About these guides

How we write the guides

These guides are written in-house by the Vallarta Listings team, from primary Mexican sources, for readers making decisions from another country. This page explains who writes them, what they are built from, and what we will not publish.

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Who writes them

The Vallarta Listings editorial team — the same people who work these markets daily in Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit. Guides are published under a team byline rather than an individual one, and reviewed internally before publication. We have not attached an outside lawyer or notario as a named reviewer; if we do, that name will appear on the guides they review and on this page, and not before.

What they are built from

Primary law first: the Federal Civil Code, the civil codes of Jalisco and Nayarit, and the federal and state bodies a reader would actually deal with — PROFECO, CONDUSEF, the Registro Público de la Propiedad, the state prosecutors' offices. Every guide lists its sources with links, so a reader can check the statute rather than take our word for it. Where practice differs from what a statute implies, we say so and name it as practice.

How they are kept current

Each guide carries the date it was last reviewed, shown at the top of the article. Law, fees and local practice all move, and a guide with no date is a guide you cannot judge. Where something has changed since a guide was written and we have not yet caught it, tell us — corrections are the fastest route to a better page, and we would rather fix it than defend it.

What we do not publish

No unsupported statistics. No crime rankings or claims about which area is safest. No legal guarantees, and no promise of investment returns. And never that a listing is 100% verified — verification reduces risk, it cannot eliminate all risk, and a page that says otherwise is selling something. These guides are general information about how things work here, not legal or tax advice for your situation.

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Found something wrong?

If a guide is out of date, unclear, or wrong, tell us and we will fix it. That is more useful to us than it is inconvenient.

Contact the team

General education, not legal or tax advice. Requirements vary by state, municipality, notario, SAT office, and year — confirm current specifics with your Notario Público, an attorney, and a cross-border accountant before acting.