Thomas L. Lloyd, mazatlan Broker By Thomas L. Lloyd
2012-08-07

If you are considering beginning your search for Mexico real estate online, you need to know two things.  It’s much harder than you think - if you don’t know where to look; it’s much easier than you think if you do know where to look.  The following are some tip on places where you can look.

Mexico Real Estate User Accounts – First of all, it is worth mentioning that some online real estate services for Mexico offer user accounts that encompass all of the tools mentioned below; they allow buyers to create a user name, save their preferences and come back to any items of interest.  This kind of account can be one of the most important tools to search online.

Blogs & Articles – There are excellent Mexico real estate blogs available on the web with daily updates about interesting properties, spotlight communities, new developments, discounts, tips on searching and buying, news about activities, restaurants, events, etc. and information about local and national economy that is relevant to owners and soon-to-be owners.

 

Good Listings – Once you have some information about the area and have found solid information about buying safely in Mexico, you can then proceed to browse through listings for properties in your price range that catch your interest.  In Mexico, there are no universal MLS listings, so it is worth taking some time to find good listings that reflect the variety of property types, locations and price ranges available.

 

Listing Bookmarks – This is a good tool to keep track of properties that catch your interest.  This way you don’t always have to go back through the entire listing to find that property you liked.

 

Discount Listings – There are brokers that keep a separate list for all price reduced properties.  This makes it easy to see all of Mexico’s best bargains in one spot.  Professionals who work in the market every day can easily identify great prices as they turn up and this, again, saves you a lot of work that would be tiring and time consuming, especially not knowing the market well.

 

E-Mail Notifications – Every time a new property meeting your criteria, or a new price reduction, turns up, you receive an e-mail letting you know.  Again, this saves you the trouble of going through listings over and over again just to see if there’s anything new.

The early part of the search process in Mexico is mostly different since you’ll be away from the market; these tools help to make searching at a distance easy.

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Region:  Mazatlan real estate Thomas Lloyd graduated from Purdue University Krannert School of Management with a degree in Management/Financial Option Investments. He has been living, investing, and working professionally in Mexico for over 15 years. A Mexican Certified Realtor he is the current president of TOPmexicorealestate, you can contact him at (512) 879-6546.

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