal Home Questionaire is designed to cut to the real heart of the matter, and it’s not for everyone. It’s basically designed for people who’ve already signed up for one of our free weekends in Puerto Vallarta or in some of the other places we’re putting together right now. And there is no shortage of them.
We are moving ahead with Private Tours in just about any place you could dream of, so we’ve designed the survey to better serve the people who keep coming.
If you’re serious about moving to Mexico, or any of the countries we discuss here, or you’d like Livtopia to get back to you with the absolute perfect property, then take the 7 minutes or so that it will take to answer these 20 questions and you’ll hear from us early in the coming week.
Happy Family Day to all our Friends in Canada!
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