Acquisition & Entry
Buying property in Mexico — done right from the start
Owning starts with what you can prove — before you pay, not after.
Foreigners can and do buy property in Mexico every day — directly where the law allows it, and through a bank trust or a Mexican company near the coast and the border. What decides whether your ownership holds up isn’t the view or the price; it’s the paperwork, and the work done before your money moves.
Most of the trouble we see traces back to the same moment: money paid on a handshake or a “reservation” before anyone checked what was really being sold. Get that part right and the rest is straightforward. Skip it, and the problem surfaces later — when it’s expensive, or impossible, to undo.
What we do
- Check what you’re buying. Who really owns it, what’s owed on it, what’s registered against it, and whether the seller can actually sell. We verify it before you commit — because a clean-looking deal and a clean title are not the same thing.
- Know what you can legally own. Some land can’t be sold to a foreigner at all — ejido and “possession rights” parcels that never became a real, registrable deed. They turn up cheap and look like a bargain, and they end as money you can’t get back. We catch that before you’re in.
- Hold it the right way. Direct purchase where it’s allowed; a trust or a company where the location or your plan calls for it — set up for how you’ll actually use it and one day sell it.
- Move the money safely. How and when funds change hands decides whether a deposit is protected or simply gone. We structure the payments and the contract so your money isn’t exposed before the deal is real.
- Close it cleanly. The deed, the notary, the taxes and duties, the registration — so the title ends up complete, in your name, and on the public record.
Why us
The hard thing to accept is how much rides on one moment — the signing — and how little of it is built to look after the buyer. The agent is paid when the deal closes. The notary makes it official and gives it legal certainty, but stands between the parties, not on the buyer’s side.
So when you’re told you don’t really need your own lawyer, the role left empty is the one no one else in the room is playing: someone reading the deal only for you. If the title turns out not to have been clean, or the money moved too soon, the loss is the buyer’s to carry — not whoever urged the deal along. That’s why we stay independent: one interest, yours, from the first document to the registered deed.
Learn more. Read “Foreign Ownership of Real Estate in Mexico” and “Why You Need Independent Counsel, Not the Broker”.
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